The recipe for susamielli, one of the most popular Neapolitan Christmas sweets!
Flavored with "pisto", an original blend for cakes made with cinnamon, nutmeg and a pinch of pepper, we can not resist Susamielli's crispness, so we suggest the recipe.
These biscuits in the shape of "S" are part of the wide selection of Christmas Neapolitan sweets traditionally prepared for Christmas. The original recipe seems to have originated from the convents of the province of Campania: the nuns prepared these sweets to perfume the festive prayers.
There is no Christmas without traditional sweets and the susamielli can not miss!
Ingredients
- 300 gr flour 00
- 300 gr millefiori honey
- 150 gr toasted almonds
- 100 gr granulated sugar
- 20 gr pisto (chopped spices including cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, pepper)
- 30 gr cubes of cocozzata and candied citrus fruit
Preparation
Finely chop the almonds and mix them with the flour, sugar and the mixture of spices arranging everything in a fountain on a pastry board. Melt the honey in a saucepan, then pour it into the center of the fountain. Work vigorously to obtain a hard and homogeneous paste. Let rest the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
Add to the dough, after having lightly worked with your hands, the candied fruit reduced into small pieces. Obtained from the mixture of long salamis around 10 centimeters and wide 2 centimeters. Arrange them in the shape of "S" on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, crushing them lightly.
Cook the susamielli in a preheated oven a 180 ° for 20 minutes.
