Cerasuola Pizza - ★Cooking Recipes★

This recipe makes 10 pizza crusts and enough other ingredients for 1 pizza; Freeze the dough and use it for up to 3 months!
Directions for: Cerasuola Pizza

Ingredients

Dough

1 cups whole wheat flour

11 cups white flour

1 tsp + a pinch fresh brewer's yeast (1/4 oz)

2 Tbsp salt

Tbsp olive oil

Toppings (per pizza)

cup sliced porcini mushrooms

2 Tbsp butter

7 cherries, pitted

tsp sugar

2 oz goat and cow's milk cheese

Salt

Directions

Dough

1. To make the dough, sift together half the whole wheat flour, half the white flour, and all of the fresh brewers yeast; stir in 4 cups of water.

2. Pour flour mixture into the bowl of a stand mixer and mix well until incorporated, about 5 minutes.

3. Once mixture is combined, gradually mix in remaining whole wheat and white flour; continue mixing for 5 minutes.

4. In the last minute of mixing, add the olive oil; continue mixing for 2 to 3 minutes, until oil is incorporated.

5. Cover dough and set aside to rest at room temperature for 2 to 3 hours, until doubled in size.

6. Divide dough into ten 9-ounce balls. Each ball of dough will make one 12-inch pizza.

7. Wrap unused dough in plastic wrap and freeze for later use; cover remaining dough and set aside to rest at room temperature for an additional 6 to 7 hours.

Toppings (per pizza)

1. Preheat pizza oven to 800F.

2. To prepare the mushrooms, stir and cook porcini mushrooms with 1 tablespoon of butter over medium heat for 4 to 5 minutes, until softened; set mushrooms aside.

3. To prepare the cherries, stir together cherries, 1 tablespoon of butter, and a pinch of salt in a large pan.

4. Stir in the sugar and cup of water and heat over medium heat; cover and steam for 3 to 4 minutes, until cherries have softened.

5. To shape the pizza, pull dough by hand into a 12-inch pizza with a raised edge.

6. Sprinkle cheese, reserved mushrooms, and reserved cherries over the pizza and slide pizza into the oven to bake for 1 to 2 minutes.

Tips and Substitutions

Special Equipment: Sifter, large stand mixer, wood-burning pizza oven

Dough must rise for at least 8 hours before baking.Recipe makes enough dough for 10 pizzas.

Source and Credits

Courtesy of Giancarlo Casa of La Gatta Mangiona

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