Recipe: Pizza with prosciutto cotto & eggs

Recipe

Yield: 2 pizzas

Ingredients:

Pizza dough:

• 1/4 liter of water
• 500 grams of Manitoba flour or Tipo ’00’ flour
• 15 grams of yeast
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• ½ tsp sugar
• Salt

Pizza

• 1 package of fresh mozzarella
• Tomato sauce
• 1 package (4 pieces) of Italian ham – Prosciutto cotto
• 1 bag of fresh mozzarella
• 6 eggs
• Cherry tomatoes with stem
• Garnish: Parsley

How to make it:

Pizza dough:

• Dissolve the yeast in the water and add the other ingredients
• Mix it, and knead the dough very well. The dough has to be firm and elastic. Knead it for min. 10 minutes (I always use my Kenwood kitchen machine)
• Cover the bowl with plastic wrap or put it in a plastic box with lid
• Let it raise for min. 4 hours or more

Pizza:

• When the dough is finish raising – Take it out of the fridge and let it rest (take it out, at least 1 hour before you start making the pizza, so the dough isn’t to hard)
• Pre heat the oven to the highest degrees, your oven can manage – Hot air
• Chop the parsley finely
• Slice or dice the mozzarella
• Crack the eggs carefully into each ramekin, so they keep the form
• Now .. work with the dough. Roll it and stretch it with your hands, so it becomes flat and thin. (use a small amount of durum flour for rolling the dough out)
• When the doug is thin enough – place it on a baking paper
• Take the hot baking plate out of the oven, and slide the pizza on baking paper on to the hot baking plate
• Put tomato sauce on the pizza. Put mozzarella and the ham on the pizza too.
• Steady and carefullt pour out the eggs from the ramekins onto the pizza.
• Top with lots of delicious cherry tomatoes
• Put in the oven (the bottom shelf)
• Bake the pizza for aprox. 10 minutes – keep an eye on it
• Take the pizza out of the oven, and top with a lot of chopped parsley

⇒ TIP:
You will always get the best result with a dough, if you use a kitchen machine

⇒ TIP:
I always make the pizza dough in the morning, before work – It takes no time :). Then it will be in the frisge to raise all day – and be ready for me when I come home 🙂