Python of Messina

Procedure

Pythons Messina

For the dough of messina pythons: put the flour on the work surface, salt and sugar. Slowly add the mineral water and white wine and start working the dough until you get a coarse mixture. Add the lard, then work vigorously for at least 15 minutes, until you have a smooth dough, smooth and elastic, tenacious consistency. Wrap the panetto in the food film and let stand at room temperature for an hour.

Meanwhile clean, wash and dry the Escarole (curly Endive), then cut the vegetables finely. Dice the cheese tuma or primo sale. Make into small pieces also anchovies.

When the rest time of the dough has elapsed, Knead on floured work surface with a rolling pin, drawing a rectangle about half a centimetre thick. Fold the dough folding on itself, How do the puff pastry. Work with the rolling pin again forming a rectangle and fold the dough back into the book. Perform this process for at least 5 times, so that the dough in cooking has a kind of peeling. After the last fold, divide the dough in half and spread it to a height of 3-5 millimeters. Cut out some discs using the cookie cutters (for Pythons in mignon size) or using the circle of a cake pan with a diameter of 20-22 cm, to get normal sized pythons.

Garnishing pythons Messina: season the Endive is rich with olive oil and salt. Put in the center of each disc hearty Escarole, pressing down firmly, Add a few pieces of anchovy, the diced cheese and freshly ground black pepper. Slightly moisten the edges with very little water. Fold the records on yourself, forming a sort of half moon shaped Ravioli. Press the edges and crop them with a wheel.

Frying pythons Messina : I recommend you use a wok, that will allow even cooking and quick. Bring peanut seed oil to a temperature of 165 degrees, then dip one or two Pythons at a time, continuously pouring boiling oil on the surface and turning them often. If the temperature is correct, bubbles will form on the surface of the pythons. Continue until brown of the pythons. Once browned, put them on the absorbent paper so that they lose the excess oil.

Enjoy pythons hot Messina. Never heat this food in the microwave because it become soft; It is preferable to use the oven at 100 degrees. And Bon Appetit!

MATCHING: To match this traditional recipe we choose a beer brewed on the very shore of the Strait. The Brewery Messina produces the "Doc 15", a beer dedicated to courage of entrepreneurs who founded the brewery after many hardships. It's a lager, aromatic and hopped, with a compact foam and an alcohol content contained (4,7% ABV.) making it pleasantly drinkable.