Name: Sebadas (Sardinian Honey Fritters)
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 250 ml/8 fl oz/1 cup boiling water; grated rind of 1 lemon; 500 g/1 ¼ lb/5 cups cream cheese; 60 ml/4 tbsp clear honey; sunflower oil, for deep-frying; a pinch of salt; 45 ml/3 tbsp lard or white cooking fat; 500 g/1¼ lb plain/all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting; 30 ml/2 tbsp fine semolina

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

About

These sticky and sweet ravioli fritters are called sebadas and are a classic dessert from the unique and beautiful island of Sardinia. They are traditionally filled with local creamy sheep’s milk cheese (but any cream cheese can be used instead) and drizzled with fragrant orange blossom honey. They are one of the typical sweet recipes of the mountainous, sparsely populated area of Barbagia, which is located just south of the central part of the island.