Colivă with pearled wheat and walnuts
Colivă (sweet boiled-grain memorial dish): well-cooked pearled wheat, ground walnuts and a hint of lemon. A traditional recipe, made without rushing and simply decorated.
Classic method
Ingredients
- 500 g pearled wheat
- 1.75 l water, plus a little hot water if needed
- 350 g sugar
- 350 g shelled walnuts
- 48 g vanilla sugar (6 sachets of 8 g)
- 5 tsp finely grated lemon zest (yellow part only)
- 1 pinch of salt
- 30 g icing sugar to decorate, optional
- A few walnut halves to decorate, optional
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How to make it
- Rinse the wheat in several changes of water and put it into a heavy-based pot with the water and salt.
- Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat. Simmer gently for 50–60 minutes, until the grains are soft. Stir from time to time and add a little hot water if the liquid runs low before the wheat is cooked.
- Add the sugar and cook for another 10–15 minutes, stirring often, until the mixture comes together. The wheat should stay moist and creamy; it firms up as it cools.
- Transfer it to two shallow dishes. Cover the surface with baking paper, let it cool and put it in the fridge within two hours at most. Leave it to chill overnight.
- Grind the walnuts, keeping a few larger pieces if you like the texture. Mix the cold wheat with the walnuts, vanilla sugar and lemon zest.
- Spread it on a platter, level it and decorate with icing sugar and walnuts, to taste. Keep it in the fridge until serving.
Thermomix adaptation TM6
The TM6 helps you grind the walnuts. The wheat is cooked in a pot, and the mixture is combined in a bowl.
Ingredients
- 500 g pearled wheat
- 1.75 l water, plus a little hot water if needed
- 350 g sugar
- 350 g shelled walnuts
- 48 g vanilla sugar (6 sachets of 8 g)
- 5 tsp finely grated lemon zest (yellow part only)
- 1 pinch of salt
- 30 g icing sugar to decorate, optional
- A few walnut halves to decorate, optional
How to make it
- Cook and cool the wheat following the first four steps of the classic method.
- Put the walnuts into the clean, dry mixing bowl. Close the lid and insert the measuring cup. Chop 5 sec / speed 5. Check the texture and add another 2–3 sec if you want the walnuts finer.
- Transfer the walnuts to a large bowl. Add the cold wheat, vanilla sugar and lemon zest and mix by hand.
- Spread it on a platter and decorate to taste.
Estimated nutritional values*
Per serving: 1/20 of the mixture, without decoration.
- Energy
- approx. 295 kcal
- Protein
- approx. 5,6 g
- Carbohydrates
- approx. 40,7 g
- Fat
- approx. 12,1 g
Values vary with the ingredients and the portion size. Salt added to taste is not included.
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