Sunday, October 19, 2014

Sawsheezle does pizza: Part 5 - White Pizza and Docking Dough

I ran out of marinara sauce. It almost always lasts for exactly 4 pizzas, but this time I only got 3 out of it. I  decided to try my hand at a "white pizza". There are several kinds of "white" pizza with simpler recipes only calling for olive others...others call for cream and fancy cheeses. This is what I came up with.

Some ingredients:

*Not pictured: milk, flour, thyme, salt, pepper

Recipe:

2-4 Tbsp crushed garlic
2 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
1 Tbsp thyme
1-2 Tbsp flour
1-2 Tbsp anchovy fish sauce
salt and pepper to taste

First get that butter melting.


Then get the garlic going in the butter. Make sure not to burn away the butter or to scorch the garlic.


Then add the thyme to get the aromatics, flavor, and beautification factor up there.


Now add the milk and stir around. This this is over medium to low heat the entire time.


Now add the cheese and flour. More flour will make a thicker sauce.


Then while that is cooking do something crazy and go back in time 6 hours to the grocery store and buy some fish sauce. Notice that is has a slightly sweet and salty yet complex flavor. Add to mixture and let simmer for five minutes while stirring and letting thicken up. You want to it be be lukewarm at most when you put it on the pizza.


Now get out your dough docker and let's dock. I bought this one: http://www.amazon.com/Winco-RD-5-Roller-Docker-Full-Size/dp/B001CDQ9GI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1413760556&sr=8-3&keywords=dough+docker


It seriously is like Thor's hammer man.


Here is some docked dough:


I prebaked the crust four 3.5 mins on the pizza stone in a 500 deg F oven. Notice that I cannot make a circular pizza anyway...skills fading...and the docking helped limit bubbles, but the crust was still thick. Thins crust needs more work...


Add that beautiful sauce. It was cheesy yet garlicy yet creamy yet with something else going on with that fish liquid. I was surprised it tasted so good. Now add cheese, I used cheddar and mozzarella for a nice color mixture, sausage, lots of onions thinly sliced (the thinner the better), and finish with fresh basil leaves.


Delicious. Seriously. It was amazing. Ate it while watching "Marry Me". Nice little combo. Went well with a robust IPA

1 comment:

  1. Looks great. Were you even trying to make it a round pizza? It looks like you were going for a rectangle and then it turned into an indistinguishable blob.

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