Cime di rapa (broccoli rabe) is the green that makes orecchiette famous. On a pizza it wants oil, garlic, chili, and a crust that can take bitterness.
Blanch the greens. Squeeze them dry. They will still fight you. That is the point.
Ingredients
Pick one dough — homemade or a store-bought ball.
Homemade dough
- 500 g bread flour or Tipo 00
- 325 ml water
- 12 g salt
- 4 g instant yeast
Premade dough
- 1 ball store-bought pizza dough (250–280 g), room temperature 1 hour
Toppings
- A bunch of broccoli rabe or turnip tops
- 3 garlic cloves
- Chili flakes
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Lemon
Products & ingredients
What this pie actually wants. Flour, tomatoes, cheese, and tools — Amazon links, so this blog can keep going.
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Nutrition
If you buy the kit on this page
- Serving
- 1/4 pizza
- Calories
- 170
- Protein
- 5 g
- Carbohydrates
- 30 g
- Fat
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 400 mg
Pack labels of those brands (or USDA where a brand does not print a panel), times the grams in this recipe. Drain the mozzarella, swap a tin, or skip the oil and they move.
Labels used: Caputo Pizzeria 00, Diamond Crystal kosher salt, Calabrian chili, Partanna extra-virgin olive oil.
How to make and cook it
Bought dough? Skip “Make the dough.” Let the ball sit out 1 hour, then start at “Cook the pie.”
Make the base
- 01Mix 500 g flour, 325 ml water, 12 g salt, 4 g yeast.
- 02Knead, ball, cold-proof overnight.
- 03Temper 1 hour.
Or use premade dough
- 01Let a store-bought ball sit out for 1 hour until it is relaxed.
- 02Flour the bench.
- 03Stretch it to size — from here it is the same as homemade.
Add sauce and toppings
- 01Blanch broccoli rabe 1 minute.
- 02Squeeze dry.
- 03Sauté with garlic and chili.
- 04Stretch, oil the dough, spread the greens.
Cook
Oven
- 01Steel at 290°C (550°F) for 45 minutes.
- 02Bake 7–9 minutes until the leaf tips crisp and the rim blisters.
- 03Lemon.
Gas pizza oven
- 01Preheat on high, 400–455°C (750–850°F).
- 0260–90 seconds, turning.
- 03Greens go from crisp to ash — keep it moving.
- 04Lemon.
Wood-fired oven
- 01Floor 425°C (800°F). 60–90 seconds.
- 02Bitter green, hot crust.
- 03Eat with something cold.
