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Saturday, July 3, 2010
Pestinos
Pestinos is a Spanish sweet pastry. Pestinos means ' Don't Get On My Nerves'. This is a very delicate pastry made with butter and oil, it's really a melt in the mouth pastry. The pastry procedure is almost like a choux pastry but without eggs. I have also made a chilli chocolate sauce as a accompaniment for this, it's totally optional, you can leave it just with the syrup topping which is equally good as well.
Recipe adapted from Spanish recipes. To check out the original recipe click here
Makes 25 to 30
Ingredients:
Plain flour- 2 1/2 cups
Butter-2 tbsp
Sunflower oil- 3/4 cup
Orange juice-3 tbsp
Water-1/4 cup
Zest of 1 orange
Cinnamon powder-1/2 tsp
For the syrup:
Honey- 1/2 cup
Water- 1/4 cup
Zest of 1 lemon
Rose water- 1/2 tsp
For Chilli Chocolate Sauce:( Optional)
Dark Chocolate- 50 g
Butter- 2 tsp
Chilli flakes-1/4 tsp
Oil for frying the fritters.
Method:
Heat 3/4 cup of oil in a pan, add the zest of 1 orange, heat it for 2 minutes. Switch off the flame, let the oil cool down completely to room temperature.
In a saucepan add butter, orange juice and 1/4 cup of water. When the butter has melted add the cinnamon, stir well. Now add the flour all at once and then immediately add the oil, take it off from the flame. Stir vigorously until it forms a smooth dough. Cover the dough and let it rest for 1 hour.
Meanwhile make the syrup. Boil the honey , lemon zest and water for 5 minutes stirring continously until it reaches a syrupy consistency, finally add rosewater and switch off the flame.
To make the chocolate chilli sauce, heat the chocolate in a bowl placed on top a sauce pan simmering with water. When the chocolate has melted, add the butter and chilli flakes mix well. Take the bowl away from the saucepan and let it cool down.
Now start preparing the pastry. Dust the work surface with flour, roll out the pastry into a square, cut it into small 5 cm square. Turn the square like a diamond shape, join the two ends and seal it with water. Repeat with the remaining dough. Heat the oil in a pan, fry 2 to 3 pieces at a time until they turn golden brown in colour. Drizzle with the syrup, dust with icing sugar. If you are preparing chocolate sauce, drizzle some on top.
Serve warm or cold.
Note:
If your dough looks too crumbly or if it starts disintegrating in the oil, don't panic. You can resue your dough by adding more water and flour.
This recipe goes to the event A.W.E.D Spain hosted by Priya Mitharwal originally started by DK of Chef In You
all your baking recipes are awesome.. this one too!
ReplyDeleteummm.. thats really looking like melt in mouth... my mouth is watering....
ReplyDeletelooks interesting...perfectly done pestinos
ReplyDeleteA sweet delicacy :D
ReplyDeleteI have never seen these before. Your recipes are always outstanding, so I'll have to give these a try. I hope you are having a great day. Blessings...Mary
ReplyDeleteThank you Uma, Anisheetu, Krishnaveni, Yasmeen and Mary for your lovely sweet comments.
ReplyDeleteDroolworthy pastries, looks very tempting and delicious...
ReplyDeleteI have never seen this before...simply yum and new.
ReplyDeletewoww mouthwatering recipe dear!!
ReplyDeleteI like to bake at home. this one sounds new and looks tempting.
ReplyDeleteCute n delicious looking pastry
ReplyDeleteThese pastries look so scrumptious! Especially with the chili chocolate sauce. What a lovely treat!
ReplyDeletewow. looks so cute and you have done it so nicely. liked the addition of chilly flakes.yumm.
ReplyDeleteExcellent looking pestions. Would love to try it out at home soon. Thanks for the wonderful recipe.
ReplyDeleteDeepa
Hamaree Rasoi
looks delicious and very tempting dear :-)
ReplyDeleteTruly Delicious.. looks inviting dear.
ReplyDeletewow...that looks beautiful...would have definitely melted bhaiyya's heart ;)
ReplyDeletehey, i baked cream cheese pastry...it tasted awesome :)...as always ur recipes are easy to make and tastes good...keep up the good work :)
ReplyDeleteYour description itself makes me droll.Very yummy.
ReplyDeleteyes really melting.
ReplyDeleteThank you all foodies for your lovely sweet comments.
ReplyDeleteLooks wonderful...you make them so perfectly..
ReplyDeleteAyeesha, that really looks melt in the mouth kind. I would love it with chocolate chilli sauce :)
ReplyDeletei made these pestinos today and it was a real melt in the lips pastry!!!! tasted very good Ayeesha :)
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