Easter Italian Recipes
ANGINETTI (Italian Lemon Drops): The Best Recipe
With this recipe you can be part of my tradition, begin your own tradition and perhaps start your own family competition for generations to come.
SICILIAN SWEET RICOTTA PIE (The Best Recipe)
The Italians have many versions of the Italian Easter pie.
My personal favorite has always been this simple, sweet creamy version that invariably filled my mother’s kitchen with an aroma that prompted our neighbors from their homes in order to follow the scent.
CROSTATA RICOTTA E PERE (Pear Ricotta Tart): The Best Recipe
If you love Italian cakes, make this amazing and delicious baked fruit tart.
GRANDMA’S ITALIAN JAM TART (The Best Recipe)
Jam tarts are classic Italian desserts. Every home baker and her nonna has a favorite recipe, often incorporating homemade jam created with ripe fruit from the orto, or garden patch.
SCIUSCEDDU (ITALIAN MEATBALLS AND EGGS SOUP)
This recipe for ricotta meat balls is delicate, yet very appetizing.
PASTIERA NAPOLETANA ( ITALIAN RICOTTA EASTER PIE)
Pastiera is a traditional dessert consisting of an elastic but crumbly short pastry and a creamy filling made with ricotta and wheat.
BIGNE’ AL CIOCCOLATO (Italian Chocolate Pastry Puffs)
Sweet fritters, called zeppole, are found all over Italy, from cream-filled pastry puffs in Lazio to pine nut spheres in Emilia-Romagna to brandy-flavored rounds in Abruzzo. Here, a chunk of chocolate and a hazelnut are enclosed in each doughnut-like puff.
CRISPEDDI SICILIAN (Sicilian Sweet Fritters Potatoes)
The recipe below is my favourite sweet crispeddi with raisins, walnuts and fennel seeds.
ITALIAN RICOTTA CAKE (The Best Recipe)
Ricotta Cake is a sweet very simple and quick to prepare. With a few, but wholesome ingredients you get a soft and delicious desserts .
TARALLI (Italian Crisp Bread Rings)
They are crisp bread rings made with soft-wheat flour, olive oil and white wine, and flavoured with spices – generally fennel seeds.