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Recipe: Corsican fiadone cheesecake 

This easy-to-make cake is a traditional crowd-pleasing dessert

Fiadone is typically served on holidays including New Year's Eve and Easter
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Fiadone takes its name from the Italian for flan, although it's a type of flourless cheesecake made combining lemon with a thick Corsican fromage frais called brocciu (ricotta makes a good substitute). 

Fusing Italian and French influences, this is a simple and quick dessert to whip up. In Corsica, the fiadone is typically prepared for holidays like New Year's Eve and Easter, although it is also eaten all year round. 

It is usually eaten cold, and can be accompanied by a coulis of citrus fruits. 

Add a Christmassy touch by making it with Corsican clementines, or oranges, instead.

Serves 8 people

Ingredients

  • 500g of brocciu cheese (substitute with ricotta if you can't find it)
  • 5 eggs
  • 150g sugar
  • zest of one lemon

Method

  1. Strain any excess water off the cheese, mash it and mix it with the eggs without beating them.
  2. Add the sugar and the lemon zest.
  3. Pour the batter into a buttered rectangular baking dish and bake for 25 minutes at 180 degrees until golden.
  4. Allow to cool before cutting into portions.
Two pieces of fiadone on a saucer with strawberries
Fiadone is sometimes described as Corsican cheesecake

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