Pastiera: how to make the traditional Neapolitan cake for Easter!

Name: Pastiera: how to make the traditional Neapolitan cake for Easter!
Uploaded: 2019-04-17T15:31:36Z
Duration: PT191.890S
Channel: Cookist

published on 17 April, 2019 at 17:31

Pastiera is a famous Italian ricotta pie baked for Easter. It's too good to not try, here's the recipe step by step!

For two:

INGREDIENTS

For the pastry

500g flour

200g of unsalted butter

200g sugar

2 eggs

For the filling
zest of lemon

450ml milk

500g cooked wheat

salt

500g ricotta cheese

400g sugar

limoncello

5 eggs

2 egg yolks

METHOD

1. Make the pastry by mixing in a bowl with your hands the butter with the eggs, the sugar and the flour. Then put the pastry in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
2. Boil the cooked wheat in the milk and the butter and add the lemon zest. Cook for 30 minutes and let it rest.
3.Mix the drained ricotta cheese with the sugar, the eggs and the liquor.
4. Pull out the pastry from the refrigerator and roll it out in a pan cake. Mix the ricotta mixture with the wheat and pour everything on the pastry. Use the remaining pastry to create the strips and add them on the surface of the pastiera cake sealing them for good at the edges.
5. Bake at 170° for 60 minutes.

6. Turn off the oven and leave to cool in the pan.

7. Take it out when cold and if possible wait 24 hours before eating.