Cooking Experience

Happy Christmas 2013

Includes recipe in english and spanish – Bajar para ver la receta en español

ENGLISH

From Where is Asturias we sincerely want to thank you for a year of support, collaboration and friendship that inspires us to be better and gives us a lot of energy to start the new year full of ideas and new projects.

To wish you a Happy Christmas 2013, we couldn´t think of a better way than offering you a real Christmas Treat, the recipe of Casadiellas by none other than Master pastry Chef Miguel Sierra.

Casadiellas (Walnut & Hazelnut Pastries) is one of the most typical and tasty desserts of Asturias especially at this time of the year when we have collected the nuts from our magical forests and we have plenty of delicious harvest to work with.

Miguel Sierra is a multi-award winning Spanish Master Pastry Chef. Through his company Sweet World, he creates personalized desserts for restaurants, events, companies and very special gifts.  He also designs cooking experiences for groups, collaborates and advises restaurants on their dessert menus, collaborates with other renowned chefs, gives speeches and master classes in Spain and Mexico and he was part of the team of Paco Torreblanca for the creation of the desserts for the wedding of Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia of Spain.

This video was filmed in the unforgettable location of the Rural Hotel Quintana del Caleyo in Salas, Asturias. We are very thankful to Antonio, Maria Jesus and family for being so welcoming and giving us so much support in everything we needed during the filming. Happy Christmas 2013 for all.

And now for the Casadiellas recipe…You can see the preparation in the video so all you need is the ingredients:

For the dough:

300 gr. of wheat flour

35 ml. of olive oil

35 ml. of milk

a dessert spoon of yeast

1 egg

125gr. of butter

1 teaspoon of salt

1 pinch of sugar

Prepare a volcano with the flour and put in the rest of the ingredients while mixing up them together and making it into smooth dough. Let the dough set for a couple of hours, you can prepare the dough before and keep it in the fridge.

For the filling:

Mixed walnuts and hazelnuts

Sugar

Anisette

Mix and crush all the above ingredients together with a fork or pestle and mortar. You can leave it rest for a couple of hours so the flavours mix up together.

Once everything is ready cut the dough into sections and use a rolling pin to spread and flatten it. Paint with water or egg the interior part of the dough. Put some filling into each piece and fold it. Close the ends with a fork and pinch with a tooth pick so the pastries don´t open or explode during frying.

Then put olive oil into a pan and heat it until is hot and smoky. Then fry them in both sides for around three minutes or until you see they have browned.

Finally retire them onto a tray and dust them with icing sugar over the top.

All of this with a lot of love and a pinch of fun!

They are suitable for breakfast, tea time, dessert or at any time of the day. You can take them with hot or cold drinks. We took them with cherry anisette liquor and sparkling cider from Asturias.

Enjoy it!!

If you want more information contact Where is Asturias at info@whereisasturias.com

ESPAÑOL

Happy Christmas 2013. Desde Where is Asturias queremos  agradeceros muy sinceramente este año de apoyo, colaboración y amistad que nos  sirve de inspiración cada día para intentar ser mejores, aportándonos la energía para empezar el 2014 lleno de ideas y nuevos proyectos.

Te deseamos unas muy Happy Christmas 2013, Felices Fiestas y un fantástico 2014. No pudimos encontrar una forma mejor que  ofreciéndote un capricho navideño: “Casadiellas Asturianas” realizadas por Miguel Sierra, Maestro  Pastelero Español.