Recipe courtesy of Brick & Fire
Spicy Summer Peach Pizza
- Level: Intermediate
- Yield: 3 pizzas (4 to 6 servings)
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- Nutritional Analysis
- Per Serving
- Serving Size
- 1 of 6 servings
- Calories
- 968
- Total Fat
- 59
- Saturated Fat
- 24
- Carbohydrates
- 67
- Dietary Fiber
- 3
- Sugar
- 9
- Protein
- 40
- Cholesterol
- 105
- Sodium
- 1260
- Total: 15 hr (includes rising and fermentation time)
- Active: 1 hr
Ingredients
Crust:
1 gram instant yeast
1 pound '00' Italian pizza flour, preferably Caputo, plus more for dusting
2 grams salt
1 ounce extra-virgin olive oil
Toppings:
8 ounces Goat Cheese Creme Fraiche, recipe follows
3 ripe peaches, sliced into 8 wedges each
1/2 red onion, sliced into thin strips
3 jalapenos, sliced into 1/4-inch rounds (seeded if they are spicy ones!)
9 ounces Italian shredded cheese blend (Asiago, Parmesan and Romano)
Eighteen 5-inch strips thin-sliced pancetta
1 cup fresh arugula
Goat Cheese Creme Fraiche:
1/2 cup (4 ounces) soft goat cheese (chevre)
1/2 cup (4 ounces) creme fraiche or sour cream
Directions
- For the crust: Sprinkle yeast over 10 ounces warm water (90 to 100 degrees F?feels like mild bath water) and stir.
- Let sit 5 minutes to bloom.
- Add flour and salt to a stand mixer fitted with dough hook attachment and mix to evenly distribute.
- With mixer on a medium speed, slowly add yeasted water, then olive oil. Let mix until a smooth elastic dough ball forms, 6 to 7 minutes.
- Turn dough onto a floured work surface and knead by hand for 2 minutes.
- Form dough into a tight ball and place in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit in a warm place to proof until it has approximately doubled in size, about 1 hour.
- Turn dough out onto a floured work surface and divide into 3 equal portions. Form each into a tight dough round by hand and place in smaller bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate to slowly ferment, 12 to 24 hours.
- Turn dough out onto a floured work surface and spread by hand into approximately 12-inch pizza crusts.
- Carefully lift crusts onto a floured pizza peel or the back of a floured cookie sheet.
- For the toppings: Preheat the oven with a pizza stone in it on the highest setting possible; 650 degrees F in a wood-fired pizza oven or 500 degrees F in a conventional oven.
- Spread a thin layer (about 1/2 cup) Goat Cheese Creme Fraiche over each dough.
- Place 8 pieces of peach on each. Sprinkle sliced red onions around pizza.
- Place sliced jalapenos around pizza. Sprinkle cheese evenly over pizzas. Place 6 pieces pancetta in a spoke pattern around pizzas.
- Shimmy a pizza onto hot pizza stone in oven.
- Bake until edges are golden and crispy looking, 4 to 9 minutes.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle fresh arugula over top. Cut pizza into 6 wedges and serve. Repeat with remaining pizzas.
Goat Cheese Creme Fraiche:
- Soften goat cheese at room temperature for 30 minutes. Mix goat cheese and creme fraiche together until smooth and well combined.