Neapolitan Pastiera Made With Rice Flour

  1. Place the sifted flour on a work surface, cut the butter into pieces and rub the butter together with the flour by using your fingers, until it is of a flaky consistency.
  2. Make a well in the center and add the sugar, the eggs, the lemon peel, and a pinch of salt.
  3. Use a fork and beat the ingredients in the well, beginning to incorporate them with the flour, working quickly.
  4. Shape the dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap. and refrigerate it for at least an hour.
  5. Pour the cooked wheat into a saucepan with 200 milliliters of milk, a tablespoon of sugar, a pinch of salt and the shortening.
  6. Stir well and simmer it on low heat for approximately 10 minutes.
  7. Dilute the ricotta cheese in a bowl with 100 milliliters milk.
  8. Beat the 3 eggs with the sugar in a bowl.
  9. Add the ricotta cheese, candied fruits, orange blossom water, vanilla, and the slightly cooled cooked wheat to the egg mixture.
  10. Combine well, the mixture will be rather liquid.
  11. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius.
  12. Place the sheet of pie crust inside, covering the border as well and keeping some dough for the strips for the top of the pie.
  13. Pour the filling into the pie plate and add some strips of dough to the top in a grid pattern.
  14. Bake for approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes or until the surface is golden.
  15. Turn off the oven, let the pie cool inside with the oven door open.
  16. Once the pie has cooled completely, sprinkle it with powdered sugar.

rice flour, butter, sugar, egg yolks, salt, lemon peel, cups wheat, milk, shortening, ricotta cheese, eggs, candied fruits, orange blossom water, vanilla, powdered sugar

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Neapolitan-Pastiera-Made-with-Rice-Flour-518422 (may not work)

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