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Tyler Florence prepares to make pizza margherita by adding some extra-virgin olive oil to a preheated pan. He adds four cloves of chopped garlic, and about two tablespoons each of fresh Mediterranean oregano and thyme. He then uses food scissors to cut up canned whole tomatoes before adding them to the pan and stirring. He seasons with salt and fresh cracked pepper. While the sauce cooks, he kneads his homemade dough and stretches it into an oblong shape, like a flatbread. A sheet pan is heating in an oven set to 450 degrees F. He removes the sheet pan from the oven, coats it with extra-virgin olive oil and lays the pizza dough on top, where it begins cooking immediately. Tyler uses a ladle to add the Neapolitan sauce on top of the dough. He uses the ladle to drain some of the liquid so it doesn’t make the dough soggy. He then adds chunks of buffalo mozzarella to the pizza. Tyler tops it all off with whole basil leaves, a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil and some salt and fresh cracked pepper. After baking for 15 to 20 minutes at 450 degrees F, the pizza margherita is ready.
Bobby Flay shares his tips and recipes for grilling a savory pizza and a dessert pizza. He starts with pizza dough he bought from his favorite pizzeria. He rolls it out thin and brushes it with canola oil, then slides the crusts onto a pizza peel and places them oil-side-down on the grill. After about one minute, the crusts are ready to turn over. Both crusts cook quickly. Bobby slides the crusts back on the peels and starts preparing them. For the savory margherita pizza, he drizzles olive oil onto the crust, then tops it with pieces of buffalo mozzarella, fresh tomatoes, and salt and pepper. To keep the crust from overcooking or burning, he places the pizza on a sheet pan before placing it back on the grill. For the dessert pizza, Bobby slathers mascarpone cheese on the crust, then tops it with grilled plum slices, blackberries, raspberries and a drizzle of honey. He places the dessert pizza on a sheet pan and puts it on the grill. When the pizzas are cooked, he drops torn basil leaves on top of the margherita pizza before slicing it up.
Chopped judge Marc Murphy remembers the best thing he ever ate on a road trip: the pizza pot pie from Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Co. Not a pot pie, not a deep-dish pizza, this dish is its own tasty entity. Wisconsin brick cheese, button mushrooms and secret tomato sauce with homemade pork sausage are layered inside a ceramic bowl and topped with triple-raised Sicilian dough and baked until it forms a moist, chewy and delicious crust. It's served flipped upside down onto a plate -- a meal Marc won't ever forget.
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