Zeppole de San Giuseppe

Zeppole de San Giuseppe is a fried dough dessert made especially for the Festival of St. Joseph, in Sicily. I fell in love with this dessert when I was there many years ago. It’s impossible to forget this flavor. So I decided to give it a shot in my kitchen.

Because I believe in working with locally available ingredients, I replaced the ricotta in the original recipe with our good old home made “Paneer”.

It’s super quick, no fuss dessert and you will see angels singing when you taste it 👼🏼👼🏼👼🏼!

Many of you have asked me for this recipe hence you must have it!

Ingredients – (serves 2)

  • Flour sieved 100gm

  • Paneer / ricotta 100gm

  • Powdered Cane Sugar 4tbsp

  • Milk 20ml

  • Vanilla essence 2-3drops

  • Egg (whole) 1nos.

  • Baking powder 2-3 pinch

  • Freshly ground cinnamon powder 2tbsp

  • Canola Oil for frying

  • Dark chocolate melted 1 cup

Directions

Take flour, Paneer, half of the sugar powder, milk, vanilla essence, baking powder, egg in a mixing bowl. 
Mix all the ingredients together with a hand blender

Heat the oil to 90 degrees for frying 
Spoon the batter into the hot oil. Fry until golden

Sieve the cinnamon powder & remaining sugar powder.

Roll the hot Zeppole spheres in it serve warm with warm chocolate sauce

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