Anna Teresa Callen's Pizza alla Cozze
- 1/2 recipe basic pizza dough (see note)
- 5 ripe plum tomatoes, peeled, seeded and sliced
- 3 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
- Pinch of oregano
- Salt to taste
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 20 small to medium sized mussels (1 to 1 1/2 pounds), well scrubbed
- 1/4 cup dry white wine or water
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/2 tablespoon freshly minced parsley
- Freshly ground black pepper
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Roll or stretch dough to fit a lightly oiled 12-inch pizza pan.
- Mix tomatoes with 3 tablespoons of the oil, the oregano, salt and garlic.
- Spread over dough.
- Place pizza on bottom shelf of preheated oven and bake from 15 to 20 minutes, until lightly browned but not quite finished.
- While the pizza is baking, steam mussels in wine or water in a covered saucepan until they just open.
- Shuck them and toss them in a bowl with remaining half tablespoon of oil, the lemon juice, parsley and pepper.
- After the pizza has baked from 15 to 20 minutes as in step 4, remove it from the oven and arrange the seasoned mussels attractively over the top.
- Return pizza to oven to finish baking, 5 to 10 minutes longer.
- Serve at once.
recipe basic pizza, tomatoes, olive oil, oregano, salt, clove garlic, mussels, white wine, lemon juice, parsley, freshly ground black pepper
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/6686 (may not work)