The Best White Clam Pizza Recipe | New Haven-Style
Entertaining the RV Life · entertainingthervlife.com · 2024 · Original
New Haveninferred from the title
DietNot vegetarian: dozen fresh littleneck clams, reserved clam juice, crispy bacon.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
New Haven style, one of 29 in the lab. Its dough did not parse to grams, so it sits out the dough comparisons.
New Haven (New Haven, CT): coal-fired, well-done / leoparded, white clam as signature; tomato-oregano-grated-hard-cheese canon
Tradition: 60 to 68% hydration · 700 to 900°F bake
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Flour
125g
Water
158g
Hydration
n/a
Salt
3.6%
Yeast
5.68%
Oil
0%
Sauce
n/a
Cheese
57g
Dough weight
367g
Hydration above 95% is almost certainly a cups-to-grams parse error, so this dough sits out the charts.
Process
Bake temp
n/a
Bake time
12 to 14 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
stone
Ingredients (8)
- flour1-3/4 to 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour1 cup · 125g
- yeast1 packet Rapid Rise Yeast7.1g
- sugar1-1/2 teaspoons sugar1 tsp · 4.2g
- saltsalt3/4 tsp · 4.5g
- watervery warm water2/3 cup · 158g
- oilextra virvin olive oil1 tbsp · 13.6g
- oilextra virgin olive oil1/4 cup · 54.5g
- cheese othergrated Pecorino Romano cheese.1/2 cup · 56.5g
Toppings (8)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheese1 dozen fresh littleneck clams )184g
- over cheesereserved clam juice2 tbsp · 25g
- over cheese4 slices of crispy bacon
- over cheese4 fresh garlic cloves
- over cheesefresh oregano1 tbsp · 1.5g
- over cheeseRed pepper flakes
- over cheeseLemon zest
- over cheeseFresh parsley
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