Thin Curst Chard Leek Pizza
This makes two pizzas (or one really big one if you have a massive oven and tray). Serves 4 people.
Equipment
- A big sharp knife
- Cutting board
- 2 oven trays
- A large bowl
- A sauté pan
- A colander
Ingredients
Pizza Crust
- 3 cups flour
- 1/8 tsp yeast
- 1.5 tsp salt
- 1.25 cups water
Toppings
- 2 leeks
- 1 bunch chard (swiss or otherwise)
- 2 ears corn
- 3/4 cup goat cheese
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
- Pinch of seasoning (rosemary, or oregano, or Italian)
- Corn meal to coat tray
- 1.5 tbsp of olive oil (and some more to coat trays)
- 1 tbsp of butter
Instructions
Pizza Crust
24 hours ahead of time
- Stir together salt, yeast, and flour in a bowl (only mixing in the same direction)
- Add water
- Cover and let sit
Pizza time
- Heat oven to 500°F
- Coat each tray with olive oil and corn meal
- Divide crust in half, placing onto trays
- Coat the crust with flour
- Spread evenly across tray until you can get it to stretch no further
- With a fork, poke ~39.2 times on each crust
Toppings
- Cut leeks into small crescents, then chop into 1/2 inch slices
- Rinse leeks a lot, then drain on towel
- Melt butter with olive oil in pan at medium heat
- Put leeks into pan, stirring occasionally
- Add salt, pepper, and seasoning to taste
- Remove stems from chard
- For every 4 chard leaves, roll together, then chop into 1/2 inch slices
- When leeks are just starting to brown, add the chard to the pan
- Stir for 2-4 minutes, until chard is wilted
- Cut corn off the cob
- Add corn to pan
- Remove from heat
- Stir
- Taste for seasonings
Combine!
- Add toppings to pizza crust
- Put into oven for 8 minutes
- Eat! (but let it cool for a minute or two)
* Recipe by Carli Wulff, who is well mannered :-)x