A mushroom pie in a shop is often buried in mozzarella. Take the cheese away and you have to cook the mushrooms properly. Dry pan, salt, until they brown. Garlic after, so it does not burn.
This is closer to a Roman pizza bianca than to a New York white.
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
- Mixed mushrooms, sliced
- 3 garlic cloves, sliced
- Parsley
- Chili flakes
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- Salt
- Lemon zest (optional)
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
- 01Sauté mushrooms until they brown.
- 02Stretch.
- 03Oil, no tomato.
- 04Mushrooms and garlic.
Cook
Oven
- 01Steel at 290°C (550°F) for 45 minutes.
- 02Bake 7–8 minutes until the rim blisters.
- 03Parsley, chili, optional lemon zest.
Gas pizza oven
- 01Preheat on high, 400–455°C (750–850°F).
- 0260–90 seconds, turning.
- 03Garlic burns — slice it thin.
- 04Herbs after.
Wood-fired oven
- 01Floor 425–455°C (800–850°F). 60–90 seconds.
- 02Closer to a Roman bianca than to a New York white.
