Potato and Pancetta Pizza
Makes 3 medium pizzas
Ingredients
For the pizza dough
- 500g/4 cups white bread flour
- 2 tsp salt
- 7g/2 tsp active dry yeast
- ½ tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 325 ml/1 ⅓ cups lukewarm water
For the toppings
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 8 pancetta strips/thick cut bacon cooked
- 3 medium potatoes boiled and sliced
- 2 rosemary sprig leaves chopped
- 250g/8 oz fresh mozzarella
- 125g/1/2 cup smoked Gouda or smoked Cheddar grated
Instructions
For the pizza dough
- In a bowl mix sugar, yeast, olive oil and lukewarm water and let the yeast work its magic for about 5 minutes.
- Sift together flour and salt and empty the mixture in the food processor or a stand mixer, add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture and pulse it until the dough comes together.
- Remove the dough from the food processor into a large bowl, cover it with a tea towel and let it rise somewhere warm for 2 hours. (You can easily make it by hand if you don’t own the machines but they make this task a snap.)
- Once the dough is doubled in size remove the bowl on a flour dusted surface and knead it a bit. Divide the dough into 3 equal sized balls.
For the toppings
- While your dough is rising prepare the toppings by boiling unpeeled potatoes and cooking the pancetta or bacon.
- When potatoes are cool enough to handle peel them and slice into ¼" rounds. Cut pancetta into strips and set both potatoes and pancetta aside.
Assemble pizza
- Preheat your oven to 500F/300C or as high as it could go. If using pizza stone make sure it is preheating in the oven as well.
- Stretch out your pizza dough until it is quite thin in the middle and slightly thicker around the edges and place it on a sheet of parchment paper, that's been oiled or sprinkled with semolina or corn flour.
- Spread 1 tbsp of olive oil on each pizza crust, then spread potato rounds and sprinkle with chopped rosemary, pancetta strips, mozzarella and smoked Gouda or Cheddar.
- Transfer the pizza on parchment paper on the pizza stone. Bake in it the preheated oven for 8-10 minutes. Don't wait longer than that or pizza will turn crunchy instead of soft and pliable.
- Repeat with the remaining 2 pizzas.
Nutrition
Calories: 876kcalCarbohydrates: 124gProtein: 26gFat: 30gSaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 43mgSodium: 1518mgPotassium: 915mgFiber: 7gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 229IUVitamin C: 14mgCalcium: 293mgIron: 7mg
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