Torta Pugliese Pasquale
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Course : Desserts
From: HungryMonster.com
Serves: 6
 

Ingredients:

---Crust:
1/2 Kilogram flour -- (1 lb)
200 Grams butter -- (7 oz)
200 Grams sugar
16 Grams baking powder -- (1 tbsp)
2 large eggs
1 Dash salt
---Filling:
300 Grams ricotta -- (10 1/2 oz.)
1 large egg
80 Grams sugar -- ( 3 oz)
100 Grams candied orange and citron (diced) -- (3 1/2 oz)
1 dash cinnamon
 

Preparation:

Preheat oven at 180°C. Filling: in a bowl, mix all ingredients in this order: ricotta, sugar, candied fruit, egg. Set aside. Crust: sift flour with sugar, salt and baking powder. Add butter, softened at room temperature and diced, and eggs. Knead. Grease and flour a baking pan and spread it with 4/5 of the dough. Pour in filling and level. Cut the remaining dough into stripes and put them on the filling, forming some crosses like a tart. Bake for about 1 hour. Serve cold.

 

Nutritional Information:

381390 Calories (kcal); 18410g Total Fat; (42% calories from fat); 260g Protein; 56357g Carbohydrate; 50229mg Cholesterol; 196140mg Sodium