Monday, February 7, 2011

Quattro Gusti Pizza - Multi Toppings Pizza

I came across Jamie Olivers, quattro gusti pizza on YouTube, and decided to make my own kosher version. Nothing like his, but an interesting pizza in it's own right.
In our house, Thursday is pizza night.  Since I'm already preparing fresh homemade challah for Shabbos, I use the same dough for my children's favorite meal.
My children are fans of the Margarita pizza (probably because there are no visible vegetables) but my husband likes testing new flavors.
I often allow my kids to make individual size pizzas for themselves.  This is a fun activity even if I'm unable to convince them to add anything healthy to it.
A quattro pizza is basically a pizza, divided in 4, and a different topping in each part.

Due to the fact that I don't currently have a milchig oven, and have to make this in my toaster oven, I had to change the quattro to a Duo Pizza.  To get four flavors, I made two duo pizzas.

Quattro Pizza
  • 1 recipe pizza dough (or challah dough)
Preheat oven to 400. Roll out dough very thin. Cut a thin line from the shorter end and place piece down center of piece. (if making a quattro, do the same thing with the long side, cutting a piece and placing it down middle)  Roll up all 4 edges slightly to create a damn.    Place on lightly greased pan.  Fill each section with a different topping.
Bake in preheated oven from 10-12 minutes.  (if making Sunny Side-Up topping, place pizza in oven for 5 minutes, add egg and then continue baking for remainder minutes till egg is set and the rest of the pizzas look ready.

Topping 1 -  Roasted Garlic and Red Pepper
  • 1 bulb of garlic
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 1 onion sliced in circles
  • pizza cheese (when making these pizzas I used mozzarella/cheddar blend)
  • olive oil
  • oregano
Preheat oven to 400. Cut off 1/4 inch from top of garlic. Place on baking sheet.  Cut pepper in half, remove seeds. Place cut side down on baking sheet. Add sliced onions.  drizzle with olive oil.  Roast will form inserts into garlic easily.
Smash garlic with fork, add a few drops of olive oil to form thick paste.  Brush paste on one section on pizza.  Scatter thinly sliced red pepper and onions over garlic.  Cover with shredded cheese. Drizzle with a little olive oil and oregano.

Topping 2 - Hot Pepper
  • jarred hot banana pepper circles.
  • pizza sauce - homemade or store bought
  • pizza cheese (when making these pizzas I used mozzarella/cheddar blend)
  • olive oil
  • oregano
Spread pizza sauce on one section of the pizza.  Scatter hot peppers over it.  Cover with shredded cheese.  Drizzle with olive oil and oregano.

Topping 3 - Onion and Heart of Palm
  • 1 slices onion
  • 1 heart of palm - sliced in 1/4" slices (from a can, save rest of can for another use)
  • pizza sauce - homemade or store bought
  • pizza cheese (when making these pizzas I used mozzarella/cheddar blend)
  • olive oil
  • oregano
Preheat oven to 400.  Place onions on baking pan, drizzle with olive oil.  Bake till soft. 
Spread pizza sauce on one section of pizza.  Scatter onion slices and heart of palm over pizza. Cover with shredded cheese.  Drizzle with olive oil and oregano.

Topping 4 - Sunny Side Up
  • 1-2 plum tomato - thinly sliced in rounds
  • 1 egg
  • black pepper
  • pizza cheese (when making these pizzas I used mozzarella/cheddar blend)
Preheat oven to 400. Place slices of tomato on one section of the pizza.  Cover with shredded cheese. Bake for 5 minutes.  Crack egg, place on top, careful not to break yoke (as you can see in the photo, I broke it :( ) Season with black pepper.

Margarita Pizza
  • pizza sauce - homemade or store bought
  • pizza cheese (when making these pizzas I used mozzarella/cheddar blend)
  • olive oil
  • oregano

Spread pizza sauce on one section of the pizza.  Cover with shredded cheese.  Drizzle with olive oil and oregano.
 
 









Bon appetit,
Chanie

5 comments:

  1. looks so good! I always make my own pizza dough and sauce from allrecipes.com, sunny side up pizza looks like my next try:)

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  2. Yum! These look delicious- your kids are lucky to have such a yummy supper on Thursdays - in our house its hot dogs, straight up!

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  3. Started making pizza on Thursdays, years ago, using Mia already made crusts, making it a super easy meal for a busy Erev Shabbos. But Mia pizza used to be much better, so we had to make a change. It's still an easy meal since I'm already making challah dough.

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  4. What's the key to making sure the dough is baked through, before the toppings get burnt (which has been my experience in the past)

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  5. The way to get a crisp pizza like from the store, you need to use a pizza stone which will give equal heat around. Without the use of the stone, the pizza dough will remain softer but its not raw, and is still delicious.

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