Castagnole
the recipe
Ingredients
- 400 g Cakes and Fried Pastries Flour
- 100 g Potato starch
- 120 g Whole eggs
- 120 g Sugar
- 60 g Butter
- 14 g Baking powder
- 60 g Rhum 'o anice'
- 2 g Vanilla powder
- 1 pc Lemon
- 100 g Dry white wine
- (As needed) Salt
- (As needed) Peanut seed oil ‘for frying’
- (As needed) Icing sugar
Directions
- Mix the yeast, vanillin, grated lemon zest, flour, and potato starch thoroughly.
- pe the mixture into a mound on the work surface, make a well in the center, crack the eggs into it, and add the melted (and cooled) margarine, a pinch of salt, sugar, and liqueur.
- Knead well, adding white wine as needed to achieve a medium-consistency dough.
- Work it with the palms of your hands, then cut off a piece and roll it on the work surface into a cylindrical stick shape about 1.5 cm in diameter.
- Cut into small pieces and shape into hazelnut-sized balls.
- Repeat until all the dough is used.
- Heat plenty of oil and fry in small batches
- Serve with sweet white wine.