Pizza with ricotta cheese

3.2 (16 reviews)

Leggi in italiano

Pizza with ricotta cheese is a very good and easy to prepare Apulian cake. The filling of the sweets is a mix of fresh ricotta cheese, candied fruit, eggs, sugar, liqueur and grated orange peel.

Ingredients

For the shortcrust pastry

300 g flour
2 eggs
100 g sugar
8 g of baking powder
50 g olive oil (or butter)

For the filling

500 g fresh ricotta cheese
250 g sugar
2 packets of vanilla
3 egg yolks
100 g candied fruit
1 small glass of Liquore Strega
Grated orange peel

Serves
4

Prep.
time
40 min

Cooking
time
1 h

Total
time
1 h 40 min

Healthy

Rel. easy

780
calories
per person

Preparation

Preparation of the pastry

Mix together flour, sugar and baking powder.
Make a hole in the centre and add eggs and olive oil.
Mix together to form a firm dough.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and leave in the fridge for at least 1/2 hour.
Roll out with a rolling pin.

Preparation of the filling

Knead the ricotta cheese and add the egg yolks, mix well.
Add the grated orange rind, vanilla candied fruit and liquor and mix.

Final preparation

Lay half of the pastry on a baking dish and spread on top the mixture.
Cover with the other half pastry closing well on the edges.
Bake at 180 degrees for about 1 hour.

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