Mortadella Pizza

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Dinner, Main Course American
By Kelly Djalali Serves: 2-4
Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cooking Time: 15 Minutes Total Time: 35 Minutes

Smoky cheese and meaty flavor. Hungarian Yellow Peppers add a little spice and a fresh crunch. The arugula for color and garlic oil for fresh garlic bite.

Ingredients

  • 1 Prepared Pizza Dough
  • 1 cup Low Moisture Mozzarella, shredded on a box grater
  • Garlic Olive Oil (4 cloves of grated garlic in 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil)
  • 4 oz. Sliced Smoked Gouda
  • Handful of Baby Arugula
  • 1 4-oz. Package of Sliced Mortadella
  • 1 Large Hungarian Yellow Wax Pepper, sliced into thick rings
  • Finely Grated Parmesan, to garnish
  • Fresh cracked Black Pepper, to garnish

Instructions

1

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

2

On a floured pizza peel, dust the dough with flour and create a crust around the perimeter of the dough and flatten down the center.

3

Stretch it out on the backs of your hands, left hand over right hand, until the dough is roughly 12-inches around.

4

Add more flour evenly on the peel and lay the dough on the peel.

5

First add a light layer of shredded mozzarella cheese.

6

Drizzle a little garlic olive oil over cheese.

7

Evenly place Smoked Gouda slices on pizza.

8

Scatter the baby arugula over the pizza.

9

Fold the mortadella slices into thirds, lengthwise and evenly layer on pizza.

10

Top with a little more shredded mozzarella.

11

Evenly place the yellow pepper slices on the pizza.

12

Bake for 15 minutes or until the crust is golden and the cheese is melted and bubbly.

13

Top baked pizza with a little more garlic oil, Parmesan and fresh cracked black pepper.