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 PASTIERA'S RECIPE

Ingredients for the Pastiera for 12 people:

  • 1 kg pre packed frozen short pastry (if you want to make it at home click here for the recipe)

  • 700 gr ricotta cheese

  • 600 gr sugar

  • 400 gr of boiled wheat ( you can easily find cans in any supermarket)

  • 80 gr crystallized citron

  • 80 gr crystallized orange

  • a dash cinnamon

  • 100 gr milk

  • 30 gr butter or lard

  • 5 eggs and 2 egg yolks

  • a spoon full of vanilla

  • a spoon of orange flavoured water

  • 1 lemon

Preparation:

Let the short pastry defrost in room temperature, pour the wheat, the milk, the butter and 1 lemon grated peel in a casserole pan; let it cook for 10 minutes and often stir the ingredients til they become cream.

In another pan whip the ricotta cheese, the sugar, 5 eggs, 2 egg yolks, a spoon of vanilla, a spoon of orange flavoured water, and a dash of cinnamon. Mix everything until the dough is very thin.

Then add some grated lemon peel and diced crystallized orange and citron. Mix everything to the wheat. Spread either the homemade or frozen short pastry with a pin until it’s ½ cm thick. Put the short pastry in a 30 cm wide pan, but make sure you spread some butter on it before.Cut the exceeding edges off, spread them with a pin and cut the short pastry in strips. Pour the mixture of the ricotta cheese and the other ingredients in the pan, and fold the borders of the short pastry inwards. Then put the short pastry strips on the ingredients. Dust the Pastiera with icing sugar before serving.