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Christmas Calzoncelli recipe, the fried desserts of Basilicata – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

Christmas Calzoncelli recipe, the fried desserts of Basilicata


In the list of regional Christmas sweetswe find i shorts: also called “Christmas pastries”, they are prepared during the holidays throughout the country Basilicataespecially in the province of Salerno, in the Sannio Beneventano area and in Irpinia.

It’s about fried ravioli with sweet filling: the dough is made with flour, egg, lard sugar and is flavored with vanilla and cinnamon, while the filling is prepared with chickpeas And chestnuts passed through a food mill to which melted chocolate, sugar, cocoa, grated lemon zest, chopped mandarin peel and, to taste, some liqueur are added.

The closed ravioli are then fried in peanut oil and served with icing sugar. Try our recipe.

Chestnut calzoncelli – chestnut calzone recipe – Italian Cuisine

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Boil the chestnuts until the pears have softened, then chop them. Chop the toasted hazelnuts. Melt the dark chocolate in a bain-marie.
In a bowl combine all the obtained compounds and add sugar, cocoa, liqueur and coffee. Mix everything until a smooth and homogeneous dough is obtained.


Prepare the dough for the calzoncelli. Put the flour in a bowl, make a hole in the center and insert the eggs, sugar, lard and white wine. Knead until you get a homogeneous dough.

Now roll out the dough on a floured surface, obtaining a sheet with a layer of about 2 mm.
Obtain pasta discs. You can on the middle of the disks, in the center, a spoonful of stuffing; then cover with the remaining circles and close the edges well.

Then seal the edges with the prongs of a fork. Fry the calzoncelli in a pan with plenty of hot oil. Turn them over a couple of times until they are golden brown.


Raise them with a skimmer and place them on a plate covered with absorbent paper. Once cooled, sprinkle with icing sugar and serve.


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