Recipes > Main DishesMarch 06, 2008

Italian Easter Meat Pie

Ingredients

  • 1lb. ham, diced
  • 1lb. salami, diced
  • 1lb. pepperoni, diced
  • 1lb basket cheese, diced
  • 1 container ricotta cheese
  • 3 dozen eggs beaten

Directions

Mix well. Make pie crust, sprinkle black pepper in the pie crust. Roll out to fit 2 9x13 inch cake pans. Divide the mixture into both cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees F till golden on top, maybe 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

My family makes this at Easter, but not on Good Friday. Can be served warm or cold. Enjoy!

Source: This is our family Easter side dish. Naples and Calabria, Italy.

By Tina from Asgtabula, Ohio

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By (Guest Post) 03/06/2008

What is basket cheese?

Editor's Note: Here is a Wikipedia entry about basket cheese:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_cheese

As for substitutions, I have seen Ricotta listed. As far as I can tell, it is a soft non salty cheese, formed in a basket.

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