This recipe has been revised to include the two missing pie crusts. The recipe calls for 4 pie crusts total.
Excellent. Word of advice...do NOT add onions and garlic. Also mozzarella cheese is not authentic in this recipe. Do not use bacon instead of prosciutto
This is it! This is the recipe my Nonna used to make. I can't wait to make it for my family. The only difference is that Nonna's pie was made in a square pyrex glass baking dish and she made a lattice top using a zig-zag style ravioli cutter to make the strips. Thanks so much for bringing back a little bit of family history to our table.
I loved this recipe. I halved the recipe and used a springform pan and it looked beautiful and tasted wonderful. I also left off the top crust as someone else suggested and it turned out great. It will be on my list for favorite Easter recips. Thanks for sharing!
Maybe this last year for Easter I will be making it again this year. It was wonderful! My Italian husband and both of our families loved it. My mother in law said it was the best she'd ever had inculding hers! I almost fell off my chair. Highly recommened.
This was my first attempt at making an Easter meat pie. I have had several others that friends have made. THis was a little lighter than theirs and I liked it better. The only change I made was I left off the top crust and baked till the chese was a golden color. Absolutely perfect!! Thanks
I have been researching Italian Easter Meat Pie since I saw it being made by the Cake Boss and his family! It looked soooo goood! I have read many recipes and learned how many different versions there are. I used this one as a basis. I halfed the recipe for 2 with lots of leftovers! I used a bottom crust only and that was a pizza dough placed in my Pampered Chef stone deep dish pie pan, prebaked for 5 minutes. I used 15 oz of riccotta, 3 eggs, 1/2 lb. cappacola, 1/4 lb. hard salami, a big handful of pepperoni, chopped, 4 hard cooked eggs, chopped, 1 cup mozzarela cheese, 1/4 lb. provalone and a good shake or 2 of parmesan cheese, garlic powder and Italian seasoning. This was so good and it will become an Easter weekend tradition for us, even though i am Irish!! I served this with a Cesar Salad.
Not bad! I halved the recipe with no problems. From the start it seemed to need a little spice. So I sauteed an onion 2 garlic cloves and one jalapeno. I used one pound ground turkey instead of all that pork to which I added the onion garlic pepper mix. To the cheese mixture I added italian seasoning cumin and paprika. I mixed the meat mixture with the cheese as per the recipe. But I made it crustless so I just put it all into one 9 x 13 lasagne pan sprinkled the parmesan and then baked it as instructed. It came out as a very pretty meat pie. Thanks!
My husband is Italian. His aunt used to make this except that she used pizza dough instead of a pie shell. I used the pizza dough with this recipe and my husband said it was as good as his Aunts! Everyone loved it!
