{{Short description|Italian doughnut}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Italics title}} {{Infobox food | name = ''Frittelle'' | image = Carnival Frittelle (250677305).jpeg | image_size = 250px | caption = | alternate_name = ''Frìtołe, fritule'' | country = Italy | region = | creator = | course = | type = Doughnut | served = | main_ingredient = Dough, raisins, orange and lemon zest | variations = }}
'''''Frittella''''' ({{plural form}}: ''frittelle'') is a type of Italian fried doughnut made from dough, typically with raisins, orange peels, or lemon peel in them. They are eaten in and around the Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto regions; however, ''frittelle'' originated around the Giuliani areas of Trieste and Venice. Many variations are common, including custard and chocolate fillings.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beaulieu |first1=Linda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fcQyWqvfOkcC&pg=PA16 |title=The Providence and Rhode Island Cookbook: Big Recipes from the Smallest State |publisher=Globe Pequot |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7627-3137-4 |page=16}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Howell |first1=Charles Fish |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EqIvAAAAYAAJ&dq=frittole&pg=PA310 |title=Around the clock in Europe: a travel-sequence |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |year=1912 |page=310}}</ref> They are fried in oil until golden brown and sprinkled with sugar.
''Frittelle'' are included in the ''British Museum Cookbook'' by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson<ref>{{cite book |first1=Michelle |last1=Berriedale-Johnson |title=British Museum Cookbook |publisher=British Museum |year=1987 |page=113}}</ref> and a book about Venice from 1879.<ref>{{cite book |first1=William Henry Davenport |last1=Adams |url=https://archive.org/details/queenadriaticor00adamgoog |title=The queen of the Adriatic: or, Venice past and present |publisher=T. Nelson |year=1869 |page=[https://archive.org/details/queenadriaticor00adamgoog/page/n247 239]}}</ref>
thumb|''Frittelle di Carnevale veneziane'' They are known as ''frìtołe'' in Venetian and ''frittelle'' or ''frittole'' in Italian. Similar to ''bomboloni'', ''frìtołe'' are round, yeast-risen fried pastries, and are served only during Carnival in a number of different forms, including ''frìtołe veneziane'', which are unfilled and have pine nuts and raisins stirred into the dough, and several filled varieties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://venicetravelblog.com/2010/02/frittelle-venices-carnival-doughnuts.html|title=Frittelle: Venice's Carnival doughnuts|website=Venice Travel Blog|access-date=8 June 2024|archive-date=12 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231112011857/https://venicetravelblog.com/2010/02/frittelle-venices-carnival-doughnuts.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Fillings include pastry cream, zabaione, and occasionally less common fillings such as apple or chocolate custard cream.
thumb|''Fritulis'' In Friuli, they are called ''fritulis''.
In the ''comune'' (municipality) of Molfetta, located in the Apulia region, ''frittelle'' (sometimes spelt ''frittelli'') is used as another name for panzerotti.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.quindici-molfetta.it/tradizioni-molfettesi-tra-le-frittelle-di-san-martino-e-il-ricordo-di-un-lettore-di-quindici_20766.aspx|title=Tradizioni molfettesi: Tra le frittelle di San Martino e il ricordo di un lettore di Quindici|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.molfettalive.it/news/Attualit%C3%A0/164555/news.aspx|title=Degustazione di frittelle al Centro polivalente per disabili|publisher=|access-date=8 June 2024|archive-date=14 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714042414/https://www.molfettalive.it/news/Attualit%C3%A0/164555/news.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==''Fritula''== thumb|''Fritule'' (''miške'') [[File:Fritule Badnjak 1209.jpg|thumb|''Fritule'' made for Christmas Eve]] In Croatia, ''frittelle'' are called ''fritule'' ({{singular}}: ''fritula'') and are made particularly for Christmas. They are usually flavored with rum and citrus zest, containing raisins, and are topped with powdered sugar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Croatian Fritule {{!}} Christmas Cookie {{!}} recipes |url=https://www.clevelandwomen.com/house/rec-cccroat.htm |access-date=10 January 2024 |website=www.clevelandwomen.com}}</ref> A variant with potatoes is also made in the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 October 2023 |title=Jeste li čuli za crnogorske fritule? Ne upijaju ulje i gotove su za čas, isprobajte starinski recept iz Boke Kotorske! |url=https://slobodnadalmacija.hr/mozaik/spiza/slano/jeste-li-culi-za-crnogorske-fritule-ne-upijaju-ulje-i-gotove-su-za-cas-isprobajte-starinski-recept-iz-boke-kotorske-1333272 |access-date=3 September 2024 |work=Slobodna Dalmacija |language=hr-hr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903094853/https://slobodnadalmacija.hr/mozaik/spiza/slano/jeste-li-culi-za-crnogorske-fritule-ne-upijaju-ulje-i-gotove-su-za-cas-isprobajte-starinski-recept-iz-boke-kotorske-1333272 |archive-date=3 September 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> Another variant of the dish, called ''miške'', is prepared in Slovenia.
==See also== {{Portal|Italy|Food}} * List of Italian desserts and pastries * List of doughnut varieties * List of fried dough foods * Nun's puffs
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==External links== {{Commons category|Fritule}} * [http://www.cookaround.com/yabbse1/showthread.php?t=13938 Photographs and cooking instructions] * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/-cice-/3260602910/ Photograph] * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/aldoaldoz/3261875199/ Photograph] * http://www.clevelandwomen.com/house/rec-cccroat.htm
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