FEATURE RECIPE
Sausage and stracchino piadini

Sausage and stracchino piadini

There’s no standing on ceremony when serving these – insist on eating them hot, straight from the pan.

Serves 6

Cooking Time Prep time 20 mins, cook 35 mins



1   Spanish onion, coarsely chopped
2   garlic cloves, finely chopped
300 gm   canned chopped tomatoes
50 ml   extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra to serve
3   pork and fennel sausages (about 120gm each), skins removed
200 gm   stracchino or Taleggio, coarsely chopped
2 tbsp   thyme leaves, plus extra to serve
Piadina dough
525 gm   (3½ cups) plain flour
½ tsp   bicarbonate of soda
115 gm   cold lard, coarsely grated
1 tbsp   olive oil


1 Process onion and half the garlic in a food processor, add tomato, season to taste and process until smooth. Set aside. Heat oil in a frying pan, add sausage and cook over medium-high heat until browned, breaking into pieces with a wooden spoon (2-3 minutes). Add tomato mixture and simmer until sausage is just cooked through and sauce is slightly reduced (2-3 minutes). Set aside.
2 For piadina dough, combine flour, bicarbonate of soda and 1 tsp salt in the bowl of an electric mixer. Add lard and, using your fingertips, rub in to combine. Add oil and 200-250ml water, fit mixer with a dough hook and mix on lowest speed until combined (2-3 minutes). Dough should come together easily, if too dry, add extra water. Increase speed to high and knead until smooth and elastic (4-5 minutes). Divide dough into 6 even pieces, form into balls and roll each on a lightly floured work surface to 3mm thick. Cover with a tea towel to prevent drying out.
3 Preheat a lightly oiled frying pan over high heat. Add a dough disc and cook until light golden in parts (1-2 minutes), turn and spread with a little sausage mixture, scatter with a quarter of the stracchino and a little thyme. Cook until underside is light golden in parts and cheese starts to melt (1-2 minutes). Season to taste, fold in half, turn and cook for another minute and transfer to a plate. Drizzle with a little extra olive oil, scatter with extra thyme and serve immediately. Repeat with remaining ingredients.


RECIPE Emma Knowles PHOTOGRAPHY Chris Chen STYLING Emma Knowles and Elodie Rambaud


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