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Cannoli Siciliani
- Prep time:
- 30 mins, plus 1 hr resting
- Cook time:
- 5 mins
- Serves:
- Makes about 12 cannoli
Crisp pastry with a creamy ricotta, chocolate and candied fruit filling makes a sublime Sicilian style dessert from Gennaro Contaldo
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Ingredients
- 250g plain flour
- 1 tsp Cocoa powder
- 1 tsp coffee, freshly ground
- 30g Butter, softened
- 25g Sugar
- 60ml White wine
- 1 Egg, beaten
- Olive oil, for deep-frying
- icing sugar, to decorate
For the filling:
- 600g Ricotta cheese
- 150g icing sugar
- 25g chocolate chips
- 50g candied fruits, finely chopped
Method
1. First make the filling. Place ricotta and icing sugar in a large bowl and whisk until creamy. Fold in the chocolate chips and candied fruits. Set aside.2. To make the pastry, place the flour, cocoa powder, coffee, butter and sugar in a large bowl and mix well together. Gradually add the wine and mix well until the mixture forms pastry dough. Form the pastry into a ball and wrap in cling film. Leave to rest for an hour.
3. Lightly flour a clean work surface and roll out the pastry to a thickness of about 3mm. With a round pastry cutter, cut circles with a diameter of about 7.5 cm and wrap around the tubular moulds, securing the edges with the beaten egg.
4. Heat the olive oil in a large pan to 180°C. Fry the cannoli until golden-brown. Drain on kitchen paper and gently remove the moulds.
5. Leave to cool, and then fill the cannoli with the ricotta mixture. Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve.
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View all comments (4)Excellent, for a bit of once in a while self indulgence, this cannot be beaten. What I like about this treat is that you can fool around with the precise filling and give folks exactly what turns them on. This is the best recipe that I have tried. One of my guests is a cordon-bleu chef/cook and she would not go home 'til I printed out the recipe....10/10. For the moulds, go to a hardware shop, buy a length of stainless steel tubing, B & Q do it cheap, get someone handy to saw it into short elngths and dress the ends, wash well. Last forever. Cost?? about four pounds. Five stars.
Where can I buy the tubular moulds - Lakeland do not sell them??
Where can I buy the tubular moulds?
Ciao..
Where can I buy the tubular moulds?
Grazie
Cervaro