Puccia from Salento

Name: Puccia from Salento
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: bread rolls; sundried tomatoes; onions; cheese; lettuce; cured pork meat from the neck

Salento puccia is an amazing sandwich made of pizza dough, whose "invention" is all in all recent. In Puglia, especially in Salento, puccia is often the perfect substitute for a dinner, and is capable of transforming an anonymous evening into a real party, fun, tasty and also cheap! It can be bought already made, it is "revived" in the oven in a few moments, and it is filled according to taste and imagination. The ideal, to enjoy it just as they do in those parts, is to stuff it with local ingredients, such as Apulian cold cuts, Apulian dairy products and delicious local vegetables from those areas.

Ingredients

bread rolls a pack of sandwiches like Puccia Leccese
sundried tomatoes
onions 300 grams dried
cheese a few cubes of first salt cheese
lettuce a few lettuce leaves
cured pork meat from the neck some slices of Capocollo di Martina Franca

Start shopping

Capers from Salento in sea salt 75gr

Paparina (wild vegetable) from Salento

"Survival Kit" box set from Puglia

The package with typical products from Puglia

Termite olives from Bitetto

Bread "Puccia Salentina"

Olives Bella from Cerignola

Gift box with typical products from Puglia

Information

10 minutes Total time

5 minutes Active time

Serves 2 persons

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Preparation

Heat the puccia in the oven at 200 degrees for a few minutes or on a hot covered plate. Cut it horizontally and then stuff it with Martina Franca capocollo, primo sale, dried tomatoes in oil, dried onions, lettuce.

Tips

The idea is one, but the variations are many. Organize a puccia party and stuff different pucce in many different ways. Then cut them in half and let the party begin!

Trivia

It seems that the puccia was accidentally invented in the late seventies by a baker who crushed and cooked some "balls" of leftover dough. A brilliant idea!