Ricotta cheese pie

Ingredients

For the dough

• 250g all furpose flour
• 150g butter
• 2 egg yolks
• 100g white sugar

For the cream

• 300g unsalted ricotta cheese
• 150g icing sugar
• 1/2 lemon
• 2 eggs

Directions

Take a large bowl and put all the ingredients for the dough together. Mix well with your hands, trying to be as quick as possible. Make a ball with the dough, cover it an put in the fridge.

In another bowl, put the ricotta cheese, and crush it with a fork. Then, add the sugar and mix well with a mixer. (or with a hand whisk)
Add the egg yolks, and mix well.
Squeeze the lemon, and grate the skin, and put together in the ricotta cream. Mix gently with a spoon. In a little bowl or mug, whip the white of the eggs, until they rise. Add to the cream.

Take the dough, cut 3/4 of it, and form a circle with the rolling pin. Move this circle into a cake pan, and pierce the base a bit with the fork.

Pour the cream in, flatter it a bit with a spoon. Decorate with the rest of the dough.

Put into the oven at 170°C, for about 30/40 min.

Serve it cool.