Do you want to learn how to make a delicious pan forte for Christmas? It is a traditional dessert from Tuscany (Italy), and as exquisite as it is wonderful. Discover the recipe.

As many of you know, Spanish gastronomy offers us a wide catalog when it comes to tasting a multitude of sweets during the Christmas season. So much so, that marzipan, shortbread, mantecados such as the roscón de Reyes tend to flood the tables of any self-respecting Spanish family.

Over the years they have become a perfect accompaniment to combat the cold if we take them at the same time with a tea, coffee or hot chocolate with which children usually lick their fingers.

However, it is also possible that many of you are already a little fed up with always consuming the same desserts during Christmas. Would you like us at Natursan to propose a very original recipe brought directly from Italian Tuscany?

In this way, we are going to ask you not to lose sight of the following Pan forte, a traditional dessert from the transalpine country that began to be cooked at the beginning of the 11th century with honey, flour and nuts. Its acceptance was such that in fact it began to be used as a tithe among the Italian monks and nuns of that time.

Even the crusader knights began to consume it as a source of energy during the First Crusades that took place from the Iberian Peninsula to the very Kingdom of Jerusalem.  Nowadays it has become a sweet with a great prominence in Italy, especially at Christmas time.

Christmas pan forte recipe: traditional Italian recipe

After reading all this, have you had an overwhelming desire to try this pan forte ? Well, there is no better way to achieve it than preparing it with our own hands from the kitchen of our house. If you like the idea, you have no other option but to join us through the following pan forte recipe .

Ingredients needed to prepare the pan forte:

  • 300 grams of candied fruit
  • 200 grams of walnuts
  • 100 grams of dried figs
  • 150 grams of sugar
  • 100 ml of honey
  • 50 grams of flour
  • 50 grams of cocoa powder
  • ground pepper and cinnamon

Steps to prepare the Pan forte:

  1. We will start by cutting and chopping all the nuts and candied fruit. Once done, we sprinkle a little cinnamon and pepper to our liking along with all the cocoa and flour.
  2. On the other hand, we will melt the honey together with the sugar in a water bath for a couple of minutes. It is very important not to stop stirring to avoid the appearance of lumps and to ensure that both ingredients mix well.
  3. When we get a kind of paste, we turn off the heat and then add the mixture of nuts that we have achieved in the first point. Then, with floured hands, mix all the ingredients until you get rectangular dough that is about 3 centimeters thick.
  4. We pass everything to a rectangular mold that we will later put on a baking tray with butter and a little more flour. We program the oven preheating at a temperature of 150º for the next 30 minutes. We remove it and give the final touch with a little cinnamon or icing sugar if we wish. And enjoy has been said!

 

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