Chased-chased

Preparation:

Preparation: That is: focaccia from Catania. These ingredients are for the simplest Christmas (but they last until San Giuseppe and beyond) chased away from Catania. Two discs are obtained from the dough to be superimposed, with the stuffing inside, well moistened with bits of lard, placed on the tuma slices salted with boned anchovy fillets, freshly ground black pepper in a generous drizzle. It is cooked in the oven in the round pan: the crust will take on a nice brown colour. In Catania and its province there are many variations, we will mention a few: a) add the chopped onion and the chopped tomatoes to the aforementioned ingredients; b) the filling is made up of vegetables: smoked brocculi, smuzzatura, broccoli florets or cabbage boiled and sautéed in a pan with frittole; c) no anchovies, but less tuma and mainly crumbled fresh pork sausage and finely chopped chives; d) fried and minced pork with pitted black olives; e) with only fresh ricotta mixed with ground coffee, sugar and cinnamon: but the latter is already a dessert, in fact, when cooked, the scacciata is sprinkled with granulated sugar. In the province of Ragusa it is called scaccia. The flatbread-shaped flatbreads, stuffed with various ingredients and then fried golden brown in lard, are called ravazzate.