Herbs pizza

Herbs pizza

Italian traditional pizza is Neapolitan pizza. This is not it - it's a very different dish that just happens to share the same name (as is the case with many Italian traditional recipes).

By CookbookSocial

Source: https://publicdomainrecipes.com/herbs-pizza/ — pestanzul · publicdomainrecipes.com

Ingredients

  • Dough:
  • flour (0 or 00) — 350 g
  • butter — 25 g
  • brewer's yeast — 15 g
  • extra-virgin olive oil or lard
  • Stuffing:
  • boiled herbs (e.g. spinach, chicory, ribwort) — 500 g
  • ricotta — 250 g
  • pepper (optional)
  • nutmeg (optional)

Steps

  1. Carefully dry the herbs and cut them finely.
  2. Mix them with ricotta, salt, pepper and nutmeg.
  3. Knead flour with warm water and a little salt, and oil or lard.
  4. Add softened butter and yeast and knead a soft dough.
  5. Divide the dough in two parts and roll out each of them to a thickness of about 1 cm.
  6. Place the first disc on baking paper in a baking tray.
  7. Cover with the other disc and stick them together all over the border.
  8. Cover with a cloth and let it rise.
  9. Pierce gently all over the top layer with a fork.
  10. Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
  11. Place the pie in the oven and cook for 30 minutes.

More recipes