Well, it’s been too long again since my last post. I am going to try and stay on top of this and keep posting yummy stuff from what I remember of growing up Italian and eating well!!! Just the other day I made some fried dough like my grandmother and my mother used to make. It was always such a treat! Really a good way to explain this would be Italian Doughnuts! In our family we called this “Pizza Freet”.
This is a simple dish that I remember my grandmother and my mother making when I was a kid. A real treat! Very yummy stuff! Fried Dough just like momma and grand mom used to make! There are so many variations you can do with this. The following are how we used to make these when I was a kid… Fried dough with: Powdered sugar , Melted butter and sugar, Spaghetti sauce and parmesan cheese, Ricotta cheese and sugar and last but not least Melted butter and grape jelly which was my favorite and used to drive my mother crazy! She would see me adding the butter and jelly to the fried dough and she would say.. “Oh.. That’s just wrong!”…. It still drives her crazy to this day J Oh but it’s so yummy, you should try it! But don’t tell my Mom ;-)
The first photo above is with the powdered sugar and is the most typical way to have the fried dough. Below I have placed some photos of the different ways you can flavor this wonderful Italian treat!
The easiest way to make this is just get some frozen dough from your local grocery and let it rise, roll it out and start frying in some vegetable oil. I talk a little bit about working with frozen dough in my Italian Sausage Bread Recipe. Might help you with the process. EnJoY….
This is a simple dish that I remember my grandmother and my mother making when I was a kid. A real treat! Very yummy stuff! Fried Dough just like momma and grand mom used to make! There are so many variations you can do with this. The following are how we used to make these when I was a kid… Fried dough with: Powdered sugar , Melted butter and sugar, Spaghetti sauce and parmesan cheese, Ricotta cheese and sugar and last but not least Melted butter and grape jelly which was my favorite and used to drive my mother crazy! She would see me adding the butter and jelly to the fried dough and she would say.. “Oh.. That’s just wrong!”…. It still drives her crazy to this day J Oh but it’s so yummy, you should try it! But don’t tell my Mom ;-)
The first photo above is with the powdered sugar and is the most typical way to have the fried dough. Below I have placed some photos of the different ways you can flavor this wonderful Italian treat!
The easiest way to make this is just get some frozen dough from your local grocery and let it rise, roll it out and start frying in some vegetable oil. I talk a little bit about working with frozen dough in my Italian Sausage Bread Recipe. Might help you with the process. EnJoY….
2 comments:
My mom and grandma made these with raisins and orange rind. The dough was formed into rings and deep-fried, so they looked like donuts. Is your family from Abruzzo? Thanks for the post.
Yum! I be that's great with raisins, my Mom or grandmother never added raisin. My grandmother was from Santeramo in Colle: Apulia Region (Puglia), 10 Miles south of Bari, Italy. I made a special page on my main website about my grandmother. You might enjoy the page.
http://www.spaghettisauceandmeatballs.com/my_italian_grandmother.html
Ciao, Anthony
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