Figs Mushroom Pizza
By: Latesha Carter
Published: Friday, December 10, 2010 - 1:02am

Ingredients




2 Pizza dough rounds, half recipe
Cornmeal, as needed
2 teaspoons Olive oil
1/2 teaspoon Minced garlic
2 pinchs Kosher salt
Black pepper, as needed
1 cup Figs Mushroom Puree, full recipe
6 ounces Italian fontina cheese, thinly sliced
2 Portobello mushroom caps, thinly sliced
On the bias
2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
Truffle oil, as needed

Preparation

1 Roll out 1 pizza dough as thinly as possible, leaving 1-in. lip all around and place on a pizza peel sprinkled with cornmeal. 2 Cover with 1 tsp. olive oil, 1/4 tsp. garlic and a pinch of salt and pepper. 3 Evenly distribute 1/2 cup mushroom puree, 3 oz. fontina cheese, 1 portobello mushroom cap and 1+1/2 tsp. Parmesan cheese. Transfer pizza onto pizza stone.  4 Bake in preheated 500F oven until browned, about 6 to 7 minutes. 5 Sprinkle with 1+1/2 tsp. Parmesan cheese, black pepper to taste and drizzle with small amount of truffle oil. Slice and serve. Repeat with remaining dough.

About


NOTES : Portobello, Mushrooms, Mushroom Puree & Fontina Cheese Pizza
"Chefs like Todd English have taken gourmet pizza to another level.
Inspired by the legendary Pepe"s Pizzeria in New Haven, Conn., the pizza at his four Figs restaurants in Massachusetts and his newer ventures, Miramar in Westport, Conn., and Olives in Las Vegas, is free-form, cracker thin and crispy bottomed. It can be simple, consisting of freshly shucked clams and grated Parmesan or tomato, basil oil and shaved Parmesan... But there"s also pizza with potatoes, sauerkraut, kielbasa and mustard aioli. It"s so popular, says Brad Stevens, Figs corporate executive chef, that he can"t take it off the menu." -excerpt from "Pie in the Sky," by Laura Yee,