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Calabrian Christmas desserts, a triumph of goodness in 3 recipes – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay

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In Calabrian Christmas desserts the protagonists are them: raisins, figs, dried fruit, citrus fruits, cooked wine and much more honey. These are some of the main ingredients with which the Christmas sweets from Calabria. Like any self-respecting typical dish, even in this case the recipes vary slightly from country to country and even from family to family. But not the tradition: that always remains the same. And so on the holiday tables of Christmas in Calabria cannot be missing mostacciolii petrals or the pitta ‘nclosed or pitta ‘mpigliatato name just a few.

Calabrian Christmas sweets

The mostaccioli

From weddings to baptisms up to Christmasi mostaccioli in Calabria they have always been synonymous with celebration. Made with simple ingredients, they are famous for their hard consistency and why they keep for a long time.

Ingredients

  • 500 g of Flour 00
  • 500 g of wildflower honey
  • 10 g of yeast powder for sweets
  • 3 yolks of egg

Method

  1. Once the flour has been sifted into a bowl, add the yeasti yolks and a part of honey. At this point mix the ingredients, add the remaining part of honey and mix everything together.
  2. Transfer the mass on a pastry boarddivide it into equal parts of approximately 100 grams each and shape into a loaf or according to the preferred form.
  3. Arrange the mostaccioli on a baking tray covered with baking paper and bake at 180° for 35-40 minutes. Once baked, brush them still warm with honey and decorate them with gods colored sweets.

The petrals

TO Reggio Calabria they really can’t be missed at Christmas: they are the petralssmall shortcrust pastry crescents with a dessert dried fruit based filling.

Ingredients

For the dough

  • 500 g of Flour
  • 3 egg
  • 200 g of sugar
  • 100 g of butter
  • half a sachet of yeast
  • half a sachet of vanilla
  • grated zest of a lemon.

For the filling (which should be prepared two days in advance)

  • 250 g of dried figs
  • 140 g of almonds
  • 100 g of nuts
  • 100 g of raisins
  • cinnamon
  • the peel of one orange and of a mandarin
  • coffee
  • cooked wine
  • 2 tablespoons of bitter cocoa

For the decoration: a egg And sugars colourful.

Method

  1. On a pastry board, make a well with the flour sifted with the yeast. Place the eggs in the center, start mixing and gradually add the sugar, vanilla and grated lemon zest.
  2. Mix everything together to form a homogeneous mixturewrap it in cling film and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour.
  3. In the meantime, chop the figsput them in a bowl, pour a cup of sweetened coffeeThe wine cooked and let them soften.
  4. Also chop the walnuts, almonds, orange and mandarin peel. Add the raisins, a pinch of cinnamon and the bitter cocoa to this mixture. Mix and leave to rest in the refrigerator.
  5. On a pastry board, roll out one thin sheet of shortcrust pastry from which to derive gods 10 centimeter discs in diameter. Place a spoonful of filling on half of each and close the other half. When all the crescents are ready, bake at 180° for approximately 10 minutes. Once baked, brush the surface with beaten egg and decorate with colored sugar balls.

Pitta ‘impigliata o ‘nchiusa

Another typical Calabrian dessert that is prepared in Christmas it’s at Easter and the pitta ‘mpigliataoriginally from San Giovanni in Fiore and very widespread throughout the province of Cosenza. In that of Catanzaro it is known, instead, by the name of pitta ‘nclosed. Even in this case it is one puff pastry filled with a filling of dried fruit and honey.

Ingredients

For pasta

  • 500 g of Flour 00,
  • 2 egg
  • 100ml of extra virgin olive oil
  • 100ml of wine Sweet
  • 100 ml of freshly squeezed juice orange Sweet
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • a small glass of Vermouth
  • cinnamon
  • the peel of aorange
  • a sachet of yeast in powder
  • a pinch of salt.

For the stuffing

  • 250 g of honey
  • 200 g of kernels nuts
  • 200 g of sultanas
  • 60 g of pine nuts
  • a pinch of nails of carnation in powder
  • one of cinnamon
  • the grated zest of aorange
  • one of lemon
  • a small glass of Vermouth

Triumph of stuffed pasta in 16 recipes – Italian Cuisine


There stuffed pasta is one of the greatest expressions of theskills and of creativity in the kitchen. Ravioli, tortelli, tortellini, plin, cappelletti, casoncelli: the embarrassment of the choice doesn't concern only the various types of pasta, but also the stuffed which can provide the most disparate ingredients. The cold evenings that await us with the arrival of autumn and then winter are an opportunity to stay at home and prepare with all the time necessary, perhaps all together in the family, the recipes you prefer. Some of the ones we offer now use seasonal ingredients like mushrooms and pumpkin, others include the preparation of a broth, others a particular ingredient like cocoa and mustard. So get ready, apron and go!

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Recipe Triumph with orange – Italian Cuisine – Italian Cuisine


  • 5 eggs
  • 140 g sugar
  • 100 g flour 00
  • 30 g potato starch
  • 20 g bitter cocoa
  • 500 g milk
  • 250 g dark chocolate
  • 120 g sugar
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 20 g of cornstarch
  • 200 g granulated sugar
  • 80 g Grand Marnier type liqueur
  • 100 g chocolate gianduia
  • 100 g dark chocolate
  • whipped Cream
  • powdered sugar
  • currant

For the recipe of the triumph with orange, whisk the eggs with the sugar until you get a frothy mixture: it will take at least 15 minutes. Sift twice the 00 flour with the starch and the cocoa and incorporate them in the foam of eggs stirring from bottom to top very gently so as not to disassemble it. Pour the mixture into a greased and floured cake tin (22-24 cm in diameter) (it should fill it not more than three quarters of the height). Bake at 190 ° C for about 20 minutes. Remove the sponge cake, leave it to cool, free it from the mold and let it cool on a wire rack.
For the chocolate cream: Break up the chocolate. Bring the milk to a boil. Mix, in order, sugar, corn starch and finally yolks. Pour the boiling milk over the mixture of egg yolks and cook, always stirring, until you get a cream. Pour it immediately, still boiling, on the chocolate and stir until it is completely melted. Let it cool, then refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
For the bagna: bring to the boil 300 g of water with the sugar, remove from the heat, let it cool, then add the liqueur.
To complete: make lots of dark chocolate curls and other larger ones of chocolate gianduia and cut into three parts the sponge cake. Brush the first layer with the wet. Distribute a layer of chocolate cream, put the second slice of sponge cake on top and repeat the operations until the last slice of sponge cake. Completely cover the cake with the chocolate cream with the help of the spatula (if the cream should be too thick, weigh it and add the same amount of whipped cream); cover the edge with the dark chocolate curls. Decorate the surface with a round of whipped cream, put the large curls of chocolate gianduia in the center and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Complete with a few sprigs of currant and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving.

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