'IRIS CA RICOTTA' The 'Iris' is a typical Sicilian brioche, very much appreciated, that can be baked in the oven or fried, filled with ricotta cheese, cream or chocolate.
The origin of the recipe is ascribed to a pastry chef named Antonio Lo Verso, who in 1901 made for the first time an original brioche by taking the crust out of a 'panino', filling in with ricotta cheese cream, rolling it with breadcrumbs and frying it in hot oil. This happened at the same time as the Premiere of the Opera directed by Pietro Mascagni, named indeed Iris, which gave the name to the brioche.
The Iris, born in Palermo, reached Catania very soon, and the recipe gradually changed replacing the 'panino' with a milky panino or a brioche, or with leavened dough, filled in before cooking.
We are going to share with you the recipe with leavened dough, fried, filled with ricotta cheese cream. Enjoy cooking!
500 g of flour 00, 50 g of margarine, 25 g of brewer's yeast, 4 eggs, 300 g of fresh ricotta cheese, milk, caster sugar, breadcrumbs, oil for frying, salt.
Sift the flour in a bowl; add the softened margarine and start mixing the ingredients. Add 50 g of sugar, the powdery yeast, a pinch of salt and add 2,5 dl of warm milk little by little while continuing to blend.
As soon as the mixture will be homogeneous, add one beaten egg and powerfully knead the dough by beating it on a hard surface. At this point, put it in a bowl, add a small cup of water and continue kneading it.
As soon as it will get soft enough move it into a oiled baking tray and let it rise for one hour. After that oil your hands and split the dough in loaves; cut 7-8 cm small discs and distribute on half of them the ricotta cheese previously mixed with 80 g of sugar.
Cover with the remaining discs and place in a greased oven dish.
Let it rise for 30 min in a lukewarm place.
At this point dip the iris in the beaten eggs with a pinch of salt and in the breadcrumbs and fry them in hot oil.
Place them in kitchen paper to let it loose some of the grease and serve lukewarm.
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