So we don’t have cable. We have a nice, big HD tv, but no cable… and no Food Network. Luckily the PBS station near us has a great channel Create, filled with lots of good cooking shows. Even better, they have Made in Spain re-runs every night at 6:30!
While Create may not have any cooking-reality-gameshows on (schucks!), you can catch some good recipes. We caught this one on America’s Test Kitchen. It is a big rectangular pizza, that is sort of like foccicia with a healthy serving of olive oil. It is pretty quick to make and tastey!
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Pizza Bianca With Tomatoes And Mozzarella
From: America’s Test Kitchen
Ingredients:
- Toppings
- 1 (28-ounce) can crushed tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/8 teaspoon table salt
- 1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese (6 ounces)
- Dough
- 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (15 ounces)
- 1 2/3 cups water (13 1/2 ounces), room temperature
- 1 1/4 teaspoons table salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast
- 1 1/4 teaspoons sugar
- 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Directions:
- Place 28-ounce can of crushed tomatoes in fine-mesh strainer set over medium bowl. Let sit 30 minutes, stirring 3 times to allow juices to drain. Combine 3/4 cup tomato solids, 1 tablespoon olive oil, and 1/8 teaspoon table salt. (Save remaining solids and juice for another use.)
- Place towel or shelf liner beneath stand mixer to prevent wobbling. Mix flour, water, and table salt in bowl of stand mixer fitted with dough hook on low speed until no patches of dry flour remain, 3 to 4 minutes, occasionally scraping sides and bottom of bowl. Turn off mixer and let dough rest 20 minutes.
- Sprinkle yeast and sugar over dough. Knead on low speed until fully combined, 1 to 2 minutes, occasionally scraping sides and bottom of bowl. Increase mixer speed to high and knead until dough is glossy, smooth, and pulls away from sides of bowl, 6 to 10 minutes. (Dough will only pull away from sides while mixer is on. When mixer is off, dough will fall back to sides.)
- Using fingers, coat large bowl with 1 tablespoon oil, rubbing excess oil from fingers onto blade of rubber spatula. Using oiled spatula, transfer dough to bowl and pour 1 tablespoon oil over top. Flip dough over once so it is well coated with oil; cover tightly with plastic wrap. Let dough rise at room temperature until nearly tripled in volume and large bubbles have formed, 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
- One hour before baking pizza, adjust oven rack to middle position, place pizza stone on rack, and heat oven to 450 degrees.
- Coat rimmed baking sheet with 2 tablespoons oil. Using rubber spatula, turn dough out onto baking sheet along with any oil in bowl. Using fingertips, press dough out toward edges of pan, taking care not to tear it. (Dough will not fit snugly into corners. If dough resists stretching, let it relax for 5 to 10 minutes before trying to stretch again.) Let dough rest in pan until slightly bubbly, 5 to 10 minutes. Using dinner fork, poke surface of dough 30 to 40 times and sprinkle with kosher salt.
- Bake until spotty brown, 15 to 17 minutes, rotating baking sheet halfway through baking. Using metal spatula, remove pizza from oven, spread tomato mixture evenly over surface, and sprinkle with shredded mozzarella. Return pizza to oven and continue to bake until cheese begins to brown in spots, 5 to 10 minutes longer.
Just remembered I asked a question then forgot to come back for your response! Still haven’t made it, but will definitely get to it before the week is out. Thanks for the info! And recipe!
I could swear my KA came with instructions not to use the dough hook at a setting higher than 2 (or 3?). When you say to turn the mixer on “high” are you truly running it at 10 with the dough hook? This looks great! I think it needs to be tomorrow’s lunch!
Good point! Mine said the same thing. This dough is really liquidy and is a lot softer than a regular pizza or bread dough. I think I only turned it up to 5 or 6. If your mixer starts to get warm, just turn it back to 2.