Stuffed Pastries From The Marches

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 5 egg yolks, beaten
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• grated lemon zest
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 pinch ground cinnamon
• 1 grated lemon, zest of
• 1 cup rum
• 3 ounces semisweet chocolate, grated
• 3 ounces shelled almonds, ground
• 1 lb ricotta cheese

Recipe

• 1 for pastry:.
• 2 heap the flour on a board and make a well in the center.
• 3 put in the egg yolks, butter, sugar and a little lemon zest.
• 4 knead quickly to obtain medium-soft dough.
• 5 roll into a ball, wrap in plastic and chill for 1 hour.
• 6 for filling:.
• 7 in a bowl, beat the egg yolks (reserving a little for brushing the pastries), sugar, cinnamon, lemon zest, rum, chocolate and almonds into the ricotta.
• 8 the mixture should be thick.
• 9 roll the dough out thinly.
• 10 cut into 3 in circles.
• 11 put 1 teaspoon of the filling in the center of each circle and fold the dough over into a half-moon shape, pressing with your fingers to seal the edges well.
• 12 preheat the oven to 300 degrees f.
• 13 put the pastries onto a buttered baking sheet and brush them with the reserved beaten egg.
• 14 bake in the oven until a toothpick inserted into one of them comes out dry.
• 15 about 20 minutes.