Recipe of Homemade Ricotta Pie

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This recipe for a Lattice Topped Ricotta Pie can easily be prepared in advance until ready to be served. Perfect for an Italian Easter celebration. Ricotta cheese pie is an Italian-style cheesecake that uses ricotta instead of cream cheese. It's a traditional Easter dessert in Italy, and as with many Italian recipes, flavors and ingredients can vary.

Ricotta Pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Ricotta Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have ricotta pie using 12 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Ricotta Pie:

1. Get 2 pounds Ricotta Cheese, Well Drained
2. Make ready 1 Cup Sugar
3. Prepare 5 eggs
4. Get 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
5. Make ready 1/2 lemon zest
6. Get 3 cups flour
7. Prepare 2 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
8. Make ready 6 Tablespoon sugar
9. Make ready 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter
10. Prepare 3 eggs
11. Get 1 teaspoon vanilla
12. Take 3 Tablespoon cold water

For filling, combine ricotta cheese, flour, salt, lemon and orange rinds and vanilla. Beat in eggs and add sugar gradually. In a large bowl with an electric mixer, beat the ricotta with the sugar until smooth. Add ricotta and sour cream and beat until well incorporated.

Instructions to make Ricotta Pie:

1. Use Premade crust or make crust with the following directions
2. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt
3. Cut in butter and blend until it resembles coarse crumbs
4. Mix 3 eggs with water
5. Add to dry ingredients and form a dough
6. Wrap in plastic and chill until firm
7. Divide dough into four portions
8. Roll dough into two 1/8 inch thick circles
9. Place into two 9 inch pie plates
10. Roll remaining portions to 1/8 inch rounds and cut into 1/2 inch strips for lattice OR use cookie cutters to decorate top of pie
11. Filling:
12. Beat ricotta, lemon zest, vanilla, and sugar until smooth
13. Add eggs — one at a time — beating after each addition
14. Pour into crust
15. Make lattice or place top shell on top of filling
16. Carefully Crimp Edges
17. Two 9 inch pie plates: 350ºF for 45 - 60 minutes
18. Cool and chill

In a large bowl with an electric mixer, beat the ricotta with the sugar until smooth. Add ricotta and sour cream and beat until well incorporated. Add egg yolks and egg one at a time, beating well between each addition. And protein as you know is- a very important building block of the body. It also contains phosphorus which boosts our energy level.

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