SCACCIA
INGREDIENTS
3 pre-stretched pizza doughs (rectangular) or 900 g homemade pizza dough
200 g hot scamorza or provolone (available in Italian grocery stores and cheese shops)
For the tomato sauce
800 g passata (crushed tomatoes mixed) 2 tablespoon(s) olive oil 2 cloves garlic 1 onion
1 teaspoon(s) powdered sugar 1/2 bunch basil pepper from the mill
PREPARATION OF THE RECIPE "SCACCIA"
- Prepare the tomato sauce: peel and chop the onion.
- Peel, degerm and finely chop the garlic.
- In a casserole, brown the onion in the hot olive oil for 5 minutes.
- Add garlic and continue cooking for 3 minutes without browning.
- Pour in the passata, sugar and lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper.
- Cook to simmer 20 minutes. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
- Remove from heat, add washed and chopped basil to sauce. Let it cool down.
- Preheat the oven to 7/210°.
- Line a cake pan with baking paper.
- Cut the cheese into thin slices.
- Unroll the pasta on the floured work surface. Weld them together to form a large rectangle.
- Spread a thin layer of tomato sauce on the middle third of the dough. Add half the cheese.
- Fold the edges without sauce towards the centre, overlapping.
- Brush again with sauce and spread remaining cheese.
- Fold the edges of the dough to make a rectangle about the length of the pan.
- Place the dough in the pan. Bake for 1 hour. Unmould, let cool for 10 minutes and serve.
http://www.elle.fr/Elle-a-Table/Recettes-de-cuisine/Scaccia-3497138
