Latte dolce fritto

01 / ABOUT THE DISH

About the dish

Latte dolce fritto, or sweet fried milk , is a typical Ligurian snack consisting of milk turned into a custard with the addition of flour, cornstarch, and eggs. The cream is left to harden, cut into pieces, coated in breadcrumbs, and then fried in oil, resulting in little crispy cubes with a thick, creamy, custardy interior that oozes through the broken crust. Latte dolce fritto can be enjoyed both warm or cold, served on its own as a sweet treat generously dusted with powdered sugar, but it is also often combined with another local delicacy, fritto misto , a popular Genoese mixed fry-up consisting of different kinds of vegetables and pieces of meat or fish.