Sweet-Almond Amaretti with apple
Sweet-Almond Amaretti with apple. Book: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24407 Quantities and instructions were newly written for home cooking; this is not a historical transcription. Not…
- 150 g ground sweet almonds
- 100 g sugar
- 2 piece egg whites
- 5 g lemon zest
- 70 g apple
- Peel and core the apple, then dice very finely. Heat oven to 170 °C and line a baking tray.
- Whisk egg whites until foamy and mix in sugar, ground sweet almonds and lemon zest; fold in the variation ingredient.
- With damp hands form 16 equal small mounds on the tray. Bake for 15–20 minutes until lightly golden and the centre reaches 71 °C.
- Cool completely for 30 additional minutes and serve four per person. Only ordinary sweet almonds are used in this modern formula. Cool leftovers rapidly in shallow containers and refrigerate at 4 °C within 2 hours.
- Photo: Marica Massaro — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amaretti_colorati.jpg Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Resized and converted to JPEG; no crop. Amaretti with sweet-almond decorations; colour, shape and fruit additions differ.
Original modern halal adaptation and ingredient variation inspired by Maria Gentile, The Italian Cook Book, dish family: Sweet-Almond Amaretti.