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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 60 Minutes |
Ready In: 60 Minutes Servings: 12 |
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This is the most typical Neapolitan Christmas dessert dish, in Naples is not Christmas if you don’t have your share of struffoli. I think the reason why they are made only at Christmas is that you don’t really want to spend all that time making struffoli more than once a year. Read more . I made them in USA for the first time last Christmas and I wish I never did, all the friends that tried them asked me to make some more, I ended up making struffoli for three days in a row!!!! Ingredients:
for the dough |
4 cups of multipurpose flour (600 grams) |
4 whole eggs and one egg yolk |
2 tablespoons of sugar |
6 tablespoons of butter (80 grams) |
half a glass of rhum (white wine is ok too) |
the zest of half a lemmon, grated |
a pinch of salt |
oil to fry (vegetable oil is great (soybean) but also peanuts oil or olive oil are very good, crisco is ok if you don’t care about the trans fats) |
for dressing |
7 oz of sugar (200 grams) |
7 oz of honey (200 grams) |
for the decoration |
color snowflake decors |
powder sugar |
Directions:
1. Mix together the ingredients for the dough (except the oil to fry) to obtain a dough. (I have the dough blade in my food processor and that’s what I use but you can knead the dough by hand)
2. If the mixture is too dry and doesn’t stick together just add milk (a tablespoon at the time)
3. Once you have reached the right consistency (like pie crust dough) put the dough in a cling wrap foil and let it rest for half an hour
4. Divide the dough in balls of the size of an orange
5. Roll each ball on a wood surface on which you have springled flour, to obtain long strings of dough as shown in the pictures
6. Cut the string to obtain little balls of the size of a peas
7. Fry the dough balls a few at the time and let them rest on paper to absorb the excess oil
8. One all the balls (called struffoli) are fried, in a tall pan mix honey and sugar together and let the sugar melt while you continue stirring with a wood spoon.
9. Once the honey and sugar have turned liquid turn the fire off and pour the struffoli in the pan, mix vigorousely.
10. Pour the hot mixture on a plate and with your wet hands give them the shape of a big donut as shown in the picture
11. Sprinkle the powder sugar and sugar decoration on top
12. Serve cold
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