Tagliatelle Dolci di Carnevale - fried "tagliatelle" filled with sugar & orange zest, fried and dusted with icing sugar, a typical Italian Carnevale sweet.
Course
Dessert
Cuisine
Italian
Prep Time40minutes
Cook Time20minutes
Total Time1hour
Servings4
AuthorManuela Zangara
Ingredients
200gms– 1 ½ cup flour
2eggs
4tbspgranulated sugar
Zest of 1 orangegrated
Vegetable oil for deep frying
Icing sugar to serve
Instructions
Put the flour and eggs in a mixer and blend them until they become like breadcrumbs. Then pour the mixture onto a floured working surface and knead well until you get smooth dough.
Make it into a ball, cover it with cling wrap and keep it aside to rest for 30 minutes.
Roll the dough into a 2 mm – about 1/16 to 1/8 inch thick circle.
Sprinkle with the granulated sugar and grated orange peel.
Roll the dough on itself like a Swiss roll and, using a sharp knife, cut 1 cm – ½ inch slices, as if you were making real tagliatelle. Keep them aside without opening the “pinwheels”.
Deep fry them in batches in vegetable oil at 170°C – 340°F. When golden brown, put them on a plate covered with kitchen paper to drain the excess oil. Let them cool down.