Some very typical sweets on special dates such as Christmas or Holy Week, they are the pestiños, and you can find them in two different variants: pestiños with sugar and cinnamon like the ones we recommend today with this recipe or honey pestiños, as we already put you on some occasion and that then we link.
They are very basic ingredients so you will not have problems when finding them; yes, the pestiños are sweets in which you have to work the dough very well so that it does not come out too hard or too sticky. If they do not come out the first time, do not be discouraged, surely the second time you do them they will come out much better. We leave you with the recipe!
Pestiños with sugar and cinnamon
Pestiños with sugar and cinnamon are seen on many tables now around Christmas. It is a typical and very traditional sweet in our country, Spain.
Author Carmen Guillen
Kitchen: Traditional
Recipe type: Dessert
Rations: 10-15
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Ingredients
- 500 gr. wheat flour
- 150 ml of aceite oliva
- 150 ml of white wine
- 1 cup of sweet anise
- 2 tablespoons of matalauva (anise)
- Pinch of salt
- Lemon zest
- Cinnamon
- Sugar
- Sunflower oil
Preparation
- In a bowl we will add most of the ingredients and mix until we get a homogeneous and quite dense dough that is what we will have to knead to later make the shape of the pestiños.
- In this bowl the first thing we add will be the liquid: 150 ml of olive oil, 150 ml of white wine and the glass of anise. Mix a little with the help of a rod or fork and then we take the solid: the 500 grams of wheat flour (if it is more convenient we can add it little by little and mix), the matalauva (to taste), the zest of a lemon, a teaspoon of ground cinnamon and a pinch of salt. We mix everything and once it is difficult for us to move, we take it out and we continue mixing on a table or countertop with the help of your hands, with a little flour previously spread so that it does not stick.
- We knead well with a rolling pin, leaving a layer of thin dough, we cut in circles and then with the help of the fingers we shape the pestiño.
- We are heating the oil and when it is very hot we add the pestiños. Once they are done, we take them out and throw them over sugar and cinnamon.
- We let cool and eat when we want ...
Nutritional information per serving
Calories: 300