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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Cannoli without Marsala Wine

Today is all about improvising. Its all about cooking without the right equipment and getting amazing results.
I made two dishes today. But for both of the dishes I didn't have the require equipment but I made them :D and they were great.

The first dish was a cheese stuffed chicken breasts dish and the second was this-Cannoli. Cannoli is a dessert made of fried tubes and filled with sweet ricotta or some other stuffing. First off, I did not have any Marsala wine with me today. Second I don't have the Cannoli tubes which are used to wrap the dough and fry in hot oil. Thirdly I didn't wanted to deep fry it. So here is the healthy (as per not being deep fried) version of Cannoli without wine

Cannoli without Marsala Wine

Cannoli without Wine

Ingredients:

  1. 1 egg
  2. 1/2 cup white sugar
  3. 2 tablespoons each of butter, vegetable oil
  4. 3/4 cup all purpose flour
  5. 1/8 teaspoon each of  baking powder and salt
  6. 1/4-1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  7. 11/2 teaspoon each of distilled white vinegar and chilled water
Ingredients for filling:
  1. 1-11/4 cup lite ricotta cheese
  2. 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  3. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Sift the flour with baking soda and salt. In another bowl stir together the egg, sugar butter and oil till well blended. Add the flour to this along with vinegar and mix well. Add the water a little at a time until you get a thin pancake like batter.
Mix all the ingredients of the filling and leave it in the fridge until ready to use.
Heat a griddle to medium heat. Take 1/2 tablespoon of batter, place it into middle of the griddle and spread it with the back of a ladle with a light hand into about 4 inches circle. Let fry for about 2 minutes. Turn and fry for 1 more minute. Flip again and place a wooden cooking spoons handle and roll the hot cannoli onto it. Take it off into a place. Let it cool.
Right before serving, fill in the filling from the middle from both sides. Enjoy crunchy and cool Cannoli

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