Panini di Pasqua

Spicy Easter Rolls

Preparation info
  • Makes

    16

    rolls
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
In Nonna's Kitchen

By Carol Field

Published 1997

  • About

These spicy Easter rolls are like hot cross buns with a lot of character. They are eaten with a hard-boiled egg in Arezzo and surrounding areas on the day of Easter, but I would eat them all year round. The dough is essentially the bread of every day with the addition of such special ingredients as Vin Santo and saffron and a number of tantalizing spices that include cloves, cinnamon, coriander, and even juniper berries. Two millennia ago, Romans sprinkled flowers and powdered saffron on th