Pizza Con Rucola

6 ingredients
8 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 -2 lb pizza dough, for two 9-inch pizzas (Neapolitan-Style Pizza Dough or a Neapolitan pizza dough, is recommended)
  • cornmeal or semolina flour, for dusting peel
  • 3 ounces full-fat mozzarella cheese or 3 ounces smoked mozzarella cheese, shredded coarsely
  • 2 tomatoes, cut into 1/4 inch thick slices (or 12 cherry tomatoes, quartered)
  • 1/4 1/4 cup pecorino romano cheese or 1/4 cup asiago cheese
  • 5 large arugula leaves (to taste)

Directions

  1. 1
    Place a baking stone on middle shelf of oven; preheat oven to highest setting for at least 1 hour.
  2. 2
    *Make pizza one at a time: shape dough on floured surface; transfer it to pizza peel or inverted sheet pan that has been dusted with flour.
  3. 3
    Spread half of the mozzarella over the surface of the dough; distribute half the tomatoes over the cheese; sprinkle half the grated Parmigiano-Reggiano over the top.
  4. 4
    Carefully slide the pizza from the peel onto the baking stone; bake for 7-9 minutes.
  5. 5
    When pizza is done, the crust should be puffy and slightly charred on the edge and thinner in the center, and the cheese should be golden; the underside of the crust should be brown and crisp, not white and soft.
  6. 6
    While the pizza is baking, stack the arugula leaves, roll them up lengthwise and cut thinly crosswise to create shreds.
  7. 7
    Remove the finished pizza from oven and immediately sprinkle half of the arugula over the top; let pizza cool for about 3 minutes so that the arugula can begin to wilt, then serve it whole or in slices.
  8. 8
    Repeat with the remaining ingredients to make the second pizza.

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