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Thin crusted pizza


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Prep Time 3 hours 45 minutes
Cook Time 11 minutes
Total Time 3 hours 56 minutes
Course Appetizer, Lunch, Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

Ingredients for the dough

  • 10 oz (300 g) white unbleached bread flour (protein content 13 %)
  • 1 cup (260 g) water 25 C
  • 1 tbsp + 1 tsp (20 ml) olive oil
  • 0.035 oz (1g) salt
  • 0.035 oz (1g) dried baker's yeast

Ingredients for the pizza

  • 1-2 medium brown onions
  • 1 red pepper
  • 1 green pepper
  • 20 olives
  • 7 oz (200 g) sliced zucchini
  • 5.3 oz (150 g) mushrooms
  • 3.5 oz (100 g) shredded Beemster
  • 3.5 oz (100 g) shredded Parmesan
  • fresh basil leaves
  • dried oregano leaves

Instructions
 

Instructions to make the dough

  • For the pre-ferment use 4.2 oz (120 g) flour and ½ cup (120 g) water and 0.1 g of dried yeast. Mix with a fork. The dough is very wet. Place at room temperature for a day or place in a 30C environment when you want to use it faster
  • When the pre-ferment is bubbly, it can be mixed with more flour, a little salt and some olive oil. Knead and let it rest for an hour
  • Then, de-aerate, knead it further and if necessary apply a little more flour
  • After a further 1-2 h resting, use a dough pin to roll the dough on a counter sprinkled with some flour. You may see the dough springs back at times. At that time let the stretched dough rest a while and roll further. Roll as thin as possible, but such that the dough will not cause holes when transferring to a baking sheet
  • Lightly oil an oven baking sheet and dust with flour
  • Very lightly dust the surface of the rolled-out pizza dough with flour, so it can be folded, transferred and folded back without sticking. Place the thin dough sheet on the oven baking sheet

Instructions to make the pizza

  • Peel and cut the onions course, cut the peppers, slice the zucchini and mushrooms. Shred the cheese and have the olives handy
  • Fry the onions and the peppers only for 1-2 minutes in a wok or pan with some olive oil. Let drain. This step is not needed if your oven can handle 270 C or up
  • Use a brush to coat the non-cooked rolled out pizza dough on the baking sheet with tomato paste or ketchup
  • Cover the uncooked pizza dough with the onions, peppers, zucchini, olives, mushrooms and the anchovies and use salt and pepper to taste (anchovies and cheese are salty, so I ignore the salt)
  • Sprinkle the olive oil oil from the can with anchovies over the pizza or use virgin olive oil instead
    Sprinkle the oregano leaves and then the cheese over the pizza, taking care not to forget the area towards the rim
  • Place the pizza in the pre-heated oven. Bake for 10-11 minutes at 270 C, the rims of the pizza then start to get charred, the contents seems to be bubbling and the cheese is starting to get caramelized
  • Remove from the oven and release on a wooden board. The pizza bottom should be dry and crusty
  • Sprinkle the fresh basil leaves over the hot pizza, cut the pizza and serve.

Notes

Method: ovenbaking
Food allergy & intolerance information: gluten, fish
Keyword Appetizer, crunchy