Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lalagia from kalamata. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lalagia from Kalamata is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Lalagia from Kalamata is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
The thinner the strings are the crunchier the lalagia will be. Take care, because if you spent a long time kneading them they will have risen. That is why you need at least two persons, one is molding them and the other is frying.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook lalagia from kalamata using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lalagia from Kalamata:
- Take 2 kg flour
- Make ready 2 tsp sugar
- Get 2 cups olive oil
- Prepare 2 oranges (zest and juice)
- Get 2 tsp salt
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Get 1 bit of cognac
- Take 25 g fresh yeast
- Make ready 2 cinnamon sticks
- Make ready a few cloves
- Take 1 tsp cinammon powder
- Get 1/2 tsp clove powder
Great recipe for Lalagia from Kalamata. Crunchy dough strips that you can get all year round in all the bakeries of Messinia. Recipe by Sitronella Lalagia are traditionally a Christmas-eve treat and children are often told the rather odd shapes scare off any evil spirits working up mischief on the night before. the feast! Kalamata itself is not Greece's most aesthetically beautiful city, but it is a wonderful one.
Steps to make Lalagia from Kalamata:
- Put some warm water in a deep bowl and dissolve the yeast. Add the sugar and a little bit of flour to make a batter which you leave to stand so that it rises.
- Put the flour in a large bowl together with the salt, the zest from the 2 oranges, the cinnamon powder and the clove powder. Mix.
- Add the oil and rub the flour well with our hands so that it becomes like trahana.
- Our flour has to acquire a texture like the one in the photo.
- We boil some water with the cinnamon sticks, the whole cloves and a part of the orange peel (maybe the top, since we won't have got the zest from there). This way, we get fragrant water.
- We add the batter that has already risen to the big bowl with the flour, as well as the fragrant water, the orange juice, the eggs and the cognac.
- We add some warm water and knead well. We start adding more water gradually till we get a soft pliable dough that doesn't stick to our hands.
- We cover the bowl with a towel and wrap it with a blanket. We let it stand for about 2 hours, until it doubles in size.
- We take a piece of our dough as big as a small walnut and make it into a thin string, roughly as thick as our finger (see video). It isn't as simple as it looks. It takes practice. If the dough breaks, then you stick it back again and keep on molding.
- In a deep pot we put oil to the boil. We form our strings (see video) and put them in the oil till they are golden brown. The thinner the strings are the crunchier the lalagia will be. Take care, because if you spent a long time kneading them they will have risen. That is why you need at least two persons, one is molding them and the other is frying.
- You can use the same dough to make rusks. Add a bit of anise, knead and mold into a baguette. Score it with the spine of the knife and put it in the oven. When they are done, cut the pieces and put them back in the oven to turn them into rusks. I strongly recommend them!!
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