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Barbagiuan

Name: Barbagiuan
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Monaco
Ingredients: 250g All-purpose flour; 3 tbsp Olive oil; 2 Egg; 80ml Water; 200g Spinach; 150g Ricotta cheese; 40g Parmesan cheese; 1/2 Green Onion (Long); A pinch Oregano; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Chard and ricotta wrapped in thin dough and fried — Monaco's national fried pastry.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Barbagiuan means 'Uncle John' in Monégasque and is Monaco's signature dish: a filling of chard and spinach, ricotta, Parmesan, egg, and herbs is wrapped in small parcels of thin dough and fried. Indispensable on Monaco's National Day, November 19, they're also sold at bakeries.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a bakery in Monaco's old town, small fresh fried parcels go into paper bags and are eaten on cobbled slopes overlooking the harbor.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 250g
Olive oil 3 tbsp
Egg 2
Water 80ml
Spinach 200g
Ricotta cheese 150g
Parmesan cheese 40g
Green Onion (Long) 1/2
Oregano A pinch
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, olive oil, 1 egg, water, and a pinch of salt and rest 30 minutes.
Boil the spinach, squeeze, and chop finely.
Mix the spinach, ricotta, Parmesan, 1 egg, chopped green onion, oregano, salt, and pepper.
Roll the dough very thin, place small mounds of filling, wrap like ravioli, and press the edges.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.

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