Chifelini - Dumplings with Jam

This is a traditional Italian recipe from Trentino Alto Adige in particular of Trieste. Chifelini are a sort of dumplings filled with jam (strawberry or plum jam) prepared in Trentino Alto Adige for Carnival. The dough is characterized by the presence of potatoes and they can be fried of baked in the oven as I did here.

INGREDIENTS:

200 g of Potatoes

400 g of Flour

180 g of Butter

100 g of Sugar

25 g of brewer’s yeast

Milk

2 Eggs

1 Lemon

Strawberry jam or Plum jam

Icing sugar

PREPARATION TIME: 2 hours

COOKING TIME: 15 minutes

WINE: Moscato Rosa del Trentino

PREPARATION

Boil the potatoes, peel and mash them. Dissolve the brewer’s yeast in a little bit of milk (just the amount to dissolve the brewer’s yeast). Place on a table the flour, the mashed potatoes, the eggs, the sugar, the butter, the grated peel of a lemon and the brewer’s yeast dissolved in the milk. 

Mix all together until you obtain soft and homogeneous dough. 

Let the dough stand for about one hour. Preheat the oven at 180 degree. Afterwards roll out the dough in a thin pastry, 

cut the pastry in square of 5 cm side, place in the middle of each square pastry a teaspoon of jam and close the pastry in order to obtain a dumpling with the shape of a half-moon. 

Place a sheet of baking paper on the surface of a baking pan and put on it chifelini. 

Bake for 15 minutes. Sprinkle with icing sugar.

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Apple Cake

Apple cake is one of the easiest cakes to prepare that allows you to obtain a delicious dessert good for any type of occasions. Christmas is coming and apples can be used to prepare traditional Christmas desserts as strudel that is a one of the traditional desserts of Trentino Alto Adige. But if you have apples, not much time and you still want to obtain an excellent result you can follow the steps of this delicious Italian recipe to make your family very happy. You can also use this delicious recipe as a gift, it’s enough a good Christmas envelope and your friends will be really happy! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

INGREDIENTS (for 6 – 8 people):
150 g of Flour with yeast
200 g of Sugar
2 Eggs
100 ml of Milk
1 Kg of Apples
A pinch o salt
3 Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
A piece of butter for the pan

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 40 minutes

WINE: Passito di prosseco (White Wine)

PREPARATION
Beat the eggs and 150 g of sugar in a bowl with a wood-spoon.



Add the flour with salt and extra virgin olive oil to the eggs mixture, mix all together until you obtain homogeneous soft dough.



Add some milk little by little, stir and now prepare the apples.




Clean and peel the apples, cut them in square pieces and add them to the soft dough already prepared.




Now the mixture is ready to be cooked for this reason butter a pan of 24 cm of diameter and flour it removing the excess of flour, pour on it the mixture and sprinkle it with some sugar as shown in the picture below.



Bake at 180°C for 40 minutes until the surface is slightly golden, check the apple cake is good cooked using a spaghetto. Put the spaghetto in the middle of the cake remove it and if it is dry means that the cake is good cooked.
This is the delicious result:



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