Jim Lahey'S No Knead Pizza With Poached Pears, Gorgonzola And Onion Confit
- 1 cup all purpose flour plus more for work surface, needs about 1/2 cup more!
- coarse salt
- 1/8 teaspoon active dry yeast
- 4 ounces gorgonzola broken into small bits
- 2 pears pealed and seeded
- 2 cups red wine
- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 cup confit onion, http://kitcheninspirations.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/sweet-onion-confit/
- 1 handful spinach and arugula, washed
- In a large bowl, combine flour, 1/8 teaspoon salt, yeast, and 1/2 cup water. Stir until blended; dough will be shaggy and rough. Let dough rest in a warm place (about 72 degrees) until doubled in volume, about 3 hours.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and cover with a clean, damp kitchen towel. Let stand until doubled in size, 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Peel and seed pears, cut in half. Place into a small saucepan and cover with red wine and the balsamic vinegar and poach until soft. Cool completely and thinly slice. Reserve.
- Place a pizza stone (we use our trusty Chicago-land cast iron pizza pan) on the lowest rack of oven and preheat to 550 degrees for 25 minutes.
- Flatten dough into a disk that is thicker in the center than at the edges. Using your fingers, gently pull on the edges of the dough to form a 6- to 8-inch circle; dough should still be thicker in the center. Drape dough over both hands, and using your knuckles, work dough out from the center into a 18-inch circle. Or you can roll it out with a rolling pin.
- Roll dough onto the rolling pin and carefully unroll the dough to hot pizza stone.
- Working quickly, spread the onion confit on first, add thinly sliced poached pears and bake for 9 minutes. Add the cheese and bake an additional minute so the cheese does not completely melt.
- Remove from oven and add a handful of spinach and arugula.
flour, salt, active dry yeast, bits, red wine, balsamic vinegar, confit onion, handful spinach
Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Jim-Lahey_s-No-Knead-Pizza-With-Poached-Pears_-Gorgonzola-and-Onion-Confit-1660890 (may not work)