recipe italian taleggio pie with fennel salad

Italian Taleggio pie with fennel salad

A main dish with a great combination of cheese, Taleggio, Parmesan cheese and Mascarpone.

Ingredients

250 grams all-purpose flour,

1 package dry yeast,

salt and pepper,

6 tablespoons olive oil,

1 whole fennel bulb,

1 whole orange,

1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar,

100 grams mascarpone cheese,

2 tablespoons majoram,

300 grams Taleggio cheese,

8 slices Parma ham,

50 grams rucola,

25 grams Parmesan cheese, slivers

25 grams pine nuts, roasted

Instructions

Mix the flour with the yeast and salt and add 2 tablespoons olive oil and add some cold water until you have a firm dough. Knead the dough thoroughly until it becomes elastic. Cover the dough with plastic foil and let it rest on a warm place for 45 minutes.

Clean the fennel bulb, quarter it and thinly slice each part. Chop the green leaves. Rind the orange and squeeze the fruit. Make a dressing of 2 tablespoons of orange juice with the balsamic vinegar and 4 tablespoons of olive oil and add 1 tablespoon of orange rind, a dash of salt and pepper to taste. Mix the fennel and fennel green with the dressing and let it rest for 30 minutes.

Heat the oven to 435 degrees F or 225 degrees C. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface until a thin round pie bottom and place the pie on a creased backing sheet. Spoon the mascarpone on the pie bottom. Sprinkle the mascarpone with pepper, majoram and orange rind. Cut the Taleggio cheese in slices and add these to the pie, again sprinkle with pepper.

Bake the pie in 15-20 minutes until golden brown.

Fry the parma ham in olive oil.

Mix the rucola into the fennel salad and place the salad on top of the baked pie. Top this with the Parmesan cheese, pine nuts and parma ham.

Nutrition

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 614 Calories; 37g Fat (53.6% calories from fat); 13g Protein; 59g Carbohydrate; 5g Dietary Fiber; 39mg Cholesterol; 164mg Sodium. Exchanges: 3 1/2 Grain(Starch); 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 Fruit; 7 Fat.

Recipe Serves: 4Total Time: 1:00 hr:minAuthor: Cheeseline.com