Pizza di Parma

Matglede - Tine App

Today I made pizza with white pizza sauce....It was a succes and will definitely be repeated!

Pizza di Parma
(makes 1 baking tray)

Ingredients:
-for the dough:
25 gr fresh yeast
1,5 dl lukewarm water
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
4 dl wholegrain spelt flour

-for the sauce & topping:
2 dl crème fraîche
2 - 4 cloves of garlic
250 gr Jarlsberg cheese, grated
250 gr cherry tomatoes
200 gr artichoke hearts (I used artichoke hearts marinated in olive oil together with mediterranean herbs)
100 gr parma ham (or other good cured ham)
pine nuts
rocket salad / arugula

Preparation:
1.) Sart by making the pizza dough by dissolving the yeast in the lukewarm water. Add the olive oil, salt and 3,5 dl of the spelt flour.
2.) Cover the bowl with plastic film or a cloth, and leave to rise for about 20 minutes.
3.) Use the rest of the spelt flour when rolling out the dough. Put the dough onto a buttered baking tray.

4.) Make the white pizza sauce by adding crushed garlic to the crème fraîche and spread it onto the dough.
5.) Spread the Jarlsberg cheese over the crème fraîche, and top with (marinated) artichoke hearts and halved cherry tomatoes (cut side up).
6.) Bake the pizza in a preheated oven at 250 degrees Celsius, in the middle of the oven for 10 to 15 minutes.
7.) Add the parma ham, pine nuts and arugula/rocket salad, and serve!

Enjoy!

Hubby rating: 4

Heavenly Spelt Pizza

Today I took time off from work to get home a little bit earlier than usual... Not to sit down on the couch and watch tv immediately after coming home....Nope, not this time! I have had pizza on my mind for a couple of days now and was fed up with the usual recipe, so now it was about time to try a new one. With half a bag of spelt flour left from baking buns with carrot and sunflower seeds, I had to try making my own spelt pizza base. Then I challenged myself to make tomato sauce from scratch as well. Well....the result was outright scrumptious!!!

Heavenly Spelt Pizza
( 1 baking tray)

- for the pizza base:
15 gr fresh yeast
1,5 dl water, lukewarm
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp coarse sea salt
5 dl spelt flour

- for the tomato sauce:
olive oil
1 onion, diced
1 clove of garlic, diced
1 red chili, deseeded and diced
400 gr canned tomatoes
2 tbsp tomato purée
oregano / basil / thyme / salt / pepper

- for the topping:
shredded cheese (I used Jarlsberg)
slices of pan fried bacon
slices of ham
red pepper,diced
cherry tomatoes, halved
sliced mushrooms
fresh basil

1.) Dissolve the fresh yeast into the lukewarm water in a large bowl.
2.) Add the olive oil and sea salt.
3.) Add the spelt flour bit by bit, until it forms a non-sticky elastic dough.
4.) Set aside to rise for about 20 minutes. Start making the tomato sauce in the meantime.

5.) Pour a couple of tbsp of olive oil into a hot medium-sized cooking pot.
6.) Add the diced onion, garlic and red chili and fry them, but don't let them turn brown.
7.) Add the canned tomatoes, tomato purée and herbs to taste, and stir well.
8.) Turn down the heat and let it simmer until you have a thick sauce.

9.) Use a rolling pin to turn the dough into a pizza base and transfer it to a baking tray lined with baking parchment.
10.) Add the tomato sauce.
11.) Add the cheese first, and then the rest of the topping.
12.) Bake the pizza for 10 minutes on the middle/upper rack of the oven, which has been preheated to 250 degrees Celsius.
13.) Scatter fresh brasil over the pizza and serve.

Enjoy!!!