Chestnuts: what a passion! The best known sweet made from chestnut flour is, without a doubt, the castagnaccio! But with a pinch of imagination you can prepare countless other sweets, one better than the other! Today we will discover how to make shortbread biscuits with chestnut flour with a unique flavor!
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Identity Card of the Recipe
- 340 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
- 130 g of chestnut flour
- 70 ml of milk
- 40 g (2 medium) of egg yolks
- 40 ml of corn oil
- 80 g of brown sugar
- 15 g of pine nuts
- Vanilla essence
- 1 pinch of salt
- 4 g of baking powder
- 130 g of white flour of type 00
- 30 g of sultanas
Materials Needed
- Bowl
- Scale weighs food
- Sieve
- Baking plate
- Baking paper
- Cookie cutter
- Rolling pin
- Chopping board
- Knife
Preparation
- Soak the sultanas in warm water to soften them.
- Coarsely chop the pine nuts.
- Sift the chestnut flour and the white flour, add the brown sugar, a pinch of salt, the baking powder and the vanilla essence, then mix the powders.
- Mix the powders with the two egg yolks, the oil and the milk: add the pine nuts and the raisins softened and squeezed by the soaking water. Mix all the ingredients until you obtain a compact dough with a consistency similar to that of shortcrust pastry.
The alternative idea
As an alternative to pine nuts, other types of dried fruit can be used, such as hazelnuts, almonds or walnuts.
Wheat flour can be replaced with gluten-free flour (eg buckwheat flour): in this case, the dose of liquid must be corrected according to the consistency obtained.- Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to obtain a thickness of 4-5 mm.
- Using a cookie cutter with the shape of your choice, cut out the shapes and place the cookies on a plate lined with baking paper. Knead the scraps to get new cookies.
- Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 160-170 ° C for 15-16 minutes (to keep them soft) or for 20 minutes (to make crunchy cookies).
- Remove from the oven, leave to cool on the pan and serve. Store the cookies for a week, in a tin box.
Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
To turn chestnut flour biscuits into even more delicious sweets, try dipping them in melted, dark or white chocolate, then maybe add some chopped pistachios or coconut powder! Nobody will be able to resist!Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
Biscuits with Chestnut Flour are foods that belong to the group of dry pastry desserts.
They have a high energy intake, mainly provided by carbohydrates, followed by lipids and finally by proteins.
Carbohydrates are mainly complex, unsaturated fatty acids and peptides of medium-high biological value.
They contain a high dose of fiber and cholesterol.
They bring gluten and lactose; histamine and histamine-liberating foods are not significant.
Biscuits with Chestnut Flour are not suitable for diets due to metabolic pathologies and overweight; it is necessary to be careful (reduce portion and frequency of consumption) especially in case of type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertriglyceridemia, hypercholesterolemia and obesity. However, used instead of packaged ones, they can demonstrate many nutritional advantages.
They are to be avoided in case of celiac disease and severe lactose intolerance; on the other hand, they do not have major implications for "intolerance to" histamine.
They are suitable for the vegetarian philosophy but not the vegan one.
The average portion of Biscuits with Chestnut Flour is 30 g (about 100 kcal).
