This pizza celebrates the last days of summer with a colourful display of heritage tomatoes, goat’s cheese and fresh basil. Best served with a chilled glass of rose in the evening sun.
Method
Preheat your pizza oven to 375˚C and roll out your dough. Place onto a floured peel and start by spreading olive tapenade around the pizza base with the base of the spoon.
Next arrange discs of goat’s cheese and sliced heritage tomato.
Bake your pizza in the pizza oven for 2-3 mins turning every 30 seconds or so for an even crust.
Remove from the oven and top with freshly chopped bail, cornflowers, sea salt and cracked black pepper. Finish with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
This pizza was baked on the Alfa Forni 5 Minuti. For more information and prices, click here.
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Goats Cheese and Heritage Tomato Pizza
This pizza celebrates the last days of summer with a colourful display of heritage tomatoes, goat’s cheese and fresh basil. Best served with a chilled glass of rose in the evening sun.
Method
This pizza was baked on the Alfa Forni 5 Minuti. For more information and prices, click here.
Ingredients:
Serves 2
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The perfect pizza is a tall order, not least because ‘the perfect pizza’ is pretty subjective. For some, the perfect pizza has pineapple on it; for others, ‘perfect’ is a few basil leaves carefully placed on a Campania buffalo mozzarella and a sauce of San Marzano tomatoes grown in the fertile volcanic soil of Mount Vesuvius, all baked in a woodfired pizza oven.
But regardless of the toppings, there are definitely utensils and tools that help you cook your perfect pizza.
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