White Pizza
Makes 2 pizzas
Make dough.
Basic Pizza Dough
→- Olive oil, 20 g
- Salt, 10 g
- Honey, 10 g
- Yeast, 2 g
- Water, 320 g
- Flour (all-purpose), 500 g
In large bowl, whisk together all ingredients except flour. Adjust yeast based on time available and ambient temperature.
Whisk in half the flour. Stir in remaining flour and mix until a shaggy dough forms. Optionally, cover and let rest for a few minutes.
Knead thoroughly until smooth. Scrape down sides of bowl. Portion dough as desired and form each portion into a neat ball. Cover and let rise.
Make poached garlic.
- Garlic, 30 g
- Olive oil, 60 g
- Salt
- Black pepper
Peel garlic, remove green germ in center, and lightly crush.
Combine garlic and olive oil in narrow oven-safe jar. Oil should cover garlic.
Bake in 135ºC (275ºF) oven for one hour.
Allow to cool, then mash garlic and season to taste.
Prep cheese.
- Ricotta, 150 g
- Parmesan, 15 g
- Salt
- Black pepper
- Mozzarella (low-moisture), 200 g Shred.
- Olive oil
Stir together ricotta and parmesan; season to taste.
Top each base with garlic-oil mixture and use low-moisture mozz instead of fresh. Add dollops of ricotta mixture to taste.