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Recipe of Chestnut Butter
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Chestnut Butter

30 mins
13 mins
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These mantecadas are a very appropriate dessert for Christmas. It is made with traditional ingredients and the recipe is made with traditional utensils also inherited from grandmothers to granddaughters.

Ingredients

6 portions
  • 1 kilo flour
  • 1/2 kilos lard
  • 250 grams chestnut
  • 250 grams almond, peeled
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground clove
  • 2 tablespoons anisette liqueur
  • 300 grams powdered sugar

Preparation

We roast the chestnuts in the oven and peel them. We also toast the peeled almonds, crush almonds and roasted chestnuts and reserve.
Apart roast the flour over low heat while stirring until golden brown, add the mixture of chestnuts and almonds and reserve.
In a clay bowl previously heated with boiling water, we toss the lard, beat little by little with the icing sugar, the anise, the cinnamon and the ground clove.
Add the flour mixture and let's form the shortcrust pastry.
Let it rest for half an hour and then extend cutting with a mold, we are placing them in a previously greased baking tray and take about 12 minutes at 150ºC.
Sprinkle with ground cinnamon and icing sugar and store in a closed container or wrapped in tissue paper.

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Nutritional information

* Information per 100g serving, percent daily values based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Energy
486
kcal
24.3%
Carbohydrate, by difference
53.3
g
17.77%
Protein
6.9
g
13.8%
Total lipid (fat)
27.2
g
41.85%
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