Broccoli in pastella

Ingredients

1 kg of broccoli
150 gr. of corn meal
10 gr. of yeast
20 gr. of butter
2 eggs
salt and pepper
1 litre of seed oil.

Directions

Cut to pieces the broccoli and boil it in salt-water. Prepared the “pastella” with flour, yeast melted in a glass of lukewarm water and the fused butter. Add salt and an entire egg. Let stand for some minute and stirring constantly. Cover the “pastella” with a cotton cloth and attend an hour, until to it leavens. Add the white of egg whip to a froth. Put on the fire a pot with 500 ml of oil. When the oil will warm, you take the pieces of broccoli, dip it in the “pastella” and therefore in the oil. Fry the broccoli. When it is gold, put it on a sheet of blotting paper in order to eliminate the superfluous oil. Serve it warm. Optimal in “pastella” also artichoke and the thistles.