Is called “cheese pizza”but this typical recipe from Umbrian tradition it is, instead, a sort of savoury cakehigh and soft, or rather, a seasoned bread. It is a preparation that recalls some others widespread in the regions of Central Italy and typical of Easter holidaysas the casatiello and the tortano Campania and the Easter grows Marche.

Umbrian cheese pizza is a festive bread, prepared like the others Easter bread to celebrate the rebirth and the return of spring. The “pagan” tradition then merged with that religiousand the spring celebrations overlapped with those for the resurrection of Christ.

Also called Easter cake, it goes well with cured meats, especially almonds capocollo, a typical sausage obtained from the meat obtained from the upper part of the pig’s neck. Cheese pizza with capocollo is part of the traditional Easter breakfastconsumed after “the bells are melted”, together with the coratella and the omelette.