Sfincione is the ancestor people point at when they talk about Sicilian pizza — thick, focaccia-like, sold in Palermo streets, often without a blanket of mozzarella. Onions in the sauce, a dust of breadcrumbs, caciocavallo or pecorino.
This is not a Buddy’s Detroit. It is bread that learned tomato.
Ingredients
Pick one dough — homemade or a store-bought ball.
Homemade dough
- 500 g bread flour
- 350 ml water
- 12 g salt
- 5 g instant yeast
- Olive oil
Premade dough
- 450–500 g store-bought pizza dough, pressed in a pan and proofed until thick
Sauce and toppings
- Onions, cooked soft
- Crushed tomatoes
- Caciocavallo or pecorino
- Breadcrumbs
- Oregano
- Anchovy (optional, traditional)
Products & ingredients
What this pie actually wants. Flour, tomatoes, cheese, and tools — Amazon links, so this blog can keep going.
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Nutrition
If you buy the kit on this page
- Serving
- 1/4 pizza
- Calories
- 180
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbohydrates
- 30 g
- Fat
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 470 mg
Pack labels of those brands (or USDA where a brand does not print a panel), times the grams in this recipe. Drain the mozzarella, swap a tin, or skip the oil and they move.
Labels used: Caputo Pizzeria 00, Diamond Crystal kosher salt, Partanna extra-virgin olive oil, Locatelli Pecorino Romano.
How to make and cook it
Bought dough? Skip “Make the dough.” Let the ball sit out 1 hour, then start at “Cook the pie.”
Make the base
- 01Mix 500 g bread flour, 350 ml water, 12 g salt, 5 g yeast, a little oil.
- 02Proof until doubled.
- 03Oil a pan, press in, proof until thick.
Or use premade dough
- 01Let a store-bought ball sit out for 1 hour until it is relaxed.
- 02Flour the bench.
- 03Stretch it to size — from here it is the same as homemade.
Add sauce and toppings
- 01Cook onions soft.
- 02Add tomato.
- 03Sauce the dough.
- 04Caciocavallo or pecorino, breadcrumbs, oregano, oil.
Cook
Oven
- 01Heat to 230°C (450°F).
- 02Bake 20–25 minutes until the crumb is spongy and the top is set.
- 03Squares.
Gas pizza oven
- 01If the pan fits, medium flame, 10–14 minutes, turning.
- 02Breadcrumbs burn on high.
- 03Squares.
Wood-fired oven
- 01Floor about 300–330°C (575–625°F). 12–18 minutes, turning the pan.
- 02Street food.
- 03A little sweet from the onion.
