Zeppole di Natale (Scauratielli)

Directions

  1. 1Pour water, white wine, sugar, grated lemon peel, and grated orange peel into a pot.
  2. 2Add a pinch of salt and stir.
  3. 3Bring the mixture to a boil.
  4. 4Once boiling, pour in all the zero-zero flour at once.
  5. 5Lower the flame and stir vigorously until the dough comes off the walls.
  6. 6Transfer the hot dough to a worktop lightly oiled with seed oil and work it immediately until smooth and homogeneous.
  7. 7Take a piece of dough, roll it out, and shape it into a twenty-centimeter roll, sealing the ends.
  8. 8Place all the shaped dough pieces on baking paper.
  9. 9Fry the wedges in hot seed oil until golden brown.
  10. 10Remove the fried wedges from the oil and place them on absorbent paper.
  11. 11Prepare the glaze by warming honey with grated orange and lemon zest.
  12. 12Dip the wedges in the warm honey mixture.
  13. 13Decorate with colored candies.
  14. 14Alternatively, coat hot wedges in sugar.

Ingredients

  • 400 ml water
  • 40 ml white wine
  • 60 grams sugar
  • 1 half grated peel of half a lemon
  • 1 half grated peel of an orange
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 250 grams zero-zero flour
  • enough for frying seed oil
  • to decorate honey
  • to decorate colored candies
  • to coat sugar for coating (optional)

Equipment

potfurnaceworktoprollbaking paperdeep fryerabsorbent papergrater

Tips

  • If you don't like honey, pass the wedges when they are still hot in the sugar.