Pizza Rustica
40 mins prep30 mins cook
Who doesn’t love holiday baking anyone of the year? Our family got together to make our traditional Easter pies this weekend.
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Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Prepare a pie plate by buttering it and then taking about 1/2 tablespoon of flour sprinkling it around the bottom of the pie plate. In a medium sized bowl add the butter by cutting it up into cubes. Add in the sugar, then mash the butter, and sugar together. Add the eggs and milk to the butter and sugar. With a hand mixer on low setting, mix for 2 minutes to incorporate In a separate bowl mix together your dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, and pepper). Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Start to mix with a rubber spatula or your hands. It will start to form a dough mixture. As it starts to form use your hands to continue mixing the ingredients together. The dough should be soft, but not sticky..You may have to add a little more milk depending upon how it feels. Once you have formed a ball of dough let it rest while you prepare the filling. FILLING In a large bowl mix together the ricotta, eggs, Parmesan cheese, cornstarch, and cream. **Make sure to add the cornstarch to the 1/2 cup of cream and mix in there before you add it to the bowl. Add the meats and cheese to the ricotta mixture and fold in. Add fresh black pepper as desired. ASSEMBLY Prepare to roll out the dough. Sprinkle some flour down on a flat surface and put some flour on your rolling pin as well. This helps keep the dough from sticking to the rolling pin and surface. Take about 1/3 of the dough and roll it out into a flat, thin circle. Place the dough over the pie plate so that it overflows the borders. Add the filling making sure you fill up the pie plate evenly. If there is a lot of dough overflow use a sharp knife to cut away the extra dough. You can use that extra dough to roll out again and make strips to put over the top of the pie. Take the egg yolk and beat it for the egg wash. Brush the egg yolk over the top of the pie. Before putting it in the oven cover the edges of the pie with foil. The edges tend to cook quick than the rest of the pie and it burns. The pie will be in the oven for a total of 1 hour and 30 minutes. After about 45 minutes into baking remove the foil. Let the edges bake the rest of time. Remove from the oven and let it cool before serving! Buona Pasqua!View original recipe