Let’s go to the market!To buy the ingredients.

INGREDIENTS:• 500 gr ground almonds.• 400 sugar.• 250 gr of sweet potato or

baked potato.• Zest of one lemon.• 3 Eggs.

To decorate: * Pine nuts. * or almonds.

How to make “Panellets”:

• Mash the potatoes and mix with sugar, lemon zest and almonds.

• Separate the egg yolks from the whites and set aside. Add the yolks to the mixture of potato and almond. Stir well to mix.

• Divide the mass in to small balls using your hands. Once you have this cover a plate in the almonds , pine nuts, etc, and roll the balls over them so that the balls are covered.

• Line a baking tray with ovenproof paper. Distribute the Panellets evenly over the paper.

• Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees.• Paint the Panelletes with the egg white and put them into

the oven. Normally they are cooked after 10 minutes. It depends of the kind of oven you use.

• When they are golden brown remove them from the oven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auDm_EX5_Jk&feature=fvwrel

Let’s watch a spanish video about how to

prepare these small cakes.

In the video the woman doesn’t

use sweet potato.It’s optional.

You can decorate the Panellets with different nuts or fruits.

NAME THE INGREDIENTS AND MATCH THEM WITH THE WORDS

• Lemon.• Ground almond.• Eggs.• Sweet potato.• Sugar.

Now you know how to make panellets. Let’s try.They are

delicious.

Do not forget to eat the panellets

cold.

RECIPE’S HISTORY

Panellets are traditional Catalonian cuisine.

The Catalonian people eat these cakes on 31st of October, before the

day of ”All Saints”(a religious celebration).

BY NIEVES VÁZQUEZ