Leah Cohen - Cannoli With Orange Sauce and Pistachios

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Centro Vinoteca chef Leah Cohen divulges her secret Sicilian dessert.

Cannoli With Orange Sauce and Pistachios

Ingredients
For dough:
500 g all purpose flour
50 g butter, softened
3 g cinnamon
10 g cocoa powder
1 whole egg
180 g sweet maralsa

Filling:
500 g sheep's milk ricotta
200 g sugar
1 tbs vanilla extract
Orange sauce:
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
2 g xantham gum

Cooking Directions

For dough:

Put all ingredients in a kitchen aid; use the dough hook attachment. Once the dough forms a ball, take out of kitchen aid and knead in counter top for 3 minutes. Refrigerate for at least 2 hrs.

Once the dough is ready, roll out on a pasta machine to number 2. Form around cannolli molds and fry at 350 degrees until crispy around 2 minutes

Filling:

Mix all ingredients in kitchen add using whisk attachment. Whisk until mixture is smooth.

Orange sauce: Whisk the xantham gum into the orange juice. Once the juice thickens strain though a chinois.

To assemble: Pipe ricotta filling into the cannolli shell, dip into crushed pistachios and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Spoon orange sauce on the bottom of a plate and put cannoli on top.

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Tags:

• Leah Cohen
• Centro Vinoteca
• Sicilian dessert
• cooking
• how to
• Cannoli
• Orange Sauce
• Pistachios

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yeah ,.....i love cannoli

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