Italian Recipes - Rustic Pizza (Pizza Rustica) Recipe

  
 

Italian Snacks and Light Meals Recipes - Rustic Pizza (Pizza Rustica) Recipe

 

Ingredients

  • 225 g/8 oz short crust pastry (basic pie crust)

  • 3 egg yolks

  • 350 g/12 oz/1 1/2 cups Ricotta cheese

  • 100 g/4 oz Mozzarella cheese, cut in small pieces

  • 175 ml/6 fl oz/3/4 cup milk

  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

  • 1.5 m/1/4 tsp cayenne

  • Chunky Tomato Sauce, to serve

Method:

  1. Rol1 out the pastry and use to line a 23 cm/9 in flan tin (pie pan).

  2. Fill with greaseproof (waxed) paper and baking beans and bake in a preheated oven at 190°C/375°F/gas mark 5 for 10 minutes.

  3. Take the pastry from the oven and remove the paper and baking beans.

  4. Beat the egg yolks and Ricotta together with the Mozzarella. Stir in the milk and season with the salt, pepper and cayenne.

  5. Pour into the pastry case and bake at 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4 for 40 minutes. Serve with Chunky Tomato Sauce.