(Carnival knots with Vin Santo - Authentic Italian recipes from Tuscany)

300 g (10 1/2 oz) all-purpose flour plus extra for dusting
55 g (2 oz) sugar
55 g (2 oz) unsalted butter
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
2 eggs
2 tablespoons Vin Santo
Grated rind of a lemon
Oil for frying
Icing sugar for dusting
Salt

Time:
preparation: 40 minutes
plus resting time for dough
cooking: 20 minutes
Difficulty:
medium
Nutrition Facts (amount per serving):
Calories: 305 (kCal) 15 % GDA - 1276 (kJ)
Protein: 7.9 (g) 14 % GDA
Total fat: 10.6 (g) 14 % GDA
Total carbohydrate: 47.5 (g) 17 % GDA
Sugars: 9.2 (g) 10 % GDA

Put flour in a bowl or on a work surface. Make a well in the centre and add sugar, eggs, lemon rind, melted butter, olive oil, Vin Santo and a pinch of salt in it.
Beat eggs and other ingredients with a fork and then, using your fingers, draw in flour from the edge of the well, slowly, until a soft dough forms.
Keep on kneading with your hands for about ten minutes until dough is smooth and elastic and there is no trace of dough on your fingers.
Cover with a napkin and allow to rest for about 30 minutes.
Roll out pasta dough on lightly floured surface, beginning from the center, to a thickness of 0,2 cm (1/8in); you have to use a long pasta rolling pin for this.
Cut pasta into 2 fingers width strips and then every strip in 4 fingers width pieces, diagonally.
You have to obtain rhombus shapes.
Fry them in abundant oil in a non-stick frying pan until they are golden on both sides.
Put them on absorbent kitchen paper in order to remove the excess of fat.
Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve hot or cold; serve with Vin Santo (a sweet wine from Tuscany - Italy).

Note

- For a light recipe: we didn't use melted butter; we substituted butter with olive oil (we added 4 tablespoons oil making the dough).
- We suggest to use extra virgin olive oil for frying.
- It's very difficult to have the real amount of the frying oil and icing sugar.
So nutrition facts don't include these ingredients. If you want to include these ingredients, you have to add 100-150 kcal per 100 g of this dish.
- Don't eat fried food too many times; it isn't healthy food!