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Pitta 'mpigliata (Traditional Christmas dessert from Calabria) Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Crust:
2 lbs flour
1 cup water
1 cup red wine
1 cup of extra virgin olive oil (or 1/2 cup of butter)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 oz baking powder
Stuffing:
honey
cinnamon
3 lemon peels
2 lbs walnuts
10 oz raisins
Directions:
Directions:
Mix flour, sugar and baking powder and knead slowing adding the water, then the wine a little at a time. Continue to knead adding the eggs, the olive oil (or butter), and keep kneading until the dough is elastic. Allow it to rest a little under a cloth. Prepare the stuffing with crushed walnuts, grated lemon peel, sugar, honey, the raisins that were reconstituted in water, and the cinnamon. In the video they use an Imperia pasta machine, but if you don't have one then use a rolling pin to obtain strips of 1/8 in thick dough that's about 4 inches wide. Finish the edges with a rolling pizza cutter to obtain a zig zag edge. Drizzle the honey down the middle of each strip of dough and add the stuffing. Fold over the edges to trap the stuffing inside, and roll the stuffed strips into rose shapes. Place the roses in an oven pan and cook in a preheated oven at 350 degrees F for about 40 minutes and VOILA!

 

 

 

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