Italian Cooking Lesson: Pizza Capricciosa

Livestreamed from Italy on March 26, 2020 at the very beginning of the Covid lockdowns. Culture Discovery Vacations hosts Italian cooking, culinary and wine tours throughout Italy and Portugal, and all of our vacations feature live hands-on cooking classes. Since we could not be with wonderful guests in person, Carla, the chef-instructor from our main location in Italy began live streaming cooking classes while the world was locked down... for free... just to be together in harmony.

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Recipe:

100 gr. (1 cup) pork lard or margarine
300 gr. (2 cups) of mortadella (cut thick) (you can substitute with hot salami or prosciutto cut in cubes)
300 gr. (2 cups) of swiss cheese cut in cubes
Salt
3 teaspoons (16 gr) of active dry yeast
500 gr. (1 lb.) of flour Type 00
3 eggs+ 1 for brushing pizza
4 tablespoons of milk (whole or 2%)

Melt the lard (or margarine).
Beat the 3 eggs
Warm the milk and stir in the yeast
Then slowly add the flour, the lard, the yeast and then add the cheese and mortadella.
The dough is supposed to be soft
Spread some lard in a baking dish (2-3” depth of baking dish) .
Let it rise for about 2-3 hours
Brush with one beaten egg
Pre heat oven at 200C (375F)

Bake until the top is golden and when you insert a toothpick in the middle it comes out dry
This is very good served warm or cold with colds cuts and cheeses, and of course some wine