Biscotti with dried cherries and pistachios

Description

Perhaps this is the most delicious cookie of the long-running. Well, who loves biscotti, do not need to tell you how delicious it is. Great to bake for a gift, which I often do. And pretty simple to prepare, but always bright and some festive.

Ingredients

Flour

350 g
Sugar

140 g
Leavening agent

1 tsp
Chicken egg

2 piece
Egg white

2 piece
Olive oil

2 Tbsp
Salt

1 pinch
Vanilla

1 handful
Lemon peel

1 tsp
Cherry

80 g
Pistachios

50 g

Cooking

Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.

Mix separately eggs, 1 egg white, olive oil, vanilla and lemon zest.

Mix the dry and wet mixture. Stir until a homogeneous dense mass.

Add the cherries and pistachios. Mix well.

Divide the dough into two parts. On a floured working surface of each part roll into "sausages" approx length of 22-23 cm and a width of 7-8 cm.

To shift the "sausages" on the laid baking paper baking sheet. Each sausage, brush with beaten egg white. Bake in pre-heated to 180 degrees oven for 22 minutes or until Golden brown.

At the end of time received baked goods cool on a wire rack. Oven temperature decrease to 150 degrees.

Warm "sausages" cut into with a sharp knife on the diagonal into thick slices 1-1,5 cm

Lay the slices on a baking sheet (crusts trimmed side down) and bake for another 5 minutes to obtain dried, but still soft biscotti. Or 15 minutes if you want to get crispy biscotti. Cool the biscotti without removing from pans.