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Easy Garlicky White Pizza

This pizza recipe resembles a Neoplitan-style pizza with garlic. | Ideahacks.com
Like most Americans, I’m obsessed with pizza. I love Neopolitan-style pizza (my favorite). Tangy and cracker-thin crusted St.Louis-style pizza. Deep-dish Chicago pizza. Chewy and thin New York-style pizza.

French bread pizza. English muffin pizza. Pizza dip. Pizza rolls.

You get the picture. I LOVE pizza. (Me and a billion other people.) While Kansas City isn’t exactly known for any specific kind of pizza per se, we have more than our fair share of local pizzerias around the metro area.

One of my favorites happens to be a Neopolitan-style place whose pizzas remind me so much of the ones I had in Italy, at times I could almost swear they’re identical. Typically when I go there, I order a classic – margarita pizza.

No fuss. Just a perfectly chewy crust, with the sweetest, simplest tomato sauce, gooey handmade mozzarella, and fresh basil. Pure perfection.

This pizza recipe resembles a Neoplitan-style pizza with garlic. | Ideahacks.com

On occasion, I’ll branch out and go with something a little untraditional, and I’m always left wondering why I didn’t just go with my tried-and-true favorite because my impromptu choice is never as good as my go-to order.

That is….until a few years ago when I tried their white “special” pizza. Good Lord, is this pizza pie delicious. While it doesn’t replace my margarita pizza, it is a nice departure when I’ve had my fair share of red sauce-based pizzas.

The restaurant’s version has a garlicky olive oil base and then is covered in a ridiculous amount of fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced tomatoes, and dollops of creamy ricotta, it’s then popped into the wood-fire oven until it’s golden brown and bubbly.

Straight out of the oven it’s covered in freshly grated parmesan cheese and then served with oregano, crushed red pepper flakes and even more parmesan cheese to dress as you see fit.

This is my version of that pizza.

Garlicky White Pizza Ingredients

I’ll make my own pizza crust if it’s the weekend, but there are so many great options for pre-made pizza crusts, that oftentimes I’ll skip the homemade crust and go for one of them.

A great option is to go to your local pizza place and ask if you can buy dough from the back, usually, they’re more than willing to sell it to you for a couple of bucks at most.

Another option, and one of my favorites, is the premade dough at Trader Joe’s; it comes in three different varieties, plain, whole-wheat and garlic; I’ve tried and loved them all, so you really can’t go wrong.

The base of the pizza begins simply with a brush of good-quality olive oil, just a tablespoon will do, and then my secret weapon – garlic. This sounds kind of silly, but what I do is scatter thinly sliced garlic all over the base of the pie, so there is a piece of garlic in each bite.

The heat from the oven will almost roast the garlic, but the cheese prevents it from burning – honestly, it’s really what makes the pizza.

Garlicky White Pizza

For the shredded cheese combination, I went with a mild mozzarella (not fresh) and sharp Gruyere cheese; I really like the combination of the two, plus they both melt ridiculously well.

Once the pizza is covered in the cheese mixture I dollop it with fresh ricotta cheese and pop it onto a pizza stone that’s been preheated in a 550-degree oven.

Once it comes out it’s sprinkled with parmesan cheese, chopped parsley, and spicy red pepper flakes.

A quick note on cooking pizzas. I highly, highly recommend using a pizza stone. The only way to achieve a crispy crust even remotely resembling a wood-fire oven is to use a pizza stone.

They can be purchased pretty inexpensively, and they even work great on frozen pizzas; I promise you, you will not regret purchasing it!

I can promise you, this will be one of the best pizzas you’ve ever made. So so good.

Easy Garlicky White Pizza
 
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Prep time
15 mins
Cook time
15 mins
Total time
30 mins
 
Author: Nicole Leggio
Recipe type: Entree
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 1 batch of your favorite pizza dough
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 3 garlic cloves, sliced very thin
  • 2 cups shredded Gruyere cheese
  • 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
  • ¾ cup fresh ricotta cheese
  • ¼ cup parmesan cheese, plus more for sprinkling
  • Parsley and red pepper flakes for sprinkling
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 550 degrees. Add pizza stone. Heat pizza stone for at least 20 minutes.
  2. Roll out pizza dough into a circle on a pizza wheel covered in cornmeal or plenty of flour (so the dough can easily slide on to the pizza stone)
  3. Brush with olive oil and sprinkle sliced garlic evenly across pizza dough. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  4. In a bowl combine mozzarella and Gruyere cheese. Sprinkle over pizza.
  5. Dollop with ricotta cheese.
  6. Slide onto pizza stone. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until the crust is crisp and cheese is brown and bubbly.
  7. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese, parsley and red pepper flakes.
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By Nicole Leggio Filed Under: Food Tagged With: pizza

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