White Pizza with Spinach & Garlic
- 1- 1/2 cup All-purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Kosher Salt
- 1 package Instant Yeast (1 1/2 Teaspoon Package)
- 23 cups Warm Water
- 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil Plus Extra For Drizzling On Dough
- 2 teaspoons Honey Or Sugar
- 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
- 3 cloves Garlic, Minced
- 4 ounces, weight Button Mushrooms, Sliced
- 1 cup Frozen Chopped Spinach
- 1/2 cups Grated Pecornio Romano Cheese
- 1- 1/2 cup Shredded Whole-milk Mozzarella
- Salt And Pepper, to taste
- FOR THE DOUGH: In the bowl of a stand mixer, use dough hook to mix flour, salt and yeast together.
- Add water, olive oil, and honey, and mix on medium speed until the dough comes together in a ball and begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl.
- Add more flour/water as necessary the dough will stick to the bottom but not the sides.
- It should not be overly wet or shaggy, but not too dry/floury/stiff either.
- Allow the mixer to run for 5-7 minutes to knead the dough and develop the gluten (alternatively, knead by hand).
- After this is complete, form the dough into a ball by pulling edges under.
- Place into mixer bowl (no need to wash), drizzle with olive oil, and allow to rise in a warm, draft-free place for at least an hour, or until doubled in size.
- Punch down and proceed.
- FOR THE PIZZA: Place a pizza stone on oven rack in the bottom third of the oven and preheat oven to 500 degrees F for a good 20 minutes.
- Sprinkle flour and cornmeal on a pizza peel or a rimless cookie sheet.
- In a small skillet, heat the olive oil and garlic together over low heat for 5 minutes or until the garlic is fragrant and beginning to brown (if the garlic burns or gets overly brown, toss it all and start over).
- Set the completed garlic oil aside in a small bowl, return skillet to heat, and increase heat to medium-high.
- Add mushrooms, season with salt and pepper to taste, and saute 3-4 minutes until they begin giving off their water.
- Add spinach (no need to defrost) and cook another 4-5 minutes or until the veggies have given up most of their liquid.
- Season again.
- Shape the pizza dough into a 14 to 16 round, first patting in out on a floured counter using your fingers, then picking it up, laying it over the knuckles of loose fists, and using the doughs weight to gently (GENTLY!)
- stretch it further.
- Use enough flour to prevent sticking, but not so much to completely coat the dough.
- If you have trouble getting the dough to stretch, let it rest for 5 minutes and try again.
- Place pizza dough onto prepared cookie sheet.
- Pour garlic oil evenly over crust, spreading to within 1/2 of edges.
- Sprinkle pecorino romano and half of mozzerella over the oil.
- Top with vegetable mixture (and cooked chicken if using), then add the remaining mozzerella.
- Using a fast, confident, forward-then-back jerking motion, transfer pizza from peel to hot pizza stone and place in oven.
- Bake 8-12 minutes (checking every minute after 7) or until crust is golden and bubbled and cheese is evenly browned.
- (Alternately, bake pizza on a thin pizza pan shape and top the pizza on the pan, dont worry about tossing it with this method.
- Baking on a pan takes a few minutes longer to get crust done, and it wont get as crisp.)
- Allow to cool on stone/pan for several minutes before slicing and serving.
allpurpose, kosher salt, yeast, water, olive oil, honey, olive oil, garlic, mushrooms, spinach, romano cheese, salt
Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/white-pizza-with-spinach-garlic/ (may not work)