Fresh homemade pizza is ever a treat, particularly amongst a soft chewy homemade pizza crust! Smothered inwards a robust homemade dark olive tapenade, plenty of delicious proficient character soft cheeses, some sautéed portobello mushrooms, together with some jalapeños together with fresh basil from my garden, this is a colorful together with extravagant pizza loaded amongst wonderful flavors together with textures. I served it to my married adult man together with proficient friend Basil exterior on the deck on a beautiful summertime even out — proficient food, proficient people together with proficient conditions are all the ingredients you lot demand for a perfect dinner.
The perfect results were also a tremendous relief after a rather disastrous crumbling pastry I had made for a rhubarb together with strawberry pie only days before (delicious nonetheless). And dessert redemption presently followed amongst a beautifully executed
pineapple upside-down cake too.
Homemade is the agency to go, together with my diners are bespeak for more. The best parts of making your ain dough are that you lot tin add together dissimilar seasonings together with spices into the blend, together with that you lot tin command the size together with thickness of your pizza. The dough recipe below makes plenty for 2 12-inch pizzas, together with then after making this pizza I accept plenty dough inwards the freezer to brand some other circular soon. Next fourth dimension I intend I volition contain sun-dried tomatoes into the sauce together with focus on Greek cheese or mayhap some other variant of my famous
paneer pizza.
| Homemade Olive Tapenade Pizza |
Recipe past times Lisa Turner
Published on July 29, 2012
Rich delicious pizza smothered amongst homemade dark olive tapenade, delicious soft cheeses, sautéed portobello mushrooms, jalapeños together with fresh basil
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Dough recipe makes 2 12-inch pizza crusts. Instructions for making i 12-inch pizza below. If making 2 pizzas, double the tapenade together with topping ingredients.
Pizza dough:
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 loving cup warm water
- 1/4 oz (8 g) bundle of yeast
- 3 1/4 cups unbleached white flour or spelt flour
- 1/2 teaspoon bounding main salt
- 1 tablespoon of curry powder (optional)
- 1/4 loving cup olive stone oil + to a greater extent than for brushing
- cornmeal
Olive tapenade:
- 1 loving cup dark olives, pitted together with chopped
- 1/2 loving cup fresh basil leaves
- 2 teaspoons capers
- 1 large clove garlic, chopped
- 1/4 loving cup olive oil
- juice from 1 pocket-size lemon
- sea tabular array salt to taste
- fresh cracked dark pepper to taste
Pizza toppings:
- 1 large portobello mushroom, sliced
- 3 cups soft fresh shredded cheese (I used a combination of Gouda, Fontina together with Mozzarella)
- 1 loving cup Lycopersicon esculentum sauce (suggestions here together with here)
- 1 pocket-size cherry-red onion, sliced into sparse rings
- 2 - three jalapeños, seeded together with sliced into rounds
- fresh basil leaves for garnish
Instructions:
Begin past times making the dough. Dissolve the carbohydrate inwards the warm water, making certain the H2O is "bathtub" warm but non hot. Sprinkle inwards the yeast together with stir gently for close a infinitesimal until it dissolves. If the yeast clumps, the H2O is also mutual frigidity together with the procedure should live restarted. Let sit down inwards a warm identify for v minutes or together with then until you lot accept a polish beige-colored mixture together with a layer of bubbles forms on the surface. In a large mixing bowl, combine three cups of the flour amongst the tabular array salt together with curry pulverization (if using). Make a good inwards the optic of the dry out mixture together with pour inwards the yeast-water mixture together with olive oil. Mix the ingredients together, foremost inwards the optic together with incorporating the flour from the sides of the bowl. Continue until a soft dough is formed. Lightly flour a large cutting board or forest surface together with dust your hands amongst flour. Knead the dough past times pushing it away from you, folding it over, together with moving it forward. Rotate the dough together with continue. Add some of the remaining 1/4 loving cup of flour every bit needed until your dough is no longer gluey — close v minutes. Keep kneading for some other 10 to xv minutes until the dough is polish together with elastic. Shape the dough into a ball together with transfer to a well-oiled large bowl. Brush the dough amongst to a greater extent than olive stone oil together with comprehend the bowl tightly amongst plastic wrap. Leave the dough to rising inwards a warm identify for 1 1/2 hours, after which the dough should accept doubled inwards size. While the dough is rising, ready the toppings for the pizza. Combine the tapenade ingredients inwards a nutrient processor or blender together with procedure until a coarse glue is formed. Taste for seasonings, together with laid aside. Meanwhile, rut a tablespoon of olive stone oil inwards a large skillet over medium-high heat. When hot, toss inwards the mushrooms together with sauté for v or six minutes or until the mushrooms laid about to lose their wet together with start to "squeak" inwards the pan. Remove from rut together with laid aside. Prepare a 12-inch vented pizza pan past times lightly brushing it amongst olive stone oil together with sprinkling amongst a lite coat of cornmeal. To complete the dough, punch it amongst your fist together with split into 2 portions. If making i pizza, reserve i of the portions past times wrapping inwards plastic wind together with freezing for later on use. Lightly flour a large cutting board or forest surface, together with flour a rolling pin. Roll the dough out into a roughly 1/4-inch thick circular shape, making certain the edges are slightly thicker than the residual of the dough. Add flour when needed to maintain from sticking, together with pick upwards the dough together with plough several times to stretch. Transfer the dough to the prepared pan together with cast a ridge approximately the edges amongst your hands. Preheat an oven to 500° together with deed the rack to the second-from-top position. Brush the dough amongst olive stone oil together with lightly scatter 1/4 loving cup of the cheese over top. Spread the olive tapenade evenly over the dough. Top amongst Lycopersicon esculentum sauce, followed past times most of the remaining cheese, mushrooms, onion together with jalapeños. Scatter the final of the cheese over transcend together with bake for 10 to xv minutes or until the cheese is starting to bubbling together with the crust is crisp together with lightly browned. Remove from rut together with lightly brush the edges of the crust amongst a piffling to a greater extent than olive oil. Garnish amongst fresh basil leaves, cutting into wedges, together with serve hot or warm.
Makes 4 to 8 servings |
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