Black Carasau bread - Gicappa - Sardinian food products

Crasau bread is the typical bread of Barbagia, one of the symbols of the Sardinian cuisine.

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History:

Its unique thin sheets, tone and crisp, are part of the culinary landscape of Sardinia for centuries. Its processing is very demanding. From a mixture of wheat flour, leavened worked long, are obtained small globes, which are wrapped in towels and let it rise again. Since these are obtained with a rolling pin thin sheets of roundabouts, which are made even rise fleece pressed well.

Once placed in the oven, the sheets will swell like balloons; then they are removed and cutted along the circumference, to obtain two discs, which are then cooked again, to assume the characteristic crispness.

Black Carasau bread of Gicappa, besides the usual ingredients: Durum wheat flour, water, salt and yeast; He sees the placing of vegetal carbon dust in the dough.

Black Carasau bread - Gicappa - Sardinian products

Serve with:

In conjunction with the black carasau, we recommend an artichokes cream of Famiglia Orro or their olives crushed and pitted. The wine that commonly accompanies the carasau is the Cannonau di Sardegna or a good Vermentino di Gallura