The “scarcella” is the traditional Apulian Easter dessert. It’s not as fluffy as a cake, nor is it as firm as a cookie. It’s a mix of flour, eggs and sugar wrapped up in a soft dough that you can mold into the shape you desire. Popular forms include the egg or the dove, typical symbols of Easter. Ingredients (serves 6-8) 500 g flour 5 eggs, 3 of which...
Puglia Mon Amour wishes you a Happy Easter with this typical menu that belongs to the real Apulian tradition. FIRST COURSE: Baked pasta Click here for the recipe SECOND COURSE Roast lamb with potatoes Click here for the recipe or Lamb ‘a cutturiello’ Click here for the recipe You can pair the lamb with li puddhricasci Click here for the recipe Benedetto (blessed) This...
Chocolate eggs and colomba cakes are not the only sweets on Apulian tables on Easter lunch. Almond paste lamb is a traditional dessert born at least in the ‘800s. Salento bakeries work very well with almond paste all year around, but during Easter time they create true edible works of art. And some try to make this dessert at home. Let’s see how to make it. Ingredients For...
The filled wafers (‘ostie ripiene’) are a typical sweet of Monte Sant’Angelo, a small town in Gargano are, in northern Puglia. It is a dessert consisting of low fat ingredients and energy (almonds and honey) and the sacramental bread. The wafers are thin and crispy and you can find them in the grocery stores or in the bakeries. Their story is really curious....
Ingredients Pastry 500 grams of flour 250 grams of lard * 200 grams of sugar 3 eggs 1 pcs. ammonia for cakes or 1 teaspoon of yeast 2 lemons ( peel ) * We recommend the use of lard. It is the secret of this traditional recipe. You can replace it with butter, but the result will be different. Custard 1 liter of fresh milk 6 eggs (3 eggs + 3 yolks ) 6 tbsps flour 5...
Here is the menu that we suggest for Easter Monday. Happy Easter! Appetizer: fresh fish and sea urchins. FIRST COURSE: Peas and lamb soup Click here for the recipe SECOND COURSE: Spit-roast lamb pieces in the fireplace Click here for the recipe DESSERT: Taralli with julep Click here for the recipe Homemade liquor (rosolio) Click here for the recipe Click here for...
