August 1, 2014

Crostata della Nona di Giulia

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 IMG_1008Today is a very special Fiesta Friday for me. I have completed my first year of blogging (I cannot believe it), one year of sharing recipes with you, connect with people from different countries. I have discovered a fascinating world of cooking with a true passion. I don’t know how many recipes I bookmarked already, and how many times my eyes drooled in front of the screen. I just love cooking, it’s always a real pleasure and more when I received friends at home.

Thank you, Angie from The Novice Gardener  for your enthusiastic Fiesta Friday and big thanks to our Australian Co-Hostesses Margot from Gather and Gaze  and Saucy from Saucy Gander for hosting our fiesta this week!

Today I chose to cook the Crostata della Nona di Giulia, posted on Polianthus blog. This beautiful Crostata made me dream all week, and so I have decided it was the best way to celebrate with you!

Serves 8

Ingredients: (For the crust)

  • 300g of plain flour/all purpose flour
  • 100g of icing sugar (I use icing sugar instead of 150g of white granulated sugar as mentioned in the original recipe)
  • 150g of soft butter
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • A pinch of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 1 egg

Procedure:

  1. In a large bowl add the flour, the icing sugar, the zest of 1 lemon and the baking powder.
  2. Start to sift and add the soft butter.
  3. Mix with your fingers and add 1 egg.
  4. Mix until you assemble the dough.
  5. Wrap the dough in a plastic wrap and keep it in the fridge for 1 hour (for me).
  6. Grease a tart pan.
  7. Roll your dough between two big sheets of parchment paper or plastic wrap.
  8. With a rolling pin, flatten the dough and make a circle shape, the size of your tart pan (keep a little of the dough to make a lattice on the top of the Crostata for decoration – as seen in the pictures)
  9. Peel off the parchment paper from one side or your plastic wrap, flip the dough over the tart plate and slowly remove the other parchment paper or your plastic wrap.
  10. With a fork, poke the bottom of your dough and set aside.

Ingredients: (For the filling)

  • 60g of white granulated sugar
  • 60g of soft butter
  • 60g of Almond powder (I don’t have almond flour as mentioned in the original recipe, I used almond powder)
  • 1 egg
  • 300g of Jam (I opted for a delicious Quetsches jam/Plum jam from Alsace, a region close to Germany and Switzerland). Plums are ideal to make tart/crostata in this season.

Procedure:

  1. In a bowl add the almond powder and 1 tablespoon of sugar from the 60g of sugar.
  2. Mix with a fork and set aside.
  3. In another bowl add the rest of the sugar, the butter, and 1 egg.
  4. Pour the mixture of the first bowl (almond powder & sugar) into the second bowl.
  5. Mix with a fork all the ingredients (the cream becomes unctuous).
  6. Pour the mix of the almond and sugar and continue to mix until all blended together.

Final procedure:

  1. Preheat the oven to 180C degrees.
  2. Spread to the bottom of the crust the filling (don’t forget the corner/edges).
  3. Add the jam on the top.
  4. With the rest of the dough, cut stripes and put them on the Crostata (as seen in pictures).
  5. Bake for 45 minutes, remove from the oven when the crust is golden brown, allow to cool for 1 hour.
  6. Serve with a hot strong Italian coffee.

This Crostata is tasty, sweet and delicious, and received stellar comments from the whole family!

Bon Appetit.

PS: Make sure to visit all these wonderful bloggers this week.

PSS: Thank you to my family, my friends and my loyal followers for your continuous support during this first year of blogging, here is a picture of my favorite post of each month of my blogging year 🙂

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