Giada de Laurentis chocolate citrus biscotti

 

I have previously done some recipes from Giada and never disappointed me. This recipe for biscotti was very good especially dipped in some chocolate.
Adapted from Foodnetwork.com

Ingredients


2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup fine yellow cornmeal
3 large eggs
1 1/2 teaspoon baking poder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon orange zest
1 tablespoon lemon zest
1 3/4 cups semisweet chocolate pieces or chocolate chips

Method
Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Stir the flour, cornmeal, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. 
Beat the eggs and sugar in another bowl until pale yellow and fluffy,about 3 minutes.
Add the orange and lemon zests to dry ingredients.Add the flour mixture to the eggs and sugar and beat just until blended
(the dough will be soft and sticky) let stand by 5 minutes.
Preheat oven to 180°c

(If you think is needed add a little flour to dough)

Using a spatula transfer the dough to the prepared baking oven  sheet , moisten your hands with water and shape the dough in two logs.

Bake until lightly brown about 35 minutes Cool

logs for 5 minutes.

Using a.serrated knife, cut the logs in diagonal slices,.

Arrange the biscottis cut side down on the baking sheet

Bake until the biscotti are pale and Golden about 20 minutes.

Let cool and tranfer to a rack and cool completely.

Melt the chocolate in the microwave srtirring every 20 seconds about 1 1/2 minutes total, if you want you can make to bain Marie too.
Dip 1 cut side of each biscotti into the melted chocolate.
Gently shake off the excess chocolate. Let cool about 35 minutes

Note:
The biscotti can be made ahead. Store them in an airtight container up to 4 days, or wrap them in foil and freeze in resealable plastic bags up to 3 weeks.

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en español
Biscottis  (Giada de laurentis)

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Los biscottis son un tipo de galletas italianas muy buenas y  un poco tostadas , ideal para servirse con té o café, rápidas y sencillas para hacer, el procedimiento consiste en

que se divide la masa en dos partes, se hornea y después se cortan los biscottis en diagonal y se doran un poco más.

Se pueden guardar en una caja de galletas una semana y se conservan muy bien.

Ingredientes

2 tazas de harina sin polvos de hornear

3/4 taza de polenta o semola fin

3 huevos

1 1/2 cucharadita de polvos de hornear

1/2 cucharadita de sal

1 taza de azúcar

1 cucharada ralladura de naranja

1 cucharada ralladura de limón

1 3/4 taza de chocolate semidulce en trozos

 

Preparación

Preparar una bandeja de  horno con papel mantequilla.