Thanks to “Monferrato My!, traditional recipes from Val Rilate” by Elisabeth Toni Hilton, Paolo Ferrero and Leonardo Tessiore, diffusione immagine editore
Ingredients: (for 8/10 people)
- 1/2 kg hulled chestnuts (preferably the Garessine ones, soft and sweet ...)
- 200g sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1/2 l whole milk
- 200g amaretti (dry)
- 200g sweet gallette biscuits
- 80g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 dose vanilla sugar
- 1 dose leaven
- peel of one lemon
- 1 small glass Amaretto liquore or good Rhum
Preparation:
Boil the chestnuts in water until soft. Pass them throught a food mill or grinder, to obtain a soft purée. Prepare the ingredients for the dough mincing finely amaretti, biscuits and lemon peel. Fold all the ingredients (eggs, sugar, milk ...) together with the chestnut puree in a bowl, carfully mixing. Butter a baking dish and sprinkle the bottom and edges with breadcrumbs to avoid burning and sticking; shake off the excess bread leaving only a patina. Pour the batter in the cake pan and bake in oven preheated at 180° for about 1 hour