Tart with pistachios

For : 6 persons
Difficulty: low

INGREDIENTS:

• 250 G pastry dough
• 1 kg apricots
• 120g flour
• 75 g butter
• 200g sugar
• 2 tablespoons chopped pistachios

PREPARATION:

Cut the apricots into slices and put them in a bowl with 100g of sugar, stir it and let to rest for 30 min. Put the flour in a bowl with the remaining sugar, the pistachios and the soft butter, and with the tip of your fingers work the mixture until you get the crumbs.

Roll the dough and use it to line a bowl ( 24 cm ) and princk it with a fork.Pour the drained apricots and above the dough crumbs.Bake it for 35-40 min at 180 degrees.

Let it to cool before serving,

Puff of fruit and vanilla pudding

For: 4 persons
Difficulty: low

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 fresh pasta dough
• 1 vanilla pudding
• 300g milk
• 1 melon
• 400 g raspberries
• 60 g shelled pistachios
• 1 yolk
• icing sugar

PREPARATION:

Line a rectangular mold with the dough, left on his card, and prick the bottom with a fork. Cover the dough with aluminum, fill it with dried vegetables and brush the edge with beaten egg yolk and a small cup of milk. Bake it for 15 min at 200 degrees.Eliminated the vegetables and aluminum and cook for another 5 min.

Prepare the pudding followinf the instruction of the pack, with the milk and sugar.Pour it into the dough and let it in the fridge. Blanch the pistachios, rinse the raspberries, clean the melon and cut the flesh into slices and mix everything.Distribute it on the vanilla pudding and serve with a light sprinkling of icing sugar

Cannoli siciliani

For : 10 persons
Difficulty: low

                                                  

                                                   INGREDIENTS :
For waffles:

• 200g flour
• 30 g cocoa powder
• 25g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 20g butter
• salt
• 1 spoon rum

         For stuffing :

• 1kg sweet cottage cheese
• 500g sugar
• milk
• vanilla
• cinnamon
• 100 g diced candied mixed
• 100 g plain chocolate into small pieces

For decoration: 

• reduced pistachio grit
• icing sugar

PREPARATION:

For the preparation of waffles you have to mixed in a bowl the flour,cocoa powder, the butter and eggs, add the rum at the end.Knead well until the mixture will not be homogeneous, then wrap it in plastic wrap and let it rest for half an hour. Then roll out the dough and cut into squares of about 10 cm per side,the wrap the squares into special metal tubes and fry in plenty of olive oil. Let it dry and after than take the special metal tubes.
For the stuffing, beat the sweet cottage cheese and sugar with the fork, stretch it with a can of milk and flavoring with cinnamon. Sieve and stir in the diced candied fruit and the pieces of chocolate. The stuffed pasta shells and sprinkle the out parts with chopped pistachio . Sprinkle externally with icing sugar.