White Pizza
The white pizza originated in New York, it’s a nice way to change up the traditional tomato sauce pizza. The cheeses are rich and creamy and taste delicious with extra garlic. Serve with a side salad for a complete meal.
Ingredients
Preheat oven to 500F
Crust:
1 cup water
1 teaspoons sugar
1 package self rising yeast
2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon olive oil
Topping:
1 fresh mozzarella ball cut into 2 inch pieces
1 ½ cups ricotta cheese
1 tsp garlic powder
½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
Directions
Crust:
1. In a bowl, mix the water and yeast, wait a few minutes, and let foam.
2. Add the flour and mix in the sugar. Start working the dough. Add the olive oil to mixture. Keep kneading the dough. If dough is too dry add more water 1 teaspoon at a time if too wet rub with more flour.
3. Form ball with dough, put in bowl, cover, and let rise for several hours.
4. Spread out flour on flat surface again and place risen dough in center. Rub flour on rolling pin and begin rolling out the dough.
5. Nonna used a lasagna pan, so our dough was rectangular in shape, but you can use a round pizza pan too.
6. Lightly cover the bottom of the pan with olive oil and add pizza dough. Stretch dough to fit in pan.
7. Lightly brush pizza dough with olive oil. Place in preheated oven for 5 minutes.
8. Remove from oven and place the mozzarella cheese all over. Use a tablespoon and scoop the ricotta cheese onto the crust. Sprinkle the Parmesan cheese and garlic powder.
9. Return to oven, let cook for approximately 10-15 minutes. It should be slightly golden.
For sensational flavor, drizzle Truffle Infused Olive Oil (see our shop section) over the pizza pie.
