How good can Pane Carasau be?

Pane Carasau is proposed as an everyday bread, light and flavorful, to be used as an everyday replacement for sliced white bread or more traditional bread forms. An everyday bread which stays fresh and retains its taste, as if just out of the oven for up to 3 months. In Sardinia, it is also the most important, compliment and addition to traditional recipes, which have been handed down from generation to generation. Sardo Pan likes to present two Sardinian recipes, to give the interested an opportunity to experience the taste and quality that is Pane Carasau.

Pane Frattau is Sardinia’s answer to the Neapolitan pizza, a favorite of adults as well as children. A very special treat that is simple to prepare and can be left to any imagination to improve or compliment to any taste. Pizza may have found its match, if this recipe finds its way to fast food entrepreneurs.

The poor man’s specialty. Recent visitors to Sardinia have brought back to the forefront what was once considered the poor man’s dinner, a Pane Carasau, that with a little effort received a new taste and different quality a perfect compliment to Sardinia’s pecorino cheese or home made salamis and hams.

Tomato Sauce (tomatoes, 100 grams lean ground beef, 40 grams chopped onion, small garlic clove, parsley, 2 table spoons of Sardinian extra virgin olive oil): in a sauce pan sauté above ingredients adding  the crushed after a few minutes and cooking for 10 minutes stirring occasionally.
Place a pot filled with lightly salted water on burner (do not put to boil), cut the Sardo Pan Carasau bread sheets in half and place in hot water for only a second and place then on a pre-heated plate, quickly spread a thin layer of the tomato sauce and a sprinkle of Sardinian Pecorino cheese on top. Repeat the same procedure with the two other layers.
Poach 2 eggs in the same pot of water for about 3 minutes, remove them from the water and drain, add to the last layer of Sardo Pan Carasau bread. Serve warm.

Very lightly place drops of the Olive Oil on each of the Sardo Pan Carasau bread sheets, adding a sprinkle of salt to taste, Pre-heat oven (or over fireplace ambers with a minimum of 10cm. distance). Place Carasau bread sheets on the oven grills untill golden brown (depending on oven temperature it may take from 20 seconds to a few minutes).

Pane Frattau	Pane Guttiau