Pizza con Patate e Rucola

Name: Pizza con Patate e Rucola (Pizza with Potato and Rocket)
Yield: Up to 8 people
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: salt and pepper; 1 buffalo mozzarella, diced; 1 sprig rosemary; 1 recipe Bread Dough; good olive oil; a handful Salad of Rocket per pizza; 2 large potatoes, peeled

Pizza with Potato and Rocket

Preparation info

Up to
8
people

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Alastair Little's Italian Kitchen

By Alastair Little

Published 1996

About

Potato pizza has been an obsession of mine since 1978 when I first tasted it in Rome near Termini station. It sounds heavy, and my first attempts were just that, but they steadily improved over the years. Then along came Ruocco and this sensational dish.

Ingredients

1 recipe Bread Dough
a handful Salad of Rocket per pizza
2

Europe
Italy
Rome
Mediterranean
Bread
Pizza

Method

Preheat the oven to its maximum with the baking trays inside.

Using a mandolin or food processor slicer blade, cut the potatoes into as thin slices as possible then put into a bowl of cold water to de-starch.

Roll out two pizza bases as in the previous recipes. Take a s