Recipes
Stuffed-Crust Pizza
Make a delicious stuffed-crust pizza at home—it turns out perfectly!
Ingredients
- •1 1/2 glasses of water (300 ml)
- •1/2 tablespoon salt (5 g)
- •2 tablespoons sugar (20 g)
- •3 cups plain flour (500 g)
- •1/4 glass olive oil (50 ml)
- •1 tablespoon dry yeast (10 g)
- •200 g grated mozzarella
- •200 g Brazilian calabresa sausage (150 g grated and 50 g sliced into rounds)
- •200 g homemade Catupiry or Brazilian requeijão cream cheese
- •Oregano to taste
Instructions
- 1
Place the yeast, sugar and water in a bowl and whisk well.
- 2
Add the olive oil, then gradually add the flour, adding the salt with the first portion of flour.
- 3
Once the dough becomes too stiff to whisk, remove the whisk and continue adding the flour, kneading by hand until the dough reaches the right consistency.
- 4
Transfer the dough to a work surface and knead until elastic.
- 5
Shape the dough into a ball, dust the bowl with flour, place the dough inside, cover with a cloth and let rest for 30 minutes.
- 6
After resting, roll out the dough into a circle approximately 40 cm in diameter.
- 7
Place the dough on a pizza pan, pipe or spoon Catupiry all around the edge, then sprinkle with grated mozzarella and oregano.
- 8
Fold the dough hanging over the pan over the filling around the edge and press firmly to seal.
- 9
Spread tomato sauce over the center of the pizza and let rest for 30 minutes.
- 10
After resting, bake in a preheated oven at 200°C for 35 minutes.
- 11
Remove from the oven and top with a layer of grated mozzarella, a layer of grated calabresa sausage, another layer of grated mozzarella and a layer of sliced calabresa sausage. Sprinkle with oregano.
- 12
Return to the oven for another 10 minutes to melt the cheese and finish browning the pizza.