DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Aletria
Sónia and Diogo’s aletria for Continente cooks broken pasta in a sweetened soy drink with cinnamon, lemon peel and butter, thickens it with egg yolks and decorates it with ground cinnamon.
About Aletria
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Continente credits this creamy aletria to Sónia and Diogo of The Healthy Sins. It presents aletria as a Portuguese sweet associated with Christmas, while noting that it can be enjoyed throughout the year.
This particular recipe uses a soy plant drink, rather than a generic milk version. Cinnamon sticks, lemon peel, butter and white sugar are added to the drink and brought to a boil.
Broken aletria pasta is stirred into the boiling liquid and cooked in it. The source keeps the pasta in the same fragrant, sweetened mixture.
Beaten egg yolks are added in a thin stream while the mixture is stirred until thickened. The aletria is then poured into an earthenware bowl and its surface smoothed.
Ground cinnamon decorates the finished surface. The cinnamon sticks in the cooking liquid and the powdered finishing cinnamon are separate uses within this selected recipe.
Ingredients in Aletria
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- Wheat vermicellibase
- Cow Milkbase
- Sugarsweetener
- Lemon Peelseasoning
- Cinnamongarnish
- Eggbinder
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
Origins & food traditions
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- Cooking traditions
- The Healthy Sins Portuguese-style aletria
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