Fugazza

Submitted by evelynathens

"A different-tasting pizza. Simple and very tasty. Plus I love onions on anything!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 20mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 1 envelope dry yeast
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1⁄2 cup warm milk
• 1⁄2 cup water
• 2 1⁄2 - 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 large onion, thinly sliced
• 8 ounces mozzarella cheese, grated
• 1 - 1 1⁄2 teaspoon oregano (preferably Mediterranean)

directions

1. Sprinkle yeast with sugar over milk and water in a small bowl and proof until foamy, about 10-15 minutes.
2. Combine flour and salt in a large bowl, make a well in the center and add yeast mixture.
3. Blend flour into yeast mixture and knead about 15 minutes, until dough is smooth and elastic.
4. Oil large bowl.
5. Add dough, turning to coat.
6. Cover and let rise in warm, draft-free area until double in size.
7. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
8. Oil 15 inch pizza pan.
9. Roll dough out on lightly-floured surface to 13-14 inch round, ½ inch thick.
10. Fit dough into pan.
11. Spread with onion, leaving ½ inch border at edges.
12. Cover onion with cheese and sprinkle with oregano, crumbling oregano between fingers.
13. Bake until golden-brown, about 15-20 minutes.

Reviews

[love4culinary]

This is absolutely fabulous. It was very time consuming, but it went very smoothly, and the ending result was WELL worth the wait. I love the onion on the bottom level because the flavor really comesout into the dough (in my opinion lol) and the oregano really adds a lot of OOMPh! :-) I WILL be making this again. Thats for sure!! thanks evelyn!!!

 

[Moline D.]

I used dough from my local pizza shop and cooked on 500 for 12 minutes, on top of a silpat mat - turned out great!

 

[stormylee]

Wonderful, soft and fluffy! I did find myself sprinkling a bit of sea salt on my third (ahem) piece - I think I will give Roosie's idea of adding sun dried tomatoes a try the next time. Thanks for the recipe Ev!

 

[gailanng]

A 1000 times better than MY..........half-baked ideas. Made for Soups & Breads Recipe Tag.

 

[duonyte]

This was really nice. I made about half the recipe. I mixed up the dough in the bread machine, adding a splash of olive oil to it. I used fresh mozarella and queso quesadilla, as well as some sliced portabella mushroom. It's a recipe that allows you to use whatever you have sitting around in the pantry. I also have Greek oregano growing in my garden, and added both leaves and the lovely purple blossoms to the fugazza as it came out of the oven. I have a pizza dough recipe that I prefer, but this one will be a great alternative. The crust was very tender, from the milk.