First of all I have to admit something. For my first decade of living in Italy I didn’t even attempt to try a piece of crostata. To me it looked dry and tasteless. And it was full of jam. I used to despise any sort of dessert that involved jam. Then one day I found myself starving at a kid’s birthday party and the only thing being served was crostata. So I took a piece to relieve my hunger induced headache and I couldn’t believe how delicious it was. At first I thought it was probably due to the fact I hadn’t eaten all day and chopped liver would have tasted divine. But in the end I realised that crostata is delicious. Really delicious.
This past week I spent the morning with one of my closest Italian friends and she kindly taught me how to make the basic Italian Crostata. It’s surprisingly easy, only has 5 ingredients and it takes minutes to prepare. That’s my kind of recipe. There are the traditional jam filled crostata as well as the blind baked crostata pie shells which are filled with anything from pastry cream to Nutella to fresh fruits after being baked. The options are endless.
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Jillian In Italy 