Bianco Family Pizza Chiena

While Pizza Rustica and Pizza Chiena are similar, the latter started out with a yeast dough crust and was made like a Neapolitan calzone. Today in southern Italy and among many Italian American families, either sweet or unsweetened pastry dough is used and the pie is baked in a tin. I always use sweet dough for the simple reason that that’s the way my family did it. The fresh basket cheese used in the filling of this pie is all but impossible to obtain, even in New York