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Italian pizza is a wheat flatbread covered with all kinds of toppings. The main ingredients are cheese and tomatoes or tomato sauce; other additives are included as desired or according to the recipe. In Russia, the filling containing wild mushrooms is especially popular. The most popular version of the dish is pizza with saffron milk caps, champignons or boletus.
Secrets of making pizza with saffron milk caps
The dish is included in the menu of many restaurants and cafes. There are pizzerias in almost every city, so the taste of the popular dish is familiar to everyone. The basis of the dish is a thin yeast flatbread made from flour with a high gluten content; the taste of the finished product depends on it. A few tips on how to quickly and efficiently make yeast dough:
- The flour is sifted through a sieve, in the process it is enriched with oxygen and the dough rises better.
- The classic Italian recipe uses only water, flour, salt and yeast. To make the dough soft and elastic, you can add butter.
- Before adding yeast to the preparation, soak it in water for several minutes until the granules are completely dissolved.
- Knead the dough for about 30 minutes on a dry surface sprinkled with flour. The better the dough is beaten, the faster it will rise. If the dough does not stick to your hands, it means it is ready.
- Place the pizza base in a cup, sprinkle flour on top so that the top layer does not dry out, cover with a napkin, and place in a warm place.
- The rise of the mass can be accelerated by placing it in a preheated oven. This method has its drawbacks, fermentation must take a certain time, artificial acceleration of the process will negatively affect the quality. If the temperature is too high, the yeast bacillus will die and the result will be the opposite of what you want.
- The dough will rise for about 2-3 hours, this time is enough to prepare the filling.
In pizzerias, the flatbread is stretched by hand. To prevent the dough from sticking to your hands, they are greased with sunflower oil. The central part should be about 1 cm thick, the edges – 2.5 cm. The shape of the workpiece will be in the form of a dish.
For filling, use saffron milk caps in any form. Mushrooms are combined with boiled poultry, seafood, beef or pork. If the saffron milk caps are raw, they are processed and sautéed. The dried ones are soaked, and the salted ones are washed with water. Cheese is an essential ingredient of the dish; in Italy they use mozzarella; any hard variety is suitable for homemade pizza.
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Mushrooms, recently collected or processed, are used to prepare the dish. In the fall, when the mass harvest takes place, it is better to take fresh saffron milk caps. For the filling, the size of the fruiting body does not matter. The main thing is that the mushrooms are undamaged and taken in an environmentally friendly area. In winter, salted, pickled or dried mushrooms are used.
Below are several simple recipes for pizza with saffron milk caps and a photo of the finished product.
Pizza with fresh saffron milk caps
To give a brighter mushroom flavor to pizza, fresh saffron milk caps must be prepared:
- The fruiting bodies are processed and washed well.
- Cut into arbitrary pieces.
- Fry in butter or sunflower oil until the moisture evaporates.
- Add finely chopped onion and sauté for 5 minutes.
The recipe is for 2 medium-sized pizzas. Required ingredients:
- water – 200 ml;
- olive oil – 5 tbsp. l.;
- flour – 3 tbsp;
- yeast – 1 tsp;
- cheese – 200 g;
- medium-sized saffron milk caps – 20 pcs.;
- salt to taste;
- red or green pepper – 1 pc.;
- tomatoes – 2 pcs.
Sequence of action:
- Flour is mixed with yeast.
- Add water and oil.
- Knead the dough and let it rise.
- Cut the peppers and tomatoes into half rings.
- Grind the cheese on a grater.
The filling is evenly distributed onto the finished flatbread, covered with cheese, and saffron milk caps, salt and pepper are placed on top. Grease the baking sheet with oil, place in the oven, set the temperature to +190 0C.
Pizza with dried saffron milk caps
To make pizza you will need:
- water – 220 ml;
- oil – 3 tbsp. l.;
- flour – 300 g;
- dried saffron milk caps – 150 g;
- cheese – 100 g;
- tomatoes – 400 g;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- yeast – 1.5 tsp;
- salt – 0.5 tsp;
- basil to taste.
Sequence of cooking pizza with saffron milk caps:
- Make the dough and put it in a warm place.
- The saffron milk caps are soaked in milk for 4 hours, then taken out and fried in a hot frying pan for a few minutes.
- Making the sauce. The garlic is cut into thin rings and fried. Tomatoes are doused with boiling water, peeled, cut into small pieces, and added to garlic. When the mixture boils, add salt and basil and keep on fire for 10 minutes.
- The cheese is grated.
- Roll out the flatbread and pour the cooled sauce onto it.
- Mushrooms are evenly distributed on top.
- Cover with a layer of cheese.
Bake at +200 0 C until golden brown (10-15 minutes).
Pizza with salted mushrooms
This recipe for pizza with salted mushrooms does not require an oven. The dish is prepared in a frying pan on a gas or electric oven. Pizza products:
- flour – 2.5 tbsp;
- saffron milk caps – 0.5 kg;
- egg – 2 pcs.;
- cheese – 200 g;
- sour cream – 200 g;
- sausage – 150 g;
- mayonnaise – 100 g;
- butter – 1 tbsp. l.;
- tomatoes – 2 pcs.;
- salt;
- parsley or basil optional.
Pizza preparation:
- Salted mushrooms are poured with cold water for 1 hour. Place on a napkin to allow the moisture to evaporate and cut into thin slices.
- Beat eggs, mayonnaise and sour cream with a mixer.
- Add flour to the mixture in parts and mix well.
- Tomatoes and sausage are cut arbitrarily.
- Heat a frying pan, add butter.
- Pour the dough, it will turn out to be a liquid consistency.
- Add mushrooms, sausage, tomatoes and herbs on top.
- Salt and crush with grated cheese.
Cover the pan with a lid, turn the heat to medium, and cook the pizza for 20 minutes. Before serving, the dish is sprinkled with herbs.
Calorie content of mushroom pizza
Pizza with saffron milk caps according to the classic recipe without adding meat, sausage and seafood has an average calorie content (per 100 g of dish):
- carbohydrates – 19.5 g;
- proteins – 4.6 g;
- fats – 11.5 g.
Nutritional value is 198-200 kcal.
Conclusion
Pizza with saffron milk caps is popular. The dish does not require material costs and is quickly prepared. The product turns out to be satisfying and average in calories. Saffron milk caps are suitable for filling in any form: raw, frozen, dried or salted. Mushrooms have a pleasant aroma that is transferred to the finished dish.