Rustic Pizza

Pizza Rustica

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6–8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Italian Regional Cookery

By Valentina Harris

Published 1990

  • About

Many variations of this classic Campanian dish are cooked and enjoyed all over the country. It is a very distant cousin to the original Pizza with its tomato topping, and should not be confused with it in any way. Pizza rustica is very much a dish in its own right and the filling can vary according to who makes it. Although the original recipe calls for basic pastry, nowadays it is often made with bread dough,