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Cannoli
Cannoli is a traditional Sicilian dessert that has become popular throughout Italy and beyond — crispy dough tubes filled with sweet ricotta cheese cream.
90 min 520 kcal 6 serves Advanced🌿Vegetarian🇮🇹Italy★★★★★4.8· 6 reviews
Ingredients
ServingsMetric
- 250 gflour
- 30 gsugar
- pinchsalt
- 30 gbutter
- 1 egg
- 60 mldry white wine
- 1 tbspwhite wine vinegar
- 500 gricotta
- 150 gpowdered sugar
- 1 tspvanilla extract
- 50 gfinely chopped bitter chocolate
- zest of 1 orange
- vegetable oil for frying
- chopped pistachios and powdered sugar for decorating
Method
- Mix flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Add diced cold butter and knead until crumbs form. Add the egg, wine, and vinegar. Knead until smooth. Wrap in clingfilm and chill for 1 hour.
- Roll out the dough thinly (about 2 mm). Cut out circles with a diameter of 10-12 cm. Wrap each circle around a metal cannoli tube.
- Heat oil to 180°C. Fry the tubes until golden (1-2 minutes). Carefully remove from the metal moulds and cool.
- Mix together the ricotta, powdered sugar and vanilla. Add chocolate and orange zest.
- Fill cooled tubes with cream from a pastry bag. Dip the ends in chopped pistachios. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.
FAQ
They weren't fried long enough or the oil wasn't hot enough (should be 160–170°C). The dough also needs to be rolled very thin — 1–2 mm. Test with a small piece: it should sizzle immediately and float to the surface.
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Comments (2)
Come siciliano devo dire che la ricotta deve essere di pecora non di mucca!! E va scolata almeno 4 ore nel frigo altrimenti la crema è liquida. Ho notato che molti usano ricotta di mucca poi si lamentano che non viene.
I weigh every ingredient for cannoli instead of using cups. Baking is chemistry. An extra tablespoon of flour can push this from perfectly balanced to dense and heavy. A $15 scale pays for itself immediately.