Name: Pizza Casareccia
Yield: Serves 4 generously
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 heaped teaspoon (½ sachet) easy-blend dried yeast, or 3 tablespoons fresh; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; approximately 150 ml warm water; fresh parmesan, mozzarella or cheese of your choice; 5 anchovies, optional; 4 slices fine-cut ham; 2–3 pinches dried oregano; 2–3 gherkins, chopped; 200 g tinned chopped tomatoes; 250 g plain flour, preferably Italian 00

Preparation info

Serves
4
generously

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

While we all struggle to produce that thin-crusted, charcoal-redolent pizzaiolo’s pizza and fail, the Italians recognize that you need to go to the pizzeria for that and have instead devised a home-made alternative, doughier and with more topping, but very good in its own but different way.

I’ve marked the anchovies for the topping as optional, but in truth all of it is. And as for the cheese, don’t worry if you don’t have parmesan or mozzarella: Italians are mad about Cheddar on pi