Aljezur Sweet-Potato Pasties — Reproduced Municipal Recipe
A food publication reproduces a recipe it attributes to Aljezur Municipality’s website: dough worked with egg, butter, lard, orange and medronho aguardente encloses a dry sweet-potato, sugar, lemon and cinnamon filling before frying. The filling’s sweet-potato and sugar quantities were not published and remain explicitly open.
- Yields
- 4 people, according to the source; number of pasties not stated
- Prep
- Not stated by the source
- Cook
- Not stated by the source
Ingredients
- 250 g / 8.8 oz Wheat flour
- 1 Egg
- 50 g / 1.8 oz Melted butter
- 25 g / 0.9 oz Homemade lard
- Quantity not stated Orange juice
- Quantity not stated Salt
- 1 small glass; capacity not stated Medronho aguardente
- Quantity not stated Sweet potato
- Quantity not stated Sugar for the filling
- Quantity not stated Lemon zest
- 30 g / 1.1 oz in the published list Cinnamon
- Quantity not stated Olive oil for greasing the worktop
- Quantity not stated Oil for frying
- Quantity not stated Sugar for dusting
Method
Place the egg in a large bowl with salt, orange juice and lard. Beat thoroughly.
Add the small glass of medronho aguardente and beat a little more. Gradually incorporate the flour and melted butter, following the published list.
When the dough begins to leave the bowl, knead and dust it with flour until it releases completely.
Transfer to a stone or table and continue kneading and striking it for elasticity, occasionally greasing the surface with olive oil. Cut the dough: many bubbles inside indicate the published endpoint.
Boil the sweet potatoes in their skins. Peel and purée them.
Heat the sugar with a little water until it begins to reach road stage. Remove from the heat, add the purée, lemon zest and cinnamon and mix well.
Return the filling to the heat until quite dry without burning. Leave to cool completely.
Roll portions of dough as thin as possible, add small mounds of cold filling and cut around them with a pastry wheel.
Fry in hot oil, drain and dust with sugar.
Sources for this recipe
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