Pear, Walnut & Ricotta Pie
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This delicious cake is sweet, soft for the pears and crisp for the walnuts:
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
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ingredients
- 4 cups ricotta cheese
- 4 ripe pears
- 10 walnuts
- 1 lime
- 4 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
directions
- To prepare the pear, walnuts, ricotta pie start peeling the four pears, preferably ripe, take away the central core and cut into small pieces. Put them in a bowl along with the chopped walnuts and with very little lime juice to prevent discoloring.
- Preheat the oven to 160 degrees C (325 degrees F). In a large bowl, beat with a whisk (or a planet) sugar with ricotta. Add 3 eggs one at a time and continue beating the mixture.
- Add the grated lime zest.
- Sift the flour with the baking powder and add to the mixture, stirring with a wooden spoon until you get a smooth dough. If needed, use the whisk. Stir in pears and walnuts with ‘any sauce that had formed and mix well.
- Pour into a cake pan with parchment paper.
- Now bake the cake at 160 C (325 F) for 50/60 minutes, until introducing a toothpick in the center of the cake, these will be dry. In case the cake you were to darken too much on the surface during cooking cover with aluminum foil.
- Remove the cake from the oven, let it cool, put it on a serving plate and if you wish sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.
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"This delicious cake is sweet, soft for the pears and crisp for the walnuts:"
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