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Scaccia Siciliana – Sicilian Scaccia recipe from – Italian Cuisine

»Scaccia Siciliana - Sicilian Scaccia recipe from Misya


First of all, prepare the dough: put the semolina in a bowl, pour the yeast, honey and water in the center and start kneading, then add salt and oil and knead until you get a smooth and homogeneous dough.

Cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and leave to rise in a warm place protected from drafts for at least 2 hours or until doubled in volume.

Meanwhile, season the tomato with salt, oil and basil and let it cook for about ten minutes, then let it cool.
Take back the leavened dough, deflate it gently with your hands, divide it into 3 equal parts and roll out each piece into a thin sheet on the floured work surface.
Season with the tomato (without overdoing it, so as not to risk making the pastry soft), the provola cheese cut into thin slices and the finely grated caciocavallo.

Bring the 2 side edges towards the center, joining them together, then sprinkle with more tomato (if you want, you can also add more cheese) and fold the other 2 edges over each other (first bring one up to cover the central third , then with the second cover the first, sealing the edges), as you can see in the photo.

Once all 3 scacce have been prepared, place them on the baking sheet lined with parchment paper, brush with oil, then cook for about 30 minutes or until golden brown in a preheated convection oven at 220 ° C.

The Sicilian scaccia is ready, let it at least cool before serving, or you will burn yourself with hot cheese and tomato.

Anchovy pie, the recipe of the La Siciliana restaurant in Catania – Italian Cuisine


Il Tortino di Alici, a great classic of Sicilian cuisine to be made at home, with the recipe of the restaurant in Buon Ricordo, La Siciliana di Catania

The anchovy pie is one of the tastiest expressions of the Catania tradition. Simple materials, typical of the area, come together to create a final result in which the individual flavors mix with harmony, maintaining their own particularity. The strong flavor of anchovies, blue fish, goes perfectly with that of local cheese, all refreshed by the presence of fennel, in a tart whose recipe is handed down from generation to generation. Ideal example of how simplicity and tradition can lead to haute cuisine results.

This is how chef Vito La Rosa prepares it at his restaurant, The Sicilian of Catania. In the upper part of the city, in a nineteenth-century villa, it offers traditional island dishes. Among these, there are well-known Catania specialties: such as rigatoni of fresh pasta alla Norma, with tomato, eggplant and pecorino, dedicated to the musician Bellini, or 'u ripiddu nivicatu', in which Etna is reproduced as a cone of risotto with black cuttlefish, with the top garnished with ricotta as if it were snow and spicy tomato sauce like incandescent lava.
The anchovy pie, a dish of Buon Ricordo, is inevitable.

Ingredients for 4 people

600 g delice anchovies
150 g crumb of fresh homemade bread
200 g Diced semi-seasoned Ragusano DOP
50 g grated old pecorino
100 g wild fennel
chopped parsley
salt, pepper, extra virgin olive oil

Method

Grease a 24 cm cake tin and arrange the anchovies lining the inside of the cake tin.
Stuff with breadcrumbs, Ragusano, pecorino cheese, wild fennel, salt, pepper, parsley.
Cover with the remaining anchovies and sprinkle with oil. Bake for about 20 minutes at 180 degrees. After cooking, leave to rest for 10 minutes. Turn out and cut into wedges and serve with tufts of parsley.

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