Savory cakes, pies and tarts
Serving salt cakes
There's a great variety of Italian salt cakes, pies and tarts , for all occasions.
You can serve them cold or warm, as starter or one-plate meal accompanied with a green salad.
The most important ingredients are fish, meat, vegetables and eggs and they can be made with shortbread or puff-pastry or pizza dough. But a shell is not always necessary. Browse our pages
to find Italian traditional recipes or our original home cooking ideas :))
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Traditional salt cakes, pies and tarts, Italy-style
Assorted vegetables pie
The most classic and traditional of vegetarian savory pies. With no secrets anymore. It is perfect for many occasions because it accompanies many other dishes without overpowering their taste.
Batavian endive pie (traditional)
A traditional recipe from Campania region. Endive is very versatile because it can be combined with many ingredients so it is perfect for many fillings! Generally Neapolitans serve it during the Christmas holidays but it is always good.
Easter pie, Genoa-style
Typical recipe for Easter in the Genoa area. Its ingredients are those that are usually brought to the table in spring and for Easter. First of all, eggs.
Easter cheese cake, Umbria-style
In Umbria and central Italy, the cheese cake is served at Easter. It opens the menu because it is served with hard-boiled eggs and slices of homemade salami cut by hand. So the slices are not thin as is the tradition in northern Italy. Not bad, right?
Farinata (savory cake with chickpea flour)
Chickpea farinata is an excellent example of poor cooking. Its only ingredients are chickpea flour, salt, water and olive oil. It must be very thin. It is eaten hot accompanied by soft cheese, salami, fish and more.
Pizza, Catania-style
To be made with bread or pizza dough. In practice it is a covered pizza. It hides a heart of veal and tuma cheese. A real goodness.
Pizza filled with potatoes and tomatoes
Traditional recipe from Sicily. Double pizza stuffed with tomatoes and potatoes. Excellent vegetarian dish for the summer.
Potato mould or Neapolitan gatto
You know the potato gattò? I have revisited the recipe and changed the shape to be able to serve it on many different occasions.
Vegetable mould, Marches-style
It is a recipe from the Marche region to be made in summer at the height of the ripening of fleshy sweet peppers, yellow and red. The peppers must be combined with potatoes and tomatoes. The vegetables are placed in layers in a pan. Bake and... and it's delicious. Proof that the simplest things are also the best. Our great Mediterranean diet is all here!
Savory cakes, pies and tarts: our original home cooking
A bread bowl with salami
When we proposed serving mixed cold cuts in a bread bowl, many years ago, we were highly appreciated by our readers. Today we also see salads served in bread bowls in many fast food chains. But if you prepare the bread bowl yourself... the taste gains. It is always a beautiful and colorful centerpiece to eat.
Pea-asparagus-artichoke-savory-tart
Typically spring savory pie with seasonal vegetables. Excellent for buffets or to celebrate an eighteenth birthday given the green color ;))
Artichoke-and-shrimp quiche
Try this recipe when fresh artichokes are in the middle of the season and therefore in winter and early spring. Very simple but very good. And it uses a new technique in cooking artichokes.
Asparagus-and-potato savory tart
Did you notice the light color? The filling is made of potatoes, white asparagus and ricotta. It is a refined dish and suitable if you want to prepare a light menu for a christening or a ceremony. I created it expressly for a birth.
Autumnal savory pie
Potatoes, cabbage, mushrooms and mozzarella cheese... A decidedly rustic filling. It is particularly good and with well assorted ingredients. To prepare something different for dinner or open an autumn menu. My recipe.
Batavian endive pie
A whole wheat pizza dough shell houses endive mixed with olives, pine nuts, raisins, capers and anchovies. Easy and delicate recipe.
Cardoon pie - Our recipe
We produce cardoons in our organic garden and they certainly do not grow as big as the ones you find at the market but they are very tasty. A couple of times during the winter we prepare this recipe that our friends expressly ask us for. The recipe resembles eggplant parmesan but I do not fry the cardoons, I bake them and so the recipe becomes much lighter.
Chestnuts and savoy cabbage savory pie
A vegetarian recipe very suitable for autumn. The sweetness of chestnuts is contrasted by the slightly bitter taste of savoy cabbage. A very interesting combination.
Courgette, tuna and ricotta pie
The name already tells you what the ingredients are. The shell is made of puff pastry. Can be done quickly and easily. I often combine it with other dishes in buffets.
Fennel-and-tuna savory pie
I discovered by chance how good the combination of these two ingredients is. Hence the idea was born. I used pizza dough for the shell but it can also be made with shortcrust pastry.
Green tomato quiche
If you also have a small garden, do not miss this recipe of mine. Besides the fact that green tomatoes can now also be found at greengrocers ;))) ... In any case, at our house nothing is ever thrown away, not even the last harvest of tomatoes that were not able to ripen on the plant and that are not allowed to ripen off the plant otherwise they taste like nothing.
Pea, potato and carrot tart
A very good savory shortcrust pastry houses a series of well-seasoned vegetables plus hard-boiled egg slices. Excellent! A recipe of mine.
Pie with courgette flowers
A delicate and delicious dish. Great for a summer dinner and a meal in the garden.
Rabbit pie flawored with truffle chocolate
Incredible dish combining rabbit meat with white truffle chocolate. A recipe of mine that always makes a great impression on my guests. Make it and you will knock out your envious friends!
Ricotta & artichoke pie
Typical combination of Roman cuisine and central Italy. Transferring them into a pastry shell along with other ingredients, the right ones, was an idea one evening when my husband and I didn't know how to serve a platter of typical Umbrian cold cuts.
Savory cake with mushrooms in oil and bacon
This is not a savory pie with a pastry shell, but a real pie. Soft just enough to be able to serve it without problems in a buffet for any occasion and in any season.
Savory ring cake (salt ciambella) with walnuts
The classic ring cake but savory with soft wheat and spelled flour dough and lots of walnuts. Excellent to accompany any type of appetizer and meat or fish main course.
Savory pie with courgettes (zucchini)
Do you have a little salami paste left over or do you want to flavor zucchini to make a savory pie? Here is my solution. It is also good cold.
Savory tart with assorted cabbage, tofu and potatoes
The last harvest of cabbage from our organic garden suggested this vegetarian filling to me. Very good if you are looking for a meat-free alternative dinner idea.
Savory tart with kale
For those looking for refined vegetarian appetizers, I propose this savory pie which is typical for winter and autumn. Just think how good Tuscan kale is paired with chestnuts. I will add nothing else. The recipe is mine and I am proud of it.
Savory tart with salt cod
Do you like salt cod? then you will also like this savory pie with a casing made of pizza dough. The filling is very tasty because I cooked the salt cod in tomato and orange juice. The combination of orange juice and tomato is typical of Sicilian cuisine and my husband and I find it very, very good.
Savory tart with salt cod, chickpeas, kale
More salt cod in the filling but this time combined with black or Tuscan cabbage and chickpeas. Tasty, very tasty, enough to let your friends try it in a rustic menu.
Savory tart with sweet peppers and eggs
My Abruzzo grandmother always made sweet peppers, red and yellow, mixing them with scrambled eggs. Happy memories of youth. Dusted off for this excellent filling. A real delicacy. According to all those, many, who have tasted it.
Savory pie with turnip tops
My husband and I love turnip tops very much. We often sauté them in a pan with anchovies and capers. The idea for this filling was born from this habit of ours, very tasty and typically linked to autumn and winter.
Seafood savory tart
This savory pie, very colorful and good, was born in my kitchen during the Christmas holidays a few years ago. We had friends over for dinner who always want to taste new things. Shortcrust pastry this time housing a parade of crustaceans and mollusks: scampi, scallops, squid rings and tufts of calamari. Ideal for those who love seafood.
Spinach and bacon fat pie
Frozen spinach, therefore any season is good, is revived and then flavored with olives, bacon, dried tomatoes. Finally beaten eggs are added. The mixture is poured onto the shortcrust pastry and then baked. Easier than that... Excellent idea for dinner but also a solution for a buffet. The cake is soft and generally very much appreciated.
Vegetable pie for kids
Vegetables pureed and assembled with ricotta cheese to make up the filling of a puff pastry pie... excellent! Great way to make children also eat vegetables.
Savoury cakes, pies and tarts for Halloween, Carnival ...
Hide and seek in the cemetery
Some little ghosts are playing in the cemetery ...
The witch's house
Bertha The Witch lives in a mushroom but what is going to happen?
