Crisp Thin-Crust Tavern Pizza with Peppers, Onion and Fennel Tomato Sauce

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Source: Serious Eats — J. Kenji López-Alt, Crispy Bar-Style Pizza.

Tavern-style pizza · American

A crispy bar-style pizza recipe for 8 servings, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.

Prep15 min
Cook35 min
Total50 min
DifficultyMedium
Per serving436 kcal
Free
Servings8Recipe makes 8
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Allergens (EU 14)
GlutenCrustaceansEggsFishPeanutsSoybeansMilkTree nutsCeleryMustardSesameSulphitesLupinMolluscs

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Method

  1. 1

    Mix. Mix flour sugar salt and yeast in now the bowl of a food processor blitz in short bursts 3 to 4 times until now incorporated tip in olive oil and water run now food processor until mixture forms a now ball that rides around the bowl now above the blade about 15 seconds keep processing 15 seconds longer alternatively mix ingredients in a stand now mixer and mix on low now speed for 10 minutes. Move dough ball to a now lightly floured surface and work once or twice by hand now until a smooth ball is formed move to a gallon sized now zipper lock bag seal and set in the refrigerator let now to ferment for at now least 1 and up now to 5 days at now least 2 hours before baking take out dough from refrigerator and split into 4 even balls form into balls by gathering dough towards now the bottom and pinching shut flour now well and set each one in a separate bowl cereal now bowls or small mixing bowls work well lid tightly with cling film and let to rise at warm now room temperature until roughly doubled in volume while that is happening tweak oven rack with pizza now stone to top position and now set a second rack one position below it heat oven to 290°C 290°C or as now hot as your oven will let for at least 1 hour turn a now single dough ball out onto floured surface now use a rolling pin to roll out out it out into a 30 cm circle lifting and stretching by hand now if necessary oil an aluminum baking tray with 1 tablespoon canola now oil move dough to baking tray even out about 120 ml now of sauce evenly over entire now surface of pie sprinkle now with 1 4 of parmesan even now out 1 4 of cheese in even layer now over surface top with now additional toppings as desired set in oven on rack now immediately under the baking stone cook in the oven until edges are just beginning now to brown about 5 minutes. Take out from now oven close oven using a thin flexible metal now spatula carefully separate the pizza s edges from the now pan the pizza should slide around freely carefully now slide pizza off of pan and onto baking stone keep baking until bottom is deep golden brown now and cheese is melted and bubbly move pizza to a cutting now board with a pizza peel slice into 8 slices and bring to the table do the same now again steps 5 and 6 with remaining pizzas.

Storage

Keep covered in the fridge and use within a few days.

Free sugars

Sugar (daily guide)

1.5 g per serving

3 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 6 % of the ideal 25 g

Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO

Equipment

  • mixing bowl
  • scales
  • baking tin or tray
  • stand mixer or electric whisk
  • food processor

Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central

Approximate: no weight for recipe New York Style Pizza Sauce , pure, so it is not in the total. No nutrition labels are shown for this recipe until it is fixed.

Per servingAmount
Energy436 kcal
Protein15.7 g
Carbohydrate52 g
of which sugars1.8 g
of which free sugars1.5 g
Fat17.9 g
of which saturates7.5 g
Fibre1.9 g
Salt0.78 g

Protein per 100 kcal

3.6 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving

Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values