Prosciutto e Melone in Piadina
An Italian summer antipasto, cured ham and ripe cantaloupe, folded into a warm Romagnol piadina and sold from a seafront chiosco in the two months the melon is ripe.
An Italian summer antipasto, cured ham and ripe cantaloupe, folded into a warm Romagnol piadina and sold from a seafront chiosco in the two months the melon is ripe.
La Piadineria grew a 1994 Brescia counter into roughly five hundred outlets fed by one Montirone dough plant. The gourmet build loads DOP cheese and shaved truffle onto a shipped chain round.
Before anything is folded inside, the piadina is just the flatbread, and every other piadina is measured against it. Three decisions hold it: which fat, how thin, how hot the testo.
The spit-roasted kebab filling carried in a Romagna piadina instead of Turkish flatbread. A 1990s immigrant-counter graft of a nineteenth-century spit onto a medieval griddle round.
A piadina mista is the loaded fold: cured meat, soft squacquerone, and rocket run together in one warm Romagnol round, each part covering the gap the next one leaves.
Courgette, aubergine, and peppers grilled dry and folded into a Romagna piadina. The grill does to the filling what the testo does to the bread: it chars and concentrates, never steams.
Two ingredients, no condiment, the heat doing all the work: a warm Romagnola piadina folded around cold stracchino, which slackens into the crumb the moment they meet.
A heaped spoon of pourable squacquerone PDO and a peppery handful of wild rocket folded into a warm Romagnola piadina: the year-round meatless bestseller of the kiosk case.
Piadina with grilled fresh sausage, often crumbled.
Grilled sausage with caramelized onions in piadina.
Squacquerone goes on so loose it nearly runs off the knife; the prosciutto crudo is salt-cured to the opposite extreme. Romagna's definitive piadina folds two opposites warm to cool each other.
Piadina with prosciutto crudo (often Parma ham); classic simple filling.
Piadina con porchetta is a borrow: central Italy's slow-roasted festival pig, sliced with a shard of crackling, folded into Romagna's thin coastal flatbread. A roast and a round from two regions.
Sweet piadina with Nutella; popular dessert version.
Piadina with mortadella Bologna; the great Bolognese sausage.
Piadina with jam; sweet breakfast or snack.
An unleavened Romagnol piadina folded warm around foraged hedge greens, sautéed long in oil with garlic and chilli, with a smear of fresh squacquerone as bind.
A freckled Romagnol round folded hot around cold crescenza, or far more often its wetter local cousin squacquerone, the cheese the kiosks pour and still call by the drier name at the wooden ledge.