Showing posts with label pizza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pizza. Show all posts

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Super Crispy Tortilla Pizza

Pita bread doesn't like me: when I try to make it poof up, it just sits there; when I try to make the tortillas crispy by baking them at 450 for a few minutes before adding pizza-y toppings, the tortillas fill up their lungs to sing. Molto strano.


They got what they were asking for: a violent and crunchy punching down. Then they got a liberal covering with tomato slices, basil leaves, cheese, lots and lots of dried basil and dried oregano on top, and a spoon-controlled drizzling of olive oil.


Back in at 450 for 10-15 minutes, and devoured. Delicious!


P.S. I also roasted the tomatoes before hand, which I think helped. The cookie sheet wasn't too happy though...

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Triple-Type Pizza


It looked better than it tasted. It was a lesson in why not to put raw tomatoes directly on the crust: sog city (the drizzled olive oil didn't help either). The olive oil I used to grease the pan, since I didn't have cornmeal, did however make the crust nicely crispy. It was still too thick, despite the absence of leavening.


The crust was simply 1.5 c whole wheat flour, maybe 1/2 (unmeasured) salt, a generous (maybe 1 tbsp) honey, and about 0.75 c water. I kneaded it just to mix it more easily and to work in a bit more flour.


Then I slathered the cookie sheet with olive oil, spread the crust, and slathered it with oil. Then on went a layer of tomatoes (part of the problem with this pizza was also that the tomatoes hardly tasted like anything; thank goodness my flight for Italy leaves tomorrow!), three columns of toppings: basil, broccoli, and diced yellow pepper (see top picture), and about seven cloves of garlic, minced (I really prefer garlic powder but I refuse to use the garlic salt thingy in the cabinet). Then knife-shredded Cheddar and Romano cheeses, a hearty dose of freshly ground black pepper, oregano, and dried basil, and finally another (bad idea) drizzle of olive oil. I baked it at maybe 450 for about 15 minutes.

At least it was pretty.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Legitissimo Tortilla Pizza

Legitissimo Tortilla Pizza- Preheat oven. Slather tortillas with olive oil. Add chopped tomato, cheese, and ripped fresh basil leaves. Add plenty of oregano and a generous drizzle of olive oil. Bake for 10 minutes at 450. The tortillas were too thick to get properly crispy. More oil next time?