Panellets – All Saints Catalan tradition

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Ladies and gentlemen, at home we just given the starting gun.

Yes, because with “La Castañada” (Traditional all saints holiday meal) time seems going fast and suddenly we already are on Christmas.

Exaggerate?

No, what did you want to bet that on Saturday evening, at desserts, my mother-in-law will say something like:

What will we do on Christmas this year?

Obviously we will do as every year: eat, spend, eat more, spend more and finally somebody will say: Uf! I think I ate too much. While I will be thinking: Yes you has eaten too much exactly all that I have paid.

But well, we will be time to talk about Christmas “joys”.

For the moment next Saturday is “Castañada” day. As usual, besides an assorted omelets collection by my mother in-law, a lot of various sausage and a lot of accompaniment likecheese, ham and so on. Traditionally in Catalonia we eat roasted sweet potatoes and roasted chestnut (a great idea with today’s 27 degrees) and finally as a dessert the traditional “Panellets”

Panellets are the typical Catalan All saints dessert. But, in my opinion, in fact is the patissiers’s day. No, no it is not their patron saint, but may be because one Panellets Kg be worth a fortune. Like we say on Spain (You need one kidney a piece of the other one).

Years ago, I made one mistake “I would try to cook them at home and watch as they come” and unfortunately for me they went well.

Since then, every year around this time I am faced with the cumbersome task of cooking Panellets.

You will need

300 gr. icing sugar
300 gr. ground almond
100 gr. potato sweet potato (boiled and cold, COLD repeat)
and a little lemon zest.

In the end it must look like this

Now is time to make beads.

This part is such that teachers and some parents say it is “so funny” to do with children.

Ha!

With children it is fun later when somebody must clean marbles, drawers, cupboards, pants, aprons, shoes, floor, lamps, and when all is well you take the dog and put him in the bathtub.

This is the result without children.

The hour of the pine kernels

Look at them well because what you are seeing costs me 20 euros

Mix one or two egg yolks with pine kernels.

Take a few pine nuts in one hand and pass the beads so that the nuts are engaged.

I cannot include on picture because unfortunately I only have two hands.

The result would be something like this.

Cook in the oven (grill) for a few minutes in order to brown them

And that’s all.
Enjoy your meal.

As I’m concerned, this year I did my duty

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