Recipe of the Week: Piedmontese Gofri

Gofri, or goffri, are a true Piedmontese street food.

They are simple waffles made with just three ingredients: water, flour and yeast. They look much like French waffles, called gaufres.
They are cooked in special plates called "gofriera”, two overlapping cast iron plates similar to those used in the Catholic tradition to make wafers.

In the past, gofri used to accompany a meal or simply like bread. Today, you can enjoy both sweet and savory gofri, stuffed with cheese, vegetables, tomatoes or covered with honey, jam or nutella.

Ingredients for about 30 gofri:

• 1 kg of flour
• 1 liter of warm water
• Half cube of yeast (about 12 gr)
• oil to grease the plates

Directions:

Mix the flour with the warm water where you have previously dissolved the yeast to obtain a liquid batter without lumps. Let rest and rise for about 2 hours.

Shortly before cooking, add a pinch of salt.
Heat the gofriera, grease both plates and pour the batter with a dipper. Close the plates and turn them often from side to side. Cook for about 5 minutes. Gofri is ready when easily detaches from the plates and has a crisp consistency.

If you don’t have a gofriera, heat well the traditional pan, then grease it, pour the batter and cook for about five minutes on each side. In this case, however, gofri will lose their typical honeycomb pattern on surface.

Buon appetito!