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Blogging Marathon# 33: Week 4/ Day 3
Theme: BM# 32 Bookmarked Recipes
Dish: Zeppole by Sandhya Ramakrishnan
As I was looking for a dish to make for the final day of BM# 33, I narrowed down my search by looking for recipes made with X, Y & Z instead of the starting from A. Isn't that smart?? I think so too (patting on my shoulder right now 🙂
I got super excited when I saw Zeppole from Sandhya's blog in the list for Z and made it for our evening snack today. I've seen Zeppole in many street fairs but never tried to make it myself. This recipe sounded simple enough to try. I'm so glad I tried these because they were sooo good, we gobbled them all up in one sitting and wished there were more.. lot more.
Zeppole are also known as Italian donuts. Flour, butter and eggs are mixed into a dough and then deep fried. This particular recipe uses ricotta cheese and mascarpone cheese instead of butter. The resulting fried zeppole are so airy and fluffy that you lose count of how many you ate.
I didn't have any mascarpone cheese, so I used some vegan cream cheese I had in the fridge. I also used egg replacer instead of the 1 egg called for in the recipe. None of the substitutions affected the final taste or texture of these delicious zeppole. I added some orange zest to give them a slight zing. I served them with some chocolate sauce--yumm yumm.
Chocolate Sauce: Sauce can be made 2~3 days ahead of time and can be refrigerated until ready to use. Just warm it a little bit before serving.
Zeppole
Author: Pavani
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Prep Time: 20 minutes mins
Cook Time: 30 minutes mins
Total Time: 50 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Italian
Servings: 1216 zeppole
Ingredients
- 1 cup All-purpose flour
- ½ cup Ricotta cheese
- ½ cup Cream cheese cheese / mascarpone - (I used Tofutti vegan cream )
- 2 tsps Baking Powder
- 3 tbsps Sugar
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 tbsp Egg water replacer - whisked in 3tbsp (or 1 egg, lightly whisked)
- ¼ cup water Cold
- 2 tsps Vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp Orange zest (optional)
- ¼ cup Cinnamon sugar - (3tbsp granulated mixed with 2tsp cinnamon)
Chocolate Sauce:
- 1 cup Heavy Cream
- 1 cup chocolate Semi sweet chips
Instructions
Heat oil for deep frying in a saute pan or small wok.
In the meantime, in a small saucepan combine al the ingredients from the list above (flour to orange zest) and cook on low flame until a smooth batter forms. This takes about 2~3 minutes. Turn off the heat and wait till the oil is hot enough to start frying.
Once oil is hot, add the batter by spoonfuls and fry until golden brown on both sides, about 2~3 minutes per side. Make sure that the flame is not too high, then the outside will get too dark and the inside will be uncooked.
Remove onto paper towel lined plate. Toss the warm zeppole in cinnamon sugar and enjoy right away with chocolate sauce . These taste best when served the same day.
Chocolate Sauce: Warm cream in a small saucepan until bubbles start to form on the edges.
Turn off the heat and add the chocolate chips. Whisk until the chips are melted and the sauce is smooth.
Notes
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Nivedhanams Sowmya
so yum yum!!! love this drool worthy dish!!!Sowmya
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Sapana Behl
Zeppole came out very well !!Only few days left . Do participate inEat Seasonal Food Fresh
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Veena Theagarajan
looks so tempting.. kids would love this.. must try
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Priya Suresh
That last click is just killing me.. Very addictive donuts.
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Sandhya Ramakrishnan
Looks super delicious Pavani! I am tempted to make these again. Love the chocolate sauce on the side 🙂
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Priya Srinivasan
Puffy zeppole with chocolate sauce, mmm, sounds sinful!!
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Srivalli
Looks awesome Pavani..even I am planning to make these..:)
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Global Tastes & Travels Inc.
I grew up eating these from pizza shops heavily coated in powdered sugar - I like your way with the cinnamon sugar coating
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Global Tastes & Travels Inc.
I grew up eating these from pizza shops heavily coated in powdered sugar - I like your way with the cinnamon sugar coating
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Harini-Jaya Rupanagudi
That looks super sinful, Pavani!
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Saras
Yummy zepole and Chocolate dipped looks awesome and tempting..Great clicks too..
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Shikha Kaiwar
These look so good! I never had any zeppole when I visited Italy, but it was July so I had gelato 3x a day instead.
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