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Showing posts with label lemon zest. Show all posts

Bollo Maimon from Salamanca (Bollo Maimón de Salamanca)

4 eggs
100 grams of sugar
1 tablespoon aguardiente
150 grams starch flour
1 grated lemon zest
olive oil
icing sugar for decoration







Break the eggs into a bowl. Add sugar and mix well. Add the aguardiente and grated lemon rind. The mixture should have a white color. 

Then add the flour starch little by litte with a spoon, and mixing well to combine until the flour is well mixed. 

Andalusian pestiños (Pestiños andaluces)


1 cup sherry wine 
1 cup olive oil 
3/4 of wheat flour 
1 tablespoon aniseed 
1/2 teaspoon sesame 
1/2 lemon zest
pinch of salt 
1 packet of yeast 
honey 
icing sugar 
cinnamon 
1/2 liter of oil for frying





In a frying pan heat 1 cup of olive oil over low heat. Lightly fry the sesame seeds, anise seeds and lemon peel. When the olive oil cool down strain and reserve the seeds.

In a large bowl, place the flour (as a volcano). Add inside the volcano the sherry wine, a pinch of salt, and gradually the 1 cup of the fried olive oil with the seeds but without the lemon peel. Finally add the packet of yeast, mix all the ingredients and let the dough rest for an hour. 

Easter Monas (Monas de Pascua)


For the sourdough 
70 gr water 
10 g of fresh yeast 
1 tablespoon sugar 
130 gr bread flour 

For the Mona dough  
600gr. bread flour 
4 eggs for the dough 
2 or 3 for boiling
160 gr sugar 
1 shot of anise liqueur 
100 gr butter  
Zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange 
Juice of 1 orange 
1 pinch of salt 
125 ml milk 
25 gr fresh yeast


For sourdough

This step will make you getting an spectacular result. Warm up the water and dissolve in it the yeast.

Mixed with the remaining ingredients and make a ball.
In a bowl of warm water to dip the dough ball. When you rise to the surface, about 10 minutes, we can continue the process of kneading the dough.

For the Mona dough  

To start melt butter over low heat. Take the foam from the top out. Let it cool. 

Warm up the milk a little. Add and dissolve the yeast.