Ultimate Umami Pizza
A delicious savory pizza using a variety of umami ingredients!Word of caution - these toppings combine to make a pretty salty pizza, so if that's not your thing, skip the anchovies!
Equipment
- 1 Mixing Bowl
- 1 Stand Mixer Optional
- 1 Outdoor pizza oven Optional
- 1 Pizza Peel Optional
- 1 Pizza pan or cookie sheet (if cooking in regular oven)
- 1 Pizza Cutter
Ingredients
Dough Ingredients
- .5 Cups Water
- 2 Cups Bread Flour Separated into 1.5 cups and 0.5 cups
- 0.25 Cup Water warm (between 100-100F)
- .5 Tsp Active dry yeast (one envelope)
- 1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
Pizza Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp AP flour and/or cornmeal If using a pizza peel
- 1 Tbsp Olive Oil if using pizza pan/cookie sheet
- .3 Cup Tomato-based pizza sauce Store-bought or homemade
- 1 Tbsp Furikake
- 0.3 Cup Parmesan Cheese grated
- 1.5 Ounces Mushrooms Your choice of varieties!
- 1 Ounces Anchovies (one tin)
- 0.5 Ounce Olives (green or black)
- 4 Ounces Medium Gouda cheese About 1 cup
- 1.5 Ounces Parma Ham (Prosciutto)
Instructions
Prepare the Dough
- Add the dry yeast to the 1/4 cup of warm water in a stand mixer bowl. Whisk for 30 seconds. Ensure the yeast is active by checking for bubbles.
- Add the remaining water.
- Add 1 cup of flour and start the mixer on its slowest setting.
- Knead or mix the yeast and water into dough mixture thoroughly. Slowly add additional flour but keep 1/2 cup in reserve.
- Stop the mixer and add the soy sauce to the dough.
- Restart the mixer and continue adding the last of the flour.
- Continue to mix your dough until the ingredients are uniformly mixed. However, because the soy sauce was added later, it will result in some streaking in the dough, which is for effect.
- If after mixing the dough is dry, add a little bit of extra water. If it is sticky, add a little bit of flour.
- Cover the dough and let it rest for at least 20 minutes.
- Use this time to prepare your pizza toppings. You'll want them ready as soon as our dough is stretched.
Prepare Your toppings.
- Preheat your oven. 450F for an indoor oven or 900F for an outdoor pizza oven.
- Wash, dry and cut the mushrooms and set aside.
- Drain and dry the olives and set aside. If you are using whole olives, pit and cut them.
- Grate the Gouda cheese and set aside.
- Grate the Parmesan cheese and set aside.
- Cut your Parma ham into halves or thirds (optional) and set aside.
Prepare the Pizza
- Roll out the pizza dough and place it on a pizza peel or pizza pan.
- Add sauce. Spread the sauce around the pizza evenly, using the back of a spoon or a spatula.
- Sprinkle the furikake on the pizza sauce.
- Sprinkle the parmesan cheese on top of your pizza sauce.
- Evenly top the pizza with your mushrooms.
- Evenly distribute your olives on the pizza.
- Break the anchovies into halves and distribute between the mushrooms and olives.
- Evenly distribute your gouda cheese on the pizza.
- Evenly distribute the Parma ham on top of the cheese. (Some people may prefer the cheese on top).
Cook the Pizza
- Follow the baking instructions per your pizza dough recipe.
- With our homemade pizza dough recipe, preheat the oven to 450 and cook for 15 minutes. Rotate the pizza at least once.
- If you have a pizza stone, you can bake the pizza for 12 minutes and then slide it off the pizza pan and onto the pizza stone that has been preheating in the oven with the pizza. Cooke on the pizza stone for 5 minutes.
- Turn the oven off and let the pizza finish baking on the stone for about 3-5 minutes.
- Remove the pizza and let it rest for 5 minutes.
- Cut, serve, and eat immediately.
Nutrition
Calories: 1900kcalCarbohydrates: 209gProtein: 88gFat: 78gSaturated Fat: 34gPolyunsaturated Fat: 8gMonounsaturated Fat: 31gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 195mgSodium: 3585mgPotassium: 1607mgFiber: 11gSugar: 14gVitamin A: 2162IUVitamin C: 18mgCalcium: 1278mgIron: 7mg
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