How to make Pastiera Napoletana...

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Pastiera Napoletana

Ingrediants:

500 g Frozen short pastry

500 g Ricotta cheese

200 g Sugar

220 g Pre-cooked wheat

40 g Candied citron

40 g Candied orange

A pinch cinnamon

2 dl milk

30 g Butter

5 Eggs

50 g Confectioner’s sugar

1 Lemon Salt

Method:

Defrost the pastry at room temperature. Pour the wheat, the milk, the butter and the grated peel of ½ lemons into a saucepan and let them cook for 10 minutes, stirring often.
Sieve the Ricotta cheese and mix it with sugar, cinnamon, and the grated peel of ½ lemons, cubed candied fruit and salt. Add 4 yolks, the wheat cream and 3 whipped whites, stirring in the meantime.
Grease a baking pan (24 cm in diameter) with butter and line it with the short pastry, after having rolled it out with a rolling pin (until it becomes approx. ½ cm thick). Cut the exceeding pastry, roll it out and form some little stripes. Pour the mixture into the baking pan, flatten it, fold the pastry borders inwards and then arrange the stripes upon it forming a grid.
Brush it with a beaten yolk and put the cake into the oven at 180° for 1 hour and a half.
Let it cool and dust the cake with confectioner’s sugar before serving.