Pastiera Napoletana ( Italian Wheat & Ricotta Pie)

 Last week I ate it in a restaurent as a dessert, This was a good, standard italian  grain pie recipe. 
Classically, it is made only in Easter... but I decided to make it in christmas... Sue me!

You will need those stuff

Heat the first three ingredients

Cream the ricotta and sugar

Add all other ingredients except the candied peel

Add the wheat mixture to the ricotta one

Line your pan with the pasta frolla

Make your strips

Add the candied peel and pour into the pan

E Voilà !!!!

Pastiera Napoletana ( Italian Wheat & Ricotta Pie)

Ingredients

• Pasta Frolla * Sweet pastry Dough:
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 stick unsalted butter ( cold)
• 2 egg yolks
• 2-3 tablespoons water
• The filling:

1. 250 gm Cooked Wheat Kernels ( canned) or you can cook it yourself.
2. 100 ml milk
3. 1/2 cups sugar
4. 350 gm whole milk ricotta
5. 1  cup sugar
6. 2 large eggs
7. 2 egg yolks
8. 1 teaspoon orange flower water
9. 1/2 cup diced candied orange peel
10. 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
11. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• Egg wash: One egg well beaten with a pinch of salt

Directions

1. For the Pasta Frolla, combine dry ingredients in food processor and pulse to mix. Cut butter into 8 pieces and add. Pulse to mix in finely. Add eggs and water then pulse until dough forms a ball. Remove from work bowl, wrap and chill dough.
2. Drain the wheat and place in a pan with numbers 2 and 3 of the filling over medium heat till it forms a creamy mixture and all milk is absorbed. Let it cool completely.
3. For the filling, place ricotta in a mixing bowl and stir in the sugar, eggs and remaining ingredients. Stir in the cooked wheat kernels.
4. Preheat oven to 300 degrees, 150 c. Butter a 9-inch (20 cm) cake pan or a piriform one, 2-inches deep. To assemble, cut off 1/4 of the Pasta Frolla and reserve it. Roll the 3/4 of the dough into a 14-inch( 30 cm) disk and line the prepared pan with it. Allow the dough to hang over the edge of the pan. Pour in the filling and sprinkle it with the cinnamon. Roll the remaining 1/4 of the dough into a 20 cm square. Cut it into 10 1-inch wide strips. Paint the strips with the egg wash. Moisten the rim of the dough on the pan with the egg wash, and adhere 5 strips in each direction, forming a diagonal lattice. Trim away any excess dough even with the top of the pan and push the dough all around off the top rim of the pan so that it is completely within the pan.
5. Bake about 60-90 minutes 8 checl after one hour), until the filling is set and the pastry is light golden. Cool in the pan before unmolding. To unmold, invert onto a flat plate, lift off the pan, replace the pan with another plate or platter, then re-invert, so that the Pastiera is right side up. Serve the Pastiera at room temperature.

Enjoy!

Mushroom & Ricotta Pie

Where do I begin !

I invented this recipe and it came out ...super yummy!

Let's get to the ingredients...

• You will need :
• 1 recipe ready-made pie crust.
• 200 gm ricotta cheese
• 1 egg
• 3 TB milk.
• 50 gm parmigiano regiano cheese 
• 6 large fresh mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
• one onion, sliced
• fresh and dried herbs of your choice.
• spring onions , the green parts.

 How to :

•  Preheat your oven to 180 c
• Blind bake your pie crust, in case  you don't know how to watch this video
• I skipped that step above :)
• sautee your pnions with the mushrooms until tender
• mix your cheese with the egg and milk
• add some salt and pepper,
• put the mushroom onions mix on the pre-baked pie crust 
• add your cheese mix and herbs.
• bake for another 30 minutes.
• Enjoy !

Basic Pie crust:

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup shortening, chilled
• 3 tablespoons ice water

Directions

1. Whisk the flour and salt together in a medium size bowl. With a pastry blender, cut in the cold shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Drizzle 2 to 3 tablespoons ice water over flour. Toss mixture with a fork to moisten, adding more water a few drops at a time until the dough comes together.
2. Gently gather dough particles together into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap, and chill for at least 30 minutes before rolling.
3. Roll out dough, and put in a pie plate. Fill with desired filling and bake.