Thursday 22 September 2011

Fagotto alle pesche

If you are in a hurry and don’t have to much time to cook but still… you would like to eat a light dessert… try this “fagotto alle pesche”, (bundle with peaches)!
It’s wonderful! You can eat it hot or cold, alone or with some yogurt or whipped cream or crema pasticcera (custard).
Try it and let me know if you liked it!!

Ingredients for the pastry:
95 gr flour
50 gr butter
1 tbs sugar
1 tbs cold water


Ingredients for the filling:
12 gr amaretti
15 gr flour
10 gr sugar
1 ts cinnamon
2 peaches or apples or pears pr plums



Put in a bowl or in the blender, the flour, the butter cut in dices and the sugar. Blend it till you obtain …. crumbles…


Now, add the cold water and very rapidly mix the pastry till it’s smooth. Don’t work it more than it is necessary!!


Do a ball and put it in the fridge for at least 20 minutes (you can prepare it 1 or 2 days in advance and keep it in the fridge ready to use!


For the filling: crumble the amaretti and then add the flour, the cinnamon and the sugar.


Cut the peaches in slices and pour on them some lemon juice to prevent the oxidation of the fruit.
Now, roll out the pastry with the rolling pin (round or squared shape),


put in the centre (leaving a border of 4-5 cm all the way around the pastry) the mixture of amaretti, flour, cinnamon and sugar (it will be useful to absorb the juice of the fruit!), put the slices of peaches over this mixture,


and just pull the edges of the pastry toward the centre leaving an opening at the centre from which you can see the peaches.


It’s easier to understand how to do it looking at the picture!!!

Brush the pastry with some milk and pour on it some sugar.


Bake in the hot oven at medium temperature (180°C) for 10-15 minutes (it depends on how thick is your pastry!)


Buon appetito!