Ingredients
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Method
- Peel the lemon in strips, without the white pith. In a pan, boil 250 ml of water with the salt and butter, add the vermicelli broken by hand and cook for 3 minutes, stirring with a fork, until it absorbs the water.
- Add the milk, lemon peel and cinnamon stick and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring now and then with the fork so the strands do not stick together.
- Add the sugar and stir for 5 more minutes, until creamy. Turn off the heat and remove the lemon peel and cinnamon stick.
- Separate the eggs and beat the yolks in a bowl; stir in 2 tablespoons of the hot vermicelli; pour into the pan and stir for 1 minute over the lowest heat, without boiling.
- Pour into a serving dish, let it cool and decorate with the ground cinnamon.
Shopping tip
Wheat aletria (in nests) is with the pasta in every chain; do not confuse it with rice vermicelli for Asian cooking. Keep the egg whites for farófias.
Where it fits in your week
Quick enough for a weeknight.
At the portions as written, there is enough for a second meal.
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Times, portions and protein per portion are the recipe author's estimates, not laboratory measurements.