Strufoli recipe

Strufoli recipe

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups flour
4 eggs
1 egg yolk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 tbsp sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
2 cups vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups honey
1 tsp grated orange peel

Directions

Put your flour on board and make a well in the center add your eggs, egg yolk, oil, sugar, salt and lemon peel. Mix and work dough well. Shape dough into very small balls about the size of marbles, and fry in hot oil until golden. Note: fry only a few at a time. While dough is frying,melt honey in saucepan and add orange peel. When balls are done, drop in honey and remove with a strainer spoon. Pile on a serving dish into conical mounds. Cool. Top with candy sprinkles or confectioners sugar, or leave plain.