Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lalagia from kalamata. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lalagia from Kalamata is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Lalagia from Kalamata is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
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 particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lalagia from kalamata using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lalagia from Kalamata:
- Get 2 kg flour
- Take 2 tsp sugar
- Make ready 2 cups olive oil
- Get 2 oranges (zest and juice)
- Get 2 tsp salt
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Make ready 1 bit of cognac
- Make ready 25 g fresh yeast
- Take 2 cinnamon sticks
- Take a few cloves
- Take 1 tsp cinammon powder
- Make ready 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!!
Discover its history; the old buildings and churches, and the wonderful museums. Discover its present too, the quirky boutique and art galleries, the incredible cafés and restaurants, the buzzing beachside bars and tavernas. From Sparta and Mystras to Monemvasia and Mani. The region of Lakonia is located in the South-Eastern Peloponnese and it is highly privileged to have the cities of Monemvasia and the biggest part of Mani district into its borders. Kalamata's castle is located on a small hill at the back of the old town and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the town.
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