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My friend Chiara Cabrini (she is a relative of the famous Saint Francis Cabrini) gave me a recipe book as a present. On the first page she wrote the recipe of “piadina”, a kind of flat bread very well known in the center of Italy).

In Italy you can buy piadinas at every supermarket, but here in the United States it is very difficult to find. This is why I decided to make it by scratch.

Piadina recipe

Ingredients:

• 2.2 pounds of flour
• 7 ounces of fat (it is better to use the pork’s fat, but you can also use shortening)
• 10 ounces of ricotta cheese
• 1 teaspoon of honey
• 0.8 ounces of salt
• 1 cup of milk

Directions:

1. Mix the ingredients until you get an elastic dough.
2. Roll the dough the size of a tortilla.
3. Cook for a few minutes on a hot non-stick pan (you do not need to grease the pan).

Suggestions:

You can eat your piadina with brie and prosciutto or… and this is the best… with crescenza and arugula.