This recipe is less about the ingredients but more about shaping the dough. It allows filling pizza dough with wet and oily fillings without making a mess on your pizza stone.

While making potato pide I realized that closing off pide ships makes handling them in the pizza oven way more easy as the filling cannot spill that easily. Spilling is an issue especially with oily fillings like pesto. When trying to make pesto filled bread I played around with that method and ended up with this shape. Not sure if there is a word for it but I genuinely love it.

Ingredients

Dough:

• 500g pizza flour
• 260g water
• 125g sour dough
• 12g salt
• 8g fresh yeast

Filling:

• wild garlic pesto
• sliced olives

Instructions

Dough: Resolve the yeast in the water and mix all ingredients together. Let the dough rest for one hour at a warm place. Afterward split the dough into 8 parts. Form little balls and let them sit covered for another 20 minutes. Note that this step is kind of crucial. If you skip it your dough will not hold up during baking and rip open.

Filling: Roll out a dough ball thinly. The dough should be pretty thin. Note that you should aim for a less round and even more longish shape than shown in the pictures. This will give the dough more space to rise during baking.

Add your filling and close the dough on the top of the bread. If your dough is very dry (or you used too much flour during rolling it out) add some water in between the layers before pressing them together. You really want to seal the edge. Afterward press the two ends together.

Baking: Let it bake until golden brown on maximum heat. If you have a pizza stone, use it.

Tips

I tried a few of these with sweet filling (hazelnut cream, almonds and walnuts). This will evolve into its own recipe soonish. There are a few things to note. Personally my hazelnut cream is not sweet enough for such a desert. Adding sugar will resolve this issue. Also I would prefer the dough to be a bit more buttery. So maybe adding a bit of butter (20-30g) to the dough and using milk instead of water would help.