Agnello con finocchi selvatici alla sarda

Lamb, Fennel, and Bread Casserole from Sardinia

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Italian Slow and Savory

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 2004

  • About

This dish bears a resemblance to a Turkish dish called talas borek in which stewed lamb and cheese are layered within a thin pastry crust. The Sardinians make an unusual flat bread called pane carasau, or “music paper bread,” so named because it is paper-thin like aging sheet music. The bread resembles lahvosh in that it can be dried for storage and then moistened and rolled around a filling. It is used to line the bottom of the stew pot, in the manner of a panada