Italian Pizza Fritta Fried Dough

Italian Traditional Fried Feast Dough, Italian Pizza Fritta or well known as Zeppole! If you have never tried fried pizza dough, you are missing out. This is a special Italian treat we make often here in our home. Mom would start our Sunday breakfast off with this delicious fried dough before our big traditional Sunday Sauce meal.
We always looked forward to Sunday morning with that fresh smell of fried dough. This is a specialty at every American Italian church feast in Upstate New York. Utica, New York is noted for the best homemade fried dough at all the church events during the summer months. It's usually fried right in front of you and served with either sugar or powdered sugar in paper bags.

So Many Names and Kinds

Fried dough, Pizza Fritta, Pizza Fritte, Fried Doughnuts, Zeppole, Funnel Cakes, Beignets, Johnny Cakes are just a few names of fried dough.


There are so many versions. Italian fried dough is pizza dough, deep fried and sprinkled with either powdered sugar or granulated sugar.


Carnivals, feasts, outdoor picnics, and backyard events, often make these dessert treats to serve.

The Best Quick Italian Dessert

Whether you make this on the stove top, side burner on the grill, fireplace or deep fryer, it sure is easy and tasty!


Fried dough is popular throughout the world in so many shapes and forms.


The Italian version is simply pizza dough is sprinkled with sugar.


The other parts of the world can be very different in how they prepare it.


There is even fried biscuit dough on Chinese American buffets!

Italian Fried Dough

A powdery wonderful Italian treat to make, we can never make enough of them!


Just like at those old fashioned Italian feasts, oh yeah, back in Upstate NY all summer long you can enjoy these beauties at the local Catholic Church feasts.

A Hometown Italian Speciality!

It's so simple, but a life long memory and made by most Italians all over the world, especially in East Utica, N.Y.


Growing up in N.Y. this was a special treat that was at every Italian feast.

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Awesome on the Grill!

You can also enjoy them in your backyard in a cast iron skillet pan right on your own grill.


There's nothing to it!


Here is a recipe, that has been passed down for many generations.

Fried Dough Has So Many Names

Fried dough, Zeppole, pizza fritte, pizza fritta, doughnuts, and the South call them fritters!



Where ever your way is to make this or want to call this, fried dough in any Region of the world is one of the finest addictions.


Ours, Italian style is an amazingly easy dessert.


You can never have enough, and once you make it yourself, you will wonder how you lived so long without trying this wonder delicious dough fried with sugar.

People would be lined up to buy dozens at a time.

Worth the Wait

They sometimes waited for hours in that line waiting for them to make them fresh right in front of your batch.



They went fast. They put them in a paper bag with powdered sugar or regular sugar on them.



Everyone knew it was worth the wait! But boy did it piss me off as they bought all of them in front of me before I got mine.



I would have to wait so long! But it was worth the wait for these Italian Pizza Fritta Fried Dough with sugar warm in a bag!

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Pizza Dough

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Author: Claudia Lamascolo

Italian Pizza Fritta Fried Dough

prep time: 15 min cook time: 25 min total time: 40 mins

A fried pizza dough with sugar on it!

ingredients:

4 1/2 cups of all purpose flour or bread flour

1 pk dry yeast dissolved in 2 cups luke warm water

1 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons sugar

4 tablespoons olive oil

instructions:

Mix until dough forms a smooth dough and if still sticky add a little more flour by tablespoon at a time. Place in a bowl, cover with a towel that has been dampened and wait until double in size as it rises. Stretch out around two tablespoons of dough into a circle poking a hole in the center like a doughnut. Place on a cookie sheet, lined with wax paper. In the meantime, heat the oil in a fry pan, on medium-low heat. Place a little piece of dough, (the size of a dime) in the oil to see if it sizzles and it hot enough. Place the stretched out dough into the oil and fry on both sides until golden brown. Take out of oil when done, place on paper towels to drain oil. Sprinkle with regular white sugar, powdered sugar or flavored sugar such as cinnamon and sugar.

Note: Living in Florida with great weather all year round, we cooked this outside on our grill with a side burner, in a heated cast iron skillet, these are so light, crisp and delicious. The fried dough has been a special treat for years in our family and you will find them at Italian Feasts in Upstate NY to be very popular. Always a great treat. Over the years this one has been passed down from generation to generation and is always a favorite with the children. Of course, if you aren't so lucky to have great weather to cook outside, just pour oil in a frying pan and fry your dough on both sides till nice and brown, add sugar and serve!

calories
112

fat (grams)
5

sat. fat (grams)
2

carbs (grams)
4

protein (grams)
6

sugar (grams)
6

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