How to Prepare Yummy Piadine

Piadine. Piadina is an Italian flatbread from Emilia-Romagna region. The traditional recipe calls for lard in the dough which you can replace with a good extra-virgin olive oil. It is typically served stuffed with prosciutto and a local cheese called squacquerone but any soft cheese will work.

The dough was traditionally cooked on a terracotta dish (called teggia in Romagnol), although nowadays flat pans or electric griddles are commonly used. I have made three different batches of these (actually halving the recipe each time) each time using butter or lard instead of margarine. The first time indeed was too salty for me especially seeing that they get filled with salumi (deli meats) and cheeses that are already very savoury. You can cook Piadine using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Piadine

1. You need 100 of g lievito madre.
2. You need 40 g of acqua.
3. You need 40 of g latte.
4. It's 2 cucchiai of olio evo.
5. Prepare 5 g of sale.
6. It's 150 g of farina 0.

Piadine are griddle-cooked flatbreads from southern Italy that are sometimes folded and stuffed like calones. But it's equally authentic, more convivial, and certainly easier to put a pile of. A piadina is an Italian flatbread from Romagna, which is filled with seasonal ingredients. That works for the summer of course, when tomatoes are at their best, but for the rest of the year, anything goes.

Piadine step by step

1. Sciogliere il lievito madre nell'acqua e nel latte a temperatura ambiente..
2. Unire l'olio e metà farina. Impastare, poi aggiungere il sale ed il resto della farina. L'impasto deve essere elastico..
3. Formare una palla e lasciar riposare circa una mezz'ora..
4. Suddividere l'impasto in quattro parti e formare delle palline..
5. Mettere sul fuoco a scaldare una padella antiaderente..
6. Stendere con il mattarello ogni pallina cercando di formare una piadina. Cuocere senza olio su entrambi i lati. Si formeranno delle bolle che si possono rompere con uno stuzzicadenti..
7. Farcire le piadine a piacere. Io ho messo prosciutto cotto, stracchino ed insalata..

I've used a combination of ingredients I had to hand already, so there's. Transfer one piadina at a time into the hot pan. You may see small bubbles form on the surface of the flatbread. Flip the piadina and cook for another minute. Remove from heat and repeat with remaining piadina.