Sicilian cannoli

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Sicilian cannoli
All you need:

For cannoli Shells

* 20 g of Pork lard

* 300 g of Plain flour

* A pinch of salt

* 160ml of Dry white wine

* 1 Egg yolk (for brushing)

* 20 g of Caster sugar

* 1 tsp of Cocoa powder

* ½ tsp of Ground coffee

For Filling:

* 2 lt. Groundnut oil for frying

* 275 g of Icing sugar some extra for dusting

* 75 g of Candied cherries

* 700 g Sheep milk ricotta

* 75 g of Mixed candied citrus peel

* 2 lt. Groundnut oil for frying

* 75 g of 70% Dark chocolate

* 25 g of Whole shelled pistachios

How to make:

* Sieve the flour with salt,ground coffee and the cocoa powder . Then add caster sugar, along with wine a little bit.

* Right after the initial stirring with he wooden spoon shift the dough on to a working space and knead.

* Wrap it with cling film and keep it in the fridge for 30-40 minutes.

* Lets prepare cannoli filling, just pass the ricotta cheese through a wide mesh sieve.

* Now place the mouli in a large bowl, so that all the processed ricotta cheese can be passed through the bottom grating disc.Add 275 g of icing sugar.

* Mix ricotta and sugar, add candied citrus peel along with the chocolate, it must be chopped not to fine powder.

* Stir well,cover it with cling film and place it in the fridge till the time comes to fill the cannoli.

* Then start making cannoli shells, using rolling pin or pasta machine, then make four equal parts of dough .

* Pass each and every dough with pasta machine roller,starting from the wider settings and keep going until you reach a 2 mm thickness,dnt forget to dust the dough.

* Place the dough sheets over the working space, now make so many shapes with cookie cutter.

* Now take the cannoli tubes with some oil coat their external side, then then discs should be wrapped around the cannoli tubes.

* Place the tube in the center of the disc, brush it with egg so that both sides get sticked, gently pressed the overlapped area.

* Then fry them in oil,make them golden brown and place them on kitchen paper, squeeze the tubes to take out cannoli shells.

* Now put candied cherries along with e pistachios to decorate dust them with icing sugar.

* Enjoy it with coffee!

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