Casatiello (Neapolitan Stuffed Easter Bread)

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    3hrs 8mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    10
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    240
based on 14 ratings

A traditional Italian Easter bread, stuffed with salami and cheese and baked with whole eggs within the dough. Serve warm or cold.

recipe updated 13 Mar 2025

Ingredients

  • Salami icon
    Salami
    100 g
  • Pecorino cheese icon
    Pecorino cheese
    100 g
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    1
  • Water icon
    Water
    195 ml
  • Dried yeast icon
    Dried yeast
    5 g
  • Bread flour icon
    Bread flour
    350 g
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    ½ teaspoon
  • Caster sugar icon
    Caster sugar
    1 teaspoon
  • Lard icon
    Lard
    7 g
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    3

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Pastry brush
  • kCook icon Rolling pin
  • kCook icon kCook Multi
  • kCook icon Lightly floured surface
  • kCook icon Kcook bowl
  • kCook icon Tube pan - 9 x 3"

Step preview

  1. Fit midi blade to kCook bowl
  2. Add water and dried yeast to the kCook bowl
  3. Fit kCook bowl to kCook Multi
  4. Attach lid to kCook bowl with filler cap fitted
  5. Heat with filler cap fitted - 2 min, 30°C, speed 5
  6. Then add bread flour, salt, caster sugar and lard to the dough
  7. Mix with filler cap fitted - 15 sec, speed 7
  8. Mix with filler cap fitted - 30 sec, speed 10
  9. Remove midi blade from kCook bowl
  10. Heat with filler cap fitted - 1 hr, 30°C
  11. Transfer dough to lightly floured surface
  12. Reserve then set aside
  13. Roll out until 1/8" (5mm) thick
  14. Scatter salami and pecorino cheese over the dough
  15. Roll into a log
  16. Grease a clean tube pan
  17. Transfer dough to tube pan
  18. Cover with kitchen towel
  19. Prove - 1 hr
  20. Pre-heat oven - 180°C
  21. Place egg on the tube pan
  22. Decorate
  23. Brush with egg
  24. Bake - 50 min, 180°C
  25. Let cool
  26. Serve
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