• Recipe by Mimi Jardim 

    Sweet pasta dish (aletria)

    Serves: 4
    Cooking Time: 15 mins

    Ingredients

    • 100g angel-hair pasta
    • 500ml (2 cups) milk
    • 110g castor sugar
    • strip lemon rind
    • 1 cinnamon stick
    • 45g butter
    • 4 egg yolks
    • zest of 1 lemon
    • ground cinnamon, to serve

    Instructions

    1

    Cook the pasta in boiling water according to packet instructions until al dente. Drain and add the milk, sugar, lemon rind and cinnamon stick. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, about 5 minutes. Remove the lemon rind and cinnamon stick.

    2

    Add the butter to the pasta. In a bowl, beat the egg yolks and add to the pasta. Simmer over a very low heat to cook the egg, 5 minutes. Add the lemon zest and remove from heat. Pour into a serving dish and serve sprinkled with ground cinnamon. Serve warm or once it has cooled.

     

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