Ricotta Bake

This incredibly easy and tasty ricotta dessert is one of the oldest recipes from the Italian Jewish repertoire and it is virtually unknown outside of the Roman Jewish community. It is popular throughout the year and is particularly well suited for Shavuot, when it is traditional to eat anything cheesy, and for Pesach with a dairy meal, as it has no flour.

Originally, it would have been cooked in an iron frying pan in a little olive oil. However, once ovens became commonplace, peo