Pastiera, a sensational wheat tart
Preparation: 3hs (if you use uncooked wheat than you need to soak it in cold water for 8hs before starting with the recipe) Quantity: 3 Tarts Difficulty: difficult but rewarding There is no Easter Sunday without Pastiera in my family and be aware not only one but several! Yes, you might think we are crazy but every family prepares many tarts in one afternoon and exchanges them as a gift for Easter. And every year invariably a pastiera contest takes place. Someone has to do the hard job to taste them all, I gladly volunteer. Pastiera nowadays symbolises Resurrection, but literally it means Pasta di Ieri, Pasta of yesterday. In ancient times they use to make it adding to the pasta some ricotta,...