If I show you a glass of Tuscan vin santo, what comes to your mind? I immediately think that this wine is ideal for soaking hard biscuits, biscuits with a strong flavor, rustic biscuits such as cantucci, a true delight typical of the Tuscan tradition based on flour, eggs, almonds and sugar! .
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Identity Card of the Recipe
- 321 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
For about 60 nooks
- 330 g of white flour type 00
- 100 g of almonds
- 120 g (2 medium) of eggs
- Peel of untreated oranges
- 40 ml of aniseed liqueur and 1 teaspoon of aniseed
- 140 g of sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder or ammonium bicarbonate
To brush
- 60 g of eggs
Materials Needed
- Bowl
- Scale weighs food
- Pastry board
- Sieve
- Baking tray
- Baking paper
- Knife
Preparation
- In a bowl, sift the white flour and add the sugar, the orange zest, the aniseed, the salt and the ammonium bicarbonate. Now add the whole almonds (with the skin).
The alternative Ok
As an alternative to ammonium bicarbonate, you can use the same amount of baking powder or a pinch of bicarbonate and lemon.- Mix all the ingredients with the anise (liqueur) and the eggs. Knead until you get a soft and non-sticky dough. If necessary, add more flour.
- Preheat the oven to 190 ° C.
- Divide the dough into 5 pieces to obtain long and rather thin cords. Arrange the loaves on a plate and brush the surface with the remaining egg.
- Cook the loaves of pasta at 190 ° C for 15 minutes.
- Quickly remove the cookie strings from the oven. Wait a couple of minutes to avoid getting burned, then cut the cords into pieces, diagonally to obtain the typical shape of the nooks.
- Bake again by lowering the temperature by 20 ° C and let the biscuits dry for another 10-12 minutes.
- Remove the biscuits from the oven, let them cool and serve with the vin santo.
Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
Cantucci can be kept for a very long time, even for more than a month, as long as they are well preserved in tin containers. You can prepare them in time, accompany them with other sweets such as ricciarelli or canestrelli, and give them to your loved ones for Christmas!Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
Cantucci biscuits without butter are biscuits similar to traditional ones; these are sweet foods, with a fairly high energy intake provided essentially by carbohydrates. Proteins are not abundant and lipids are within the norm. The prevalent fatty acids seem to be unsaturated ones and cholesterol is quite relevant, as is dietary fiber.
Cantucci Cookies Without Butter are foods not recommended in case of overweight and metabolic diseases; moreover, as they contain gluten, they do not lend themselves to the diet for celiac disease.
The average portion is around 20-30g (65-100kcal).
