What is the name of an Italian round flat bread with a hole in the middle?

[Heidi60]

I think this is it:

Italian Bread Ring Recipe » Yankee Magazine

Gentlearts, you can find the Naan bread pizzas in the frozen food section of Indian grocery stores. Here in the Bay Area Indian restaurants have them on the menu as they are so much better fresh with Indian spices and chopped veggies, but chicken also works for me:

http://picturetherecipe.com/index.ph...n-tikka-pizza/

[burdell]

Originally Posted by Heidi60

I think this is it:

Italian Bread Ring Recipe » Yankee Magazine

Gentlearts, you can find the Naan bread pizzas in the frozen food section of Indian grocery stores. Here in the Bay Area Indian restaurants have them on the menu as they are so much better fresh with Indian spices and chopped veggies, but chicken also works for me:

Indian Naan Chicken Tikka Pizza | Picture the Recipe

I wish there was a picture. Pizza bread isn't so much a ring but more like a fluffier version of a pita, maybe 9"-10" in diameter with a 3/4"-1" hole in the center.

Anyone know what the key is to a flat bread developing a pocket during baking?

There's a bakery in my area run by former New Yorkers, I'm trying to line up enough people to go in and ask for pizza bread that they might start making it.

[Heidi60]

Here are some with photos:


Journey of an Italian Cook: Taralli (Fennel Bread Rings)

Breads of Italy: Panis Farreus, 100% Einkorn Ring

[burdell]

Originally Posted by Heidi60

Here are some with photos:


Journey of an Italian Cook: Taralli (Fennel Bread Rings)

Breads of Italy: Panis Farreus, 100% Einkorn Ring

They look interesting, I love trying different kinds of breads, but pizza bread is much flatter and has a pocket. I think it's a North Newark NJ thing but pizza bread is used to make a double Italian hot dog. You take half a loaf, open the pocket, and fill with 2 fried hot dogs, peppers & onions, fried potatoes, and dressed with yellow mustard and ketchup. It can probably also be called your cardiologist's next Ferrari payment.

I tried searching for pix but the only returns I get are recipes for making pizza from bread.

[ptjims]

Originally Posted by taurus430

Thanks all, the guys in the NJ Forum found it. FYI, it looks like this and called "pizza bread".......

[URL="http://www.calandrabakery.com/subs.html"]Fresh From Calandra's[/URL]

I forgot what it was called until I came here. I never forgot about this bread we used to get on the way home from the swimming pool nor did I forgot the wonderful aroma as it was being baked. I Wondered if this was a local item and if I was the only person that remembered this. Is this still being baked or has it fallen from fashion.

[steiconi]

Originally Posted by burdell

Anyone know what the key is to a flat bread developing a pocket during baking?

You sear one side on a hot pan in the oven, then flip and sear the other side.
That makes the outsides impermeable, trapping the steam inside to form the pocket.