Croatian Recipes: Kroštule

by croatiaweek
December 2, 2015
in Food & Wine

Croatia Week and Fini Recepti bring you your favourite Croatian recipes in English…

Croatian TV chef Almo Čatlak this year completed 10 years of his cooking show ‘TV-kuhanja’ (TV-cooking). Čatlak’s show, which shows viewers how to prepare a meal from start to finish in a 3-4 minute clip, was broadcast on Croatian TV for the past decade. In that period Čatlak has produced over 2,000 videos.

Today:

Kroštule – a traditional Dalmatian pastry, are great to whip up any time of the year – especially over Christmas.

Ingredients (serves 4 people)

Flour- 200 g
Sugar – 50 g
Egg yolks – 3
Oil – 1 dl
Rakija – 1 dl
Milk – 150 ml
Lemon – 1/2 skin
Oil – 500 ml for frying
Icing sugar – 100 g
Salt – 1 pinch
Instructions
In a bowl mix together the egg yolks, sugar, milk, oil, rakija, pinch of salt and grated lemon skin
Add flour then to the mixture, mixing well with a spatcula. Take the mixture onto a floured board and mix with your hands till its semi hard
With a rolling pin roll out the dough to 5 mm rectangular sheets. With a pastry wheel cut out strips 10 x 3 cm in size. With a little knife cut a little part in the centr and through the opening pull the other end of the pastry through
Fry until golden in colour
Once done take out and sprinkle some icing sugar on top