Christmas Biscuits

This is the typical dessert that my grandmother prepares for the Christmas Eve and the Christmas Day. They are biscuits similar to ravioli and their filling is made with chestnuts, chocolate, coffee, milk, biscuits, raisins and candied fruits. This is the original recipe but if you want you can prepare a filling made only of chocolate, milk and biscuits.The preparation is a bit long but the result is delicious. Merry Christmas

INGREDIENTS FOR THE FILLING (for 10 people)

1 Kg of Chestnuts

250 ml of Milk

125 ml of Coffee

100 g of Chocolate

25 g of Raisins

30 g of candied citron

1 Orange

2 Tablespoons of Sugar

6 - 8 Biscuit

INGREDIENTS FOR THE DOUGH (for 10 people)

500 g of Flour

4 Eggs

80 g Butter

150 g of Sugar

1 Glass of milk

1 Pinch of salt

Extra virgin olive oil to fry

PREPARATION TIME: 1 hours and 30 minutes

COOKING TIME: 45 minutes

WINE: Moscato d’Asti (White Wine)

PREPARATION

Preparation of the filling: place the raisin in a bowl with water for about 15 minutes.

Peel the chestnuts, place them in a pan with some water and let them boil for about 30 minutes.

In the meantime make the coffee. When the coffee is ready place it in a pan, add the milk and the chocolate and let it melt.

Crumble the biscuits and add them to the coffee.

Then mince the raisin, the candied citron and add them to the coffee together with the grated peel of the orange.

When the chestnuts are cooked, let them cool, peel, blend them and add them to the coffee.

Mix all together and blend all in a mixer until you obtain a homogeneous mixture as shown in the picture below.

Preparation of the dough: place the flour and the sugar as a fountain over a worktop.

Add in the middle the eggs, the butter, the milk and the salt.

Knead for about 10 minutes until you obtain homogenous dough.

Then with the help of a rolling pin, roll the dough out on a worktop sprinkled with flour to a sheet of thin thick and with the help of a glass cut the pastry in discs.

Each biscuit is made of two discs of pastry one below and one over. Place the discs of the pastry on a worktop sprinkled with flour and put in the middle of them one teaspoons of the stuffing.

Then cover the stuffing with another disc and cut the border in triangles and raise one every two as shown in the following picture.

Place in a pan the extra virgin olive, lei it hot and fry in it he biscuits one at a time.

This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!