Wednesday, December 14, 2011
St Lucy's Day
December 13th is celebrated as Saint Lucy day. Here's what Paola - a teacher from Italy has written about it:Today in many countries of Europe it is celebrated Saint Lucy the patroness of the blinds, in fact in the northern countries like Sweden it's the light feast. Even in the extremely southern part of EU in Sicily it's an important festival. On this day we celebrate rites in churches and we eat neither bread nor pasta, but just rice or corn. We cook a lot of special dishes on this occasion: rice balls or "arancini" made of rice, minced meat, peas, cheese and corn with ricotta cream or chocolate cream, very delicious. I'd like to know if in your country you celebrate it for example in Norway, Anita could tell us how this festival is celebrated in her country.
This photo shows some "arancine".
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In Germany we don't celebrate Saint Lucy's Day, instead we celebrate Saint Nicholas on 6th December.
In Estonia we don't celebrate St Lucy's Day. However, in the western part of Estonia there are some villages and small islands with the Swedish influence and they have special chuech ceremonies.
the rice balls look delicious, could you share a recipe?
Ingredients:
400 gr of rice
150 gr of minced meat
100 gr of peas
1/2 sachet of saffron
1/2 peeled tomatoes
1/2 onion
6 eggs
300 gr of flour
300 gr of breadcrumbs
oil
100 gr of butter
salt and pepper
Preparation:
Cook the rice, then add saffron and stir it with rice, then put half the butter, 3 beaten eggs, stir and let it cool.
Meanwhile, fry the onion finely chopped, add the meat, peeled tomatoes, salt, pepper and cook it over low heat. Boil the peas, drain and fry in remaining butter. When the sauce is ready add the peas and mix well. Take a little mixture of rice,form a ball, make a little hole in the ball , and stuff some filling in it. Cover it with more rice, rub the croquettes in flour, eggs beaten with salt, then in breadcrumbs and deep fry in oil.Other recipes of Arancini are as follows: instead of meat sauce, you can use dark chocolate or ham and mozzarella cheese, or ham and bechamel or use your ... fantasy!
They're not as easy to make as they are to eat :D, you can bet! But if you like cooking then why not try it? Let us know about the outcome. If we get our Comenius project approved, you'll certainly get the chance to taste them here.
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