Honey Drenched Christmas Fritters: Struffoli

Name: Honey Drenched Christmas Fritters: Struffoli
Prep time: 2 h 5 min
Cook time: 2 h 5 min
Total time: 2 h 5 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 6 eggs, plus 1 egg yolk; 828 milliliters flour; 473 milliliters honey; 1 lemon, zested and juiced, plus 1 lemon, zested; 1 Tbsp limoncello; 1 orange, zested; 946 milliliters canola or peanut oil, for frying; 1 teaspoons salt

Honey Drenched Christmas Fritters: Struffoli requires approximately 2 hours and 5 minutes from start to finish. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 10. One portion of this dish contains around 8g of protein, 12g of fat, and a total of 486 calories. If you have peanut oil, limoncello, honey, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free and vegetarian diet. It is perfect for Christmas.

Instructions

In a mixing bowl, place flour, eggs, yolk, zest of 1 lemon, orange zest, salt, and limoncello and mix well to form a firm dough, 8 to 10 minutes.

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Lemon Zest

Orange Zest

Limoncello

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Egg

Salt

Egg Yolk

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Mixing Bowl

Place in the refrigerator and allow to rest 30 minutes.

Remove from the refrigerator and cut golf ball-sized pieces of dough from the main batch.

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Dough

Roll each ball into a 1/2-inch thick dowel (rope) and cut each dowel into 1/2-inch pieces.

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Roll

Roll each piece into a ball and continue until finished with all dough.

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Dough

Roll

In a 12 to 14-inch skillet with at least 3-inch sides, heat the oil to 375 degrees F. Drop enough balls in to cover about half of the surface of frying oil and cook until dark golden brown. Use a slotted spoon to turn them regularly, and expect them to puff up while cooking. As they finish, remove them to a tray covered with paper towels, and drain well. This should take at least 5 batches.

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Cooking Oil

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Slotted Spoon

Paper Towels

Frying Pan

When all of the struffoli are cooked, heat the honey, lemon juice, and zest together in a wide 6 to 8 quart saucepan until quite warm, about 150 degrees F, and substantially thinner.

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Lemon Juice