Sesame-Crusted Spicy Pizza
Tatiana Bautista · kingarthurbaking.com · Original
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DietVegetarian. Not vegan: heavy cream, low-moisture shredded mozzarella.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
87% hydration: wetter than 91% of the 1,480 doughs that parse, baked at 500°F, hotter than 80% of recipes that state an oven.
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes. Hydration counts the water in this dough's milk or beer (about 88% and 92% of their weight), as bakers do.
Flour
360g
Liquid, as water
314g
Hydration
87.3%
Salt
2.2%
Yeast
0.83%
Oil
14.4%
Sauce
794g
Cheese
170g
Dough weight
769g
Process
Bake temp
500°F / 260°C
Bake time
20 to 25 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
stone
Ingredients (10)
- flourKing Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour3 cup · 360g
- salttable salt1 1/2 tsp · 8g
- yeastinstant yeast1 tsp · 3g
- waterplus 3 tablespoons water1 cup · 270g
- oilgenerous 2 tablespoons olive oil27g
- oilolive oil2 tbsp · 25g
- sauce tomatoone 28-ounce can whole peeled tomatoes794g
- dairy doughheavy cream1/3 cup · 76g
- saltsalt and black peppern/a
- cheese mozzarellalow-moisture shredded mozzarella1 1/2 cup · 170g
Toppings (6)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheesesesame seeds3 tbsp · 27g
- over cheesearlic cloves
- over cheese1 medium yellow onion
- over cheese1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes1/2 tsp · 2.1g
- over cheesevodka3 tbsp · 43g
- post bakebasil leaves
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