Rustic Sicilian pizza 

The true trademark of Made in Italy cuisine is pizza. A dish associated with Italian cuisine, pizza has an ancient history and its origins lead to Southern Italy, to Campania, where meals were prepared with ingredients and techniques that are still in use today. Water, flour, salt, yeast and patience; Here are the ingredients to make the pizza dough. All you have to do is knead, wait for it to rise and proceed to create your pizza, from the most classic to the most elaborate toppings. And if in the world the homeland of pizza is the city of Naples where tasty and delicious variants are widespread, Sicilian pizza is also particularly renowned. Red like lava, with the scents of Sicily: capers from Pantelleria, black olives dried in the sun, anchovies from the Mediterranean, oregano from Etna. A pizza a little different from the usual for those who love strong flavors.

Ingredients

water 300 gr

oil 50 gr

yeast 20 gr

flour 500 gr

salt 15 gr

sugar 5 gr

caciocavallo cheese to taste

capers to taste

 black olives to taste

anchovies to taste

oregano to taste

Preparation

Roll out the dough in a classic round pizza pan, cover it with a generous amount of thick tomato puree and season with a little oil and a pinch of salt. In this recipe there is no mozzarella, but nothing prevents you from putting it, it will soften the flavors. Now arrange seven or eight anchovies in a radial pattern. If you have those beautiful black olives dried in the sun and then finished in the oven, we suggest you do not pit them so as not to destroy the fruit. Place them on the tomato bed together with a handful of washed and dried capers. A sprinkling of oregano leaves detached from the twigs and in the oven for baking. Here they are, some of the most intense scents of Sicily, all in a single and tasty pizza!