Squash Blossom Pizza in a Skillet

Name: Squash Blossom Pizza in a Skillet
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 1 leave Fresh basil as garnish (to taste); 2 servings freshly ground black pepper (to taste); 59 milliliters crème fraîche (at room temperature); 2 servings kosher salt (to taste); 57 grams low moisture mozzarella (chilled then coarsely grated); 2 servings extra-virgin olive oil (to taste); 227 grams pizza dough (homemade or store bought)

Squash Blossom Pizzan in a Skillet might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 17g of protein, 29g of fat, and a total of 544 calories. This recipe serves 2. This recipe is typical of Mediterranean cuisine. A mixture of basil leaves as garnish, pizza dough, crème fraîche, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. To use up the creme fraiche you could follow this main course with the Peach And Creme Fraiche Pie as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 40 minutes.

Instructions

Let the dough come to room temperature covered on the counter about an hour or more beforehand. The extra time sitting at room temperature will increase the fermentation giving the dough that pizza parlor tang.

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Dough

Place oven rack in top position.

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Oven

Heat oven to 500 degrees F (or as high as it goes).When ready to make the pizza, brush bottom and sides of a cold 10 to 12 inch cast iron skillet with a little olive oil. Use your fingertips to press the dough onto the bottom of the entire skillet. Set aside to rest about 5 minutes. If the dough retracts press it out again and let it rest again. Repeat until it no longer retracts during resting.

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Olive Oil

Dough

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Frying Pan

Oven

Brush more olive oil in a ½-inch border all around the edges of dough. Lightly salt dough all over. Dollop crème fraîche into the center and use the back of the spoon to spread evenly, leaving the ½-inch border uncovered.

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Creme Fraiche

Olive Oil

Spread

Dough

Salt

Spread grated mozzarella over the crème fraîche, still leaving the ½-inch border uncovered.Open each slit squash blossom, spreading them flat.

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Creme Fraiche

Mozzarella

Spread

Squash

Lay 5 blossoms, stem end towards center, in a ring around the edge of pizza. Repeat with another layer of 4 blossoms, forming a slightly smaller ring about 1-inch in from the first. Use the last 3 blossoms in the same manner to form the final ring. Set the dough-lined skillet over medium-high heat until the bottom of dough begins to brown, about 6 minutes. It need not be cooked all the way through.

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Dough

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Frying Pan

Transfer skillet to heated oven and bake until crust is golden brown and fully cooked, about 12 to 15 minutes– depending on oven temperature. Watch closely.

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Crust

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Oven

Frying Pan

Remove skillet from the oven and place it on a rack to cool, about 5 minutes. Carefully remove pizza from pan using tongs and an oven mitt. Give it a good grind of black pepper and a drizzle of very good extra-virgin olive oil.

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Black Pepper