Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Cheese Pizza Recipe


How to make homemade Four Cheese Pizza recipe? Although there are many variations of this pizza parlor favorite, here's my favorite, with a little roasted garlic to help tone down the heaviness of all that cheese. If you'd like to come up with your own combination of four cheeses, keep this in mind: at least two of them should be semi firm cheeses like Cheddar or Monterey Jack; at least one should be a hard cheese like Parmigiano Reggiano or Grana Padano; and none should be a soft cheese like ricotta or goat cheese. Look for roasted garlic cloves at the salad or deli bar of your local supermarket. Follow this simple directions:
INGREDIENTS:
Yellow cornmeal for a pizza peel or olive oil for a pizza tray or a large baking sheet
One recipe homemade dough or1 poundpurchased fresh dough or frozen dough, thawed; or one 12 to14 inchstore bought, pre baked plain pizza crust
1 head roasted garlic, cloves separated and their husks removed
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoonDijonmustard
4 ouncesmozzarella, shredded
4 ouncesprovolone, shredded
4 ouncesMuenster, shredded
2 ouncesPecorino, finely grated
1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
BAKING TIPS:
With a pizza stone. Preheat the stone in the oven at425°Ffor 30 to 45 minutes; or preheat the stone on a gas grill at medium, indirect heat (about425°F) for 30 to 45 minutes; or build an indirect, medium- heat fire in a charcoal grill and preheat the stone for the same amount of time.
With a pizza tray or a large baking sheet. Preheat the oven to425°F, a gas grill to indirect, medium heat (about425°F), or build an indirect, medium heat, well ashed coal bed around the perimeter of a charcoal grill.
CRUST TIPS
Fresh dough on a pizza stone. Dust a pizza peel lightly with cornmeal, then set the dough at its center. Start dimpling the dough, pressing into it with your fingertips as you stretch it slightly, until it's a thick, flattened circle with lots of little ridges. Pick it up by the edge and slowly rotate and stretch the circle until it's about14 inches in diameter. Set it floured side down on the peel.
Fresh dough on a pizza tray or a large baking sheet. Grease either lightly with some olive oil on a paper towel. Lay the dough on the tray or baking sheet and dimple the dough with your fingertips until it's a flattened circle then pull and press it until it forms a 14- inch circle on the pizza tray or an irregular rectangle, about 12 inches long by 7 inches wide, on the baking sheet.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for sharing this recipe it's definitely a really good reward for my brother who got his Bartender Certification last week. But still work on the dough first. I'm not really the cook-type but I'd like to do something special for him.

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