Thin Pizza with Stracchino Cheese

Name: Thin Pizza with Stracchino Cheese
Yield: Serves 8–10
Ingredients: 12 g(½ oz) fresh yeast, crumbled, or 7 g(¼ oz) active dry yeast; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 170 ml(5½ fl oz/⅔ cup) milk; 250 g(9 oz) fresh stracchino cheese; 185 ml(6 fl oz/¾ cup) warm (comfortable to your fingers) water; ½ tablespoon olive oil; 300 g(10½ oz) bread flour; ½ teaspoon honey

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Apples for Jam

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2010

About

My friend Julia showed me this. This amount of dough will make you two pizza bases — you can freeze the unused half of dough once it has been punched down. Stracchino is a sour creamy cheese.

Ingredients

Dough

185 ml(6 fl oz/¾ cup) warm (comfortable to your fingers) water

Starter
Main course
Vegetarian

Method

For the dough, put the water, yeast, honey and oil in a large bowl with a fistful of the flour. Mix with electric beaters until smooth. Cover and leave for 30 minutes or so until it all froths up and looks foamy on the top. Add the rest of the flour and ½ teaspoon of salt. Mix well with your hands —