Pizza with Garlic and Olive Oil
- 1 large garlic clove
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano, crumbled
- a small pinch dried hot red pepper flakes
- coarse salt to taste
- all-purpose flour for dusting
- Pizza Dougha for one 9-inch pizza
- At least 45 minutes before baking pizza, put a pizza stone or 4 to 6 unglazed "quarry" tiles arranged close together on oven rack in lowest position in oven and preheat oven to highest setting (500-550F).
- Finely chop garlic and in a small bowl combine with oil, oregano, red pepper flakes, and coarse salt.
- On a lightly floured surface pat out dough evenly with your fingers, keeping hands flat and lifting and turning dough over several times, into a 9-inch round.
- (Do not handle dough more than necessary.
- If dough is sticky, dust it lightly with flour.)
- Dust a baker's peel or rimless baking sheet with flour and carefully transfer dough to it.
- Jerk peel or baking sheet once or twice and, if dough is sticking, lift dough and sprinkle flour underneath it, reshaping dough if necessary.
- Working quickly, top dough with oil mixture, spreading with back of a spoon to within 1/2 inch of edge.
- Line up far edge of peel or baking sheet with far edge of stone or tiles and tilt peel or baking sheet, jerking it gently to start pizza moving.
- Once edge of pizza touches stone or tiles, carefully pull back peel or baking sheet, completely transferring pizza to stone or tiles (do not move pizza).
- Bake pizza 6 to 7 minutes, or until dough is crisp and browned, and transfer with a metal spatula to a cutting board.
- Cut pizza into wedges and serve immediately.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/pizza-with-garlic-and-olive-oil-14649 (may not work)