Ingredients
Dough:
- 1 3/4 pounds bread flour
- Vegetable oil
Filling:
- 1 pound semolina flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon oil
- 15 eggs
- 1 1/4 pounds ricotta
- 3/4 pound custard cream
- 1/2 pound sugar
Directions
For the dough: Mix the bread flour and 1 cup water in the mixing bowl of a stand mixer with a hook attachment until firm. Take the dough out of the bowl, completely wrap in plastic wrap and let rest for 1 hour.
Press the dough as thin as possible with a rolling pin. Apply oil to the surfaces and roll the dough into a salami-shaped roll about 3 inches thick. When done, wrap in plastic wrap and keep in the refrigerator overnight.
For the filling: Put 4 cups water in a pot and bring to a boil. Add the semolina and mix until thoroughly firm and cooked. When the semolina is cool, put in the mixing bowl of a stand mixer and add the cinnamon oil. Mix at speed 2 and add the eggs one at a time. Add the ricotta and custard cream and mix thoroughly. Add the sugar, little by little while mixing thoroughly. If mixture is still extremely firm, add a couple more eggs.
To assemble: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Cut the "salami roll" into 1/4-inch discs. Each disc should be smoothed out between your palms. Using an ice cream scooper, fill the middle of the disc with filling and fold over into the shape of a clam shell. Put on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown and crispy, about 1 hour.
This recipe was provided by a professional chef or restaurant and makes a large quantity. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe, in the proportions indicated, and therefore, we cannot make any representation as to the results.
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By mason_grode
on September 07, 2011
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The recipe as writen was very slopped together and missing direction for beginners, but if you know enough about different pastries and know about bread i think this is a great recipe. I love how it uses the many different techniques comparative to making it a flaky dough like cresants (but using either butter or shortening and folding and rolling it many times and letting rest and repeat and using the cooked semolina and the technique of mixing in the eggs one at a time for a desired consistency (this very similar to pate' chaux and i love the savory and texture of the ricotta and i also incorporated my own pastry cream and mixed all to a desired consistency. SO UNIQUE
By Maharderak
Alaska
on September 04, 2011
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I had my doubts that this written version of the recipe might give me problems, since in the TV episode the bakers used shortening instead of oil to spread on the dough....I bake a lot from yeast doughs to puff pastry from scratch, but this dough never came together and remained a crumbly mess even after letting it rest wrapped in plastic wrap over night. One cup of water for 28 oz of flour will not make a firm dough. This recipe was a great waste of ingredients, especially since it has so many components that do not scale down well. I can not recommend making this.
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