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Heirloom tomato and pesto pizza
Louise Pickford & Mary Cadogen · taste.com.au · 2015 · Original
other (asserted)
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%) — the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Flour
250g
Water
—
Hydration
—
Salt
—
Yeast
1.68%
Oil
—
Sauce
900g
Cheese
145g
Dough weight
254g
Process
Bake temp
482°F / 250°C
Bake time
10-12 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
stone
Ingredients (13)
- flourbread and pizza plain flour250g
- yeastinstant dried yeast1 tsp · 4.2g
- saltm salt—
- sugarm sugar—
- waterwater—
- oilm olive oil—
- sauce tomatoarlic clove—
- sauce tomato1/2 x 400g can diced tomatoes400g
- sugarPinch sugar—
- sauce tomatoheirloom or mixed tomatoes500g
- cheese mozzarellactn buffalo mozzarella125g
- flourm good-quality pesto—
- cheese otherparmesan20g
Toppings (4)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheesechopped fresh marjoram or oregano1 tsp · 0.5g
- over cheesePinch cayenne pepper
- over cheesecreme fraiche100g
- over cheeseHandful rocket leaves