ALSO FOR VEGETERIAN
Halloween is approaching: here are our witches! Emilian witches are fragrant pasta bundles, perfect to accompany all our dishes. These wonderful bundles made with flour, extra virgin olive oil and lard are crispy and extremely satisfying: perfect to accompany cheese, cold cuts, but also vegetables.
Like many of the best things, the recipe for Emilian Streghe was created by chance, when ovens were heated with wood and bakers would put a strip of dough greased with oil inside to test the temperature. Streghe are also very easy to make and keep very well for days, just put them in a tin box. If they go a little soft, just pop them in a hot oven for a few minutes and they will become crispy again.
Ingredients
300 g of flour 0
30 g of lard at room temperature
15 g of fresh beer yeast (or 4 g of dehydrated beer yeast)
salt
little extra virgin olive oil to brush the witches
Method
– Dilute the yeast in 150 ml of lukewarm water.
– Sift the flour on the planter, make the fountain and go to the diluted yeast and lick it in flakes.
– Knead vigorously for a few minutes and combine a salt shaved spoon when the pasta has taken hold. I drank a few more minutes, then make a ball and put it in a bowl of flour.
– Cover the bowl with a damp cloth folded in four and let it rise in warm place until doubling (an abundant hour).
– Remove a piece of pasta (about a third), flatten it slightly with your hands and pass it to the pasta machine through the thickest.
– Lightly drizzle the dough strip, doubling it and pouring it back to the first thick, then gradually through the others until the fourth to get a few strips (the pasta strip is doubled only the first time).
– Brush it with a toothed wheel and, as soon as it is ready, place it on two coated paperboard plates (in the photo, on a sheet of silpat).
– Switch on the oven by adjusting the thermostat to 200 °. Brush the witches with oil and dust them with a pinch of salt.
– Pass the first plate into the oven at temperature and cook the witches for 10 minutes. With the heat of the oven they swell as bearings and, when cold, they are pleasantly crisp.
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