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Italian

Food Category
Dessert
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Key Ingredient
Almonds
Egg
Pistachio

Special Consideration
Baking

Biscotti

Cuisine: Italian Servings: Makes 40 Created by Amando Percuoco

Ingredients

600g plain flour
600g castor sugar
2 tbsp baking powder
100g almonds, sliced
100g pistachio, shelled
1 vanilla bean, sliced and insides scraped out
Zest of 2 oranges
Zest of 2 lemons
Zest of 2 limes
4 eggs + 2 egg yolks
60 ml pernod , sambucca or preferred liquor
Pinch salt

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Preparation

In a large bowl combine all dry ingredients - flour, sugar, baking powder, salt nuts, vanilla and the citrus zest. Mix ingredients well.
Add wet ingredients and mix until well combined and forms a soft dough-like mixture.
Separate into individual logs 10cm x 4 cm. Wrap and refrigerate until required.

Bake each log in a moderate oven – 180ºC until golden brown on the outside.
Allow to cool. Thinly slice biscotti crosswise, place on a baking tray and re- bake until each biscuit is cooked through- approximately 5 minutes.
Do not overbake as this will cause the biscotti to become too hard and unpleasant to eat.

Italian Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 2156 Italian Restaurants.

Restaurant		Suburb
1.	The Beresford Hotel	Surry Hills
2.	Cellar 47	Shepparton
3.	Valentino's	Northbridge
4.	Smithfield Tavern	Smithfield
5.	Benny's Bar & Cafe	Fremantle
6.	Universal Bar	Northbridge
7.	Arch Rival	Palmerston
8.	Railway Hotel	Fitzroy North
9.	Vibe Cafe Restaurant	St Kilda
10.	Morning Star Estate	Mt Eliza

21 Nov 2011 10:42 AEST

Loretta

I am looking for a 'Nuciola' recipe. My Nanna used to make this - fig, honey, nut mixture wrapped in pastry like a cigar and twisted into 'S' shapes

22 May 2011 07:23 AEST

Sophia

Brentwood

Cooking

Divide mixture into six logs, cooks quickly and easier to slide more smaller logs than one big one.

10 Nov 2010 05:52 AEST

Maria

I am looking for a recipie on how to make these biscutts please can you help

14 Sep 2010 12:04 AEST

Sam

Where to get Sambucca ?? Is it necessary to add it?? I want to make one for my father in law who is Italian - sicilian. To impress him .:)

07 Jul 2010 08:11 AEST

Nevia Pimpini

Can anyone help me out please...looking for a recipe for Napoli Biscotti that is the only name I know them by, seached high and low with no success. They are my son's favorite and I would like to surprise him and make a big batch for him. Your help would be most appreciated. Regards Nevia

25 May 2010 08:37 AEST

Robyn

Darwin

Delicious

I made this with the 600g of sugar and although I thought it was a bit too sweet my Italian mother in law couldn't stop raving about them. Will try it with less sugar next time. Definately worth the effort! Thanks for sharing the recipe.

16 May 2010 05:15 AEST

georgia

brunswick

less sugar

I have used a third of the sugar , so hopefully this will work as well

16 May 2010 04:13 AEST

Kelly

Halve the quantity of sugar and it's fantastic. I used sambucca which works really well. Yum!

16 May 2010 02:44 AEST

Kelly

I am making the biscotti now and I have halved the sugar quantity. Let's see what happens.

14 May 2010 04:33 AEST

charmaine

Iwill try it with less sugar and see how it goes

10 May 2010 04:44 AEST

Margie

Is the amount of sugar correct in this recipe? I made them and they were overly sweet. Thankyou

06 May 2010 08:06 AEST

ABDULKADIR

LOOKS DELICIOUS AND IM GOING TO TRY IT OUT TOMMOROW.

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