Christmas Zeppole Recipe

Place the flour salt and sugar in a bowl.

Christmas zeppole recipe. I followed the recipe exactly but next time i ll increase the sugar to 1 tbsp. Zeppole for christmas recipe rossella s cooking with nonna. I used caputo red 00 flour i wanted it to have that light texture with the crispy outside. Zeppole recipe the word z eppoli is italian dialect for zeppola the plural is zeppole.

I usually opt for the ring shaped bagel leaving just a bit of dough to create ball shaped zeppole to fill with nutella or cherry jam. In a small bowl add the yeast sugar and salt to the water. In a large mixing bowl combine the flour yeast mixture and olive oil. You can find where to order some for yourself in my post about affetto italiano delivery.

As others have suggested. The recipe calls for the dough to rise for 1 hour and 30 mins. I have never eaten zeppole before but i thought these were good and pretty easy to make. Let stand until creamy about 2 minutes and stir to dissolve the yeast.

Zeppole are an exquisite result of a dough made with flour and boiled mash potatoes the key ingredient to give extra softness to the batter. You can shape the dough any way you want. I tweaked the recipe a bit. From amalfi with love mamma agata s famous christmas zeppole recipe zeppole di mamma agata this recipe is a favourite treat in mamma agata s home in ravello italy on the beautiful amalfi coast.

Mix together and after the yeast is ready pour the water and yeast mixture into the bowl along with the juice and peel and mix by hand until a very sticky dough forms if using rum soaked raisins add them at this time. However i let mine rise for about. Put the yeast in the water and set aside for 5 minutes. Zeppoli are deep fried dough balls or fritters that can be made savory or sweet and are often made on saint joseph day in various parts of italy made specifically as as sfinge or a cake on march 19th.