Hi! As you may know, I made this recipe last year, and the panellet dough was too soft, so it didn’t achieve the right consistency. Luckily, this year I found a method that worked really well (adding a bit of all-purpose flour to the mix) to get the perfect panellet dough—compact but soft to the bite. This wouldn’t have been possible without checking the blog of Maria Lunarillos (www.marialunarillos.com), which was super helpful. My sister and I really enjoyed cooking these together!
If you’ve never tried panellets, let me explain what these delicious bites are all about. Panellets are small cakes popular in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Valencia, and Aragon. They’re commonly eaten on All Saints' Eve (which is Halloween in some countries) and also on November 1st, often accompanied by a sweet wine. Traditional panellets are made with marzipan, a paste made from almonds and sugar, and covered with pine nuts, grated coconut, or chopped almonds, then glazed with egg. They’re round in shape and very soft when you bite into them. Some people use sweet potato or regular potato to make the dough, but I also used some all-purpose flour. The choice is yours, depending on the texture you prefer.
Enjoy the recipe!
INGREDIENTS:
For the dough:
- 250 g of milled almonds
- 500 gr. of sugar
- 125 g of boiled or steamed potatoes or/and sweet potatoes
- 150 g of grated lemon peel.
Garnish:
- 60 g of pine nuts
- 50 g of whole raw almonds (For the decoration I've used raw unpeeled almond)
- Grated coconut
- An egg
- All purpose flour (If needed)
METHOD
Step 1: Preheat the oven at 220ºC. Boil or steam the potatoes and the sweet potatoes. Mash them.
Step 2: Mix sugar, ground almonds and the grated lemon peel into a bowl, I used my electric mixer to ground the almonds easier, you can also buy them already ground.
Step 3: Split the egg yolk from the egg white. We'll use the egg white later. Beat the egg yolk and add some into the mashed potatoes (Use the rest of the egg yolk in case the mixture is too dry) Add the mixture into the ground almond and the sugar, whisk together, it is very important that you keep whisking until you get consistency. If you see that the dough is too sticky, keep whisking and add some all purpose flour if desired.
Step 4: Divide the dough in two if you want to make coconut panellets. Add some grated coconut into one of these dough. It is time to start doing the shape. Because I love panellets I made them a bit bigger than they usually are but you can make it the classic way which is the size of a walnut. (Do the same with the coconut dough)
Step 5: Cover each panellet with pine nuts, raw almonds or ground almonds, cover the coconut ones with grated coconut. Varnish them with the egg white. Bake at 150ºC for 10 minutes.
INGREDIENTES:
Para la masa:
- 250 gr. de almendra molida
- 500 gr. de azúcar
- 125 gr. de patatas y/o moniatos cocidos
Guarniciones:
- 150gr de ralladura de limón
- 60 g de piñones
- 50 g de almendra pelada cruda (Para decorar he usado almendra cruda sin pelar)
- Coco rallado
- 2 yemas de huevo
PROCEDIMIENTO
1r paso: Precalentar el horno a 220ºC. Cocer o hacer al vapor las patatas y los boniatos y hacerlos puré.
2º paso: Mezclar el azúcar, la almendra molida y la ralladura de limón en un bol. He usado la minipimer para picar las almendras más fácilmente, también puedes comprar almendras que ya estén molidas.
3r paso: Separar la yema de huevo de la clara. (Usaremos la clara más adelante) Batir la yema e añadir un poco en la patata o boniato (Usar el resto de la clara en caso de que la masa quede muy seca) Añadir esta mezcla a la almendra molida y el azúcar, mezclar todo junto. Es muy importante insistir hasta que la mezcla quede consistente, si se observa que la masa es demasiado pegajosa, se puede agregar un poco de harina de trigo mientras se sigue mezclando.
4ºpaso: En caso de querer hacer panellets de coco, se divide la masa en dos y se añade un poco de coco rallado a esa masa. Es momento de comenzar a hacer las formas. Personalmente, me encantan los panellets, así que hice la forma un poco más grande de lo normal, pero siempre puedes optar por hacer su forma clásica, guíate por la forma de una nuez. (Seguir el mismo procedimiento con los de coco)
5º paso: Cubrir los panellets de piñones, almendras crudas o picadas, cubrir los de coco con coco rallado. Barnizar con la clara de huevo y hornear a 150ºC durante 10 minutos.




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