2. EASTER “MONA”
Mona Easter is a typical food of the
Valencia Community. Eating her
symbolizes that lent and its abstinence
has run.
ORIGIN
The name comes from the
manna Arabic term meaning
'provision of the mouth', gift
that the morocco's did to
their Lords.
3. Mona takes one or more eggs
(depending on size) with the
painted shell (Easter eggs).
These eggs are introduced as
decorative element but also
help to give way to sweet.
The forms are very diverse although
they tend to be of any animal as a
snake, lizard, and usually coated by
anisettes of colors.
4. Mona is usually consumed during
the days of Passover with
Easter sausage snack being
usual crack the egg in front of
another person.
It is also possible to accompany her
chocolate if mona has been sprinkling
sugar and lacks the boiled egg
5. It is tradition to go on excursions to the countryside to spend the
afternoon eating the mona and play with some Comet (rout),
jump rope, play the roll and typical songs, as the tarara
6. INGREDIENTS FOR THE CUTE EASTER
• 500 grams of flour
• 1 envelope dry yeast (25 gr.)
• 1/4 litre of warm milk
• 100 gr. of melted butter
• 80 gr. of sugar
• 1 egg
• a little salt
To "paint" the mass
• 1 yema de huevo
• 1 cucharada de leche
For decoration
• Anisetes of colors, chocolate balls,
raisins, cherries for garnish, almond
laminadas…
• Boiled eggs painted with food dye or
chocolate eggs
7. HOW TO PREPARE EASTER MONKEYS
1- We put the flour in a bowl. Add the dry yeast and mix it well with
a fork. Add the rest of ingredients: butter (previously her have
melted in the microwave), milk, sugar, egg and a pinch of salt.
Beat it everything in the
blender and give way
round to the dough with
your hands, leaving us a
mass as in the picture
How to prepare easter monkeys part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01eK3p
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8. 2- Cover the bowl with a cloth and put it in the oven for about 20-
30 minutes to a maximum temperature of 50 degrees, up to see
that the mass has levado.
3- .While the mass
grows, we cover a tray
of oven with vellum.
Here we have to shape
the dough with the
figures you want,
decorate with balls of
color, painted boiled
eggs, sliced almonds,
sugar…
9. 4- We them another 10 minutes in the oven at maximum 50
degrees, so the mass to keep growing. Once we have our lists
figures, mix with a tablespoon of milk egg yolk and paint the
cute with this mixture, so golden-brown in the oven and add the
decoration.
5- With our figures already ready and decorated we put them in
the oven preheated to 200 degrees for about 25-30 minutes,
until we see that they are ready and that he has caught a
suitable color.
6- We draw them from the oven, let them cool and we put the eggs
painted or chocolate as decoration.
How to prepare easter monkeys part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e554FvNGnww
