For the first in our new 'How to...' series, the boys from Soho pizzeria Pizza Pilgrims show us how to make a Neapolitan pizza without using an oven...
We all love pizza, but is it easy to make one at home without a special oven? Pizza Pilgrims, a pizzeria run by brothers which specialises in Napoli-inspired street food, has a method in its new book – Pizza Pilgrims: Recipes from the Backstreets of Italy – for making a Neapolitan pizza using just a frying pan. Here’s the recipe to try at home.
This method is the best way to make Neapolitan pizza at home, unless of course, you happen to have a Neapolitan stone oven in your kitchen. The frying pan and grill combo replicates the intense heat you need to cook the pizza quickly – and ensure that the dough does not dry out and become biscuit-y.
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There are three stages to this recipe – making and proving the dough, making the pizza base and then making the pizza itself in a frying pan. This recipe is for a traditional Margherita, but you can of course add other toppings once it is in the frying pan – just remember that less is more! So here goes…
1. Tip the flour onto your work service and make a well in the centre. Dissolve your yeast in the water and pour into the middle of the well a little at a time whilst using your hands to bring the walls of the flour in so that the water begins to thicken. Once you’ve reached the consistency of custard, add the salt and bring in the rest of the flour until it comes together as a dough. Knead for 10–15 minutes.
2. Cover and leave to rest for 10 minutes before kneading again quickly for 10 seconds (this helps to develop the flavour and the gluten).
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3. Divide the dough into 200g balls and leave to rest overnight or for at least 8 hours (24 hours is optimal, 48 hours maximum) in a sealed container or a deep baking dish sprinkled with flour and covered in cling film. Remember to leave space for each of your dough balls because, as the gluten relaxes, they will spread out to take up twice the diameter that they do initially.
4. After proving, the dough balls are ready to use straight away. We would recommend always making this amount of dough, even if you are only making pizza for a few people. There is a good chance you might want a second (or third, or fourth etc.) and pizza dough is actually fine to freeze once it has proved. Just defrost it in the fridge next time you want pizza – it’s easier and quicker than ordering a takeaway!
1. Scrape a dough ball out of its container using a spatula and as much flour as you need to ensure it doesn’t stick. The rounder the dough ball comes out, the rounder the final pizza base.
Frying Pan Pizza
2. Put the dough ball onto a well-floured surface (honestly, if you are going to get serious about pizza making, get used to having flour play a large part in your life).
3. Using your fingertips, press out the dough ball firmly, starting at the centre and working out to the edge. Ensure you leave a centimetre around the rim of the pizza untouched.
5. Using the palm of your hand, do one firm push in the centre of the dough ball to ensure the thickness of the base is consistent (not counting the raised edges).
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6. Take the newly flattened dough ball on the back of your hands, ensuring the weight is on your knuckles and that your fingertips and nails are not going to poke a hole in the dough.
7. Using the back of your hands, stretch the dough out as far as you can without tearing it (now there’s a challenge). Turn the dough through 90 degrees and repeat this stretching. Do this a few times.
8. You should now have a disc of dough around 10 inches in diameter, consistently thin but with a slightly thicker rim. We are ready to cook.
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150g fior di latte cheese (cow’s milk mozzarella), torn into pieces no bigger than a 50 pence coin Extra virgin olive oil
1. Take the dough balls and press them out flat to make four 10 inch pizza bases using the tips of your fingers (see how to make a pizza base on page 83).
2. To make the tomato sauce, first crush the tomatoes by hand. This stops the seeds being whizzed up by the blender, which makes the sauce bitter. Add a pinch of salt, then blitz with a hand blender until you have a tomato sauce with a slightly rough texture.
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4. Lay a pizza base flat in a dry frying pan (preferably non-stick) that has been on a high heat and is screaming hot.
5. Spread a thin layer of sauce with a ladle across the base, leaving a couple of centimetres round the edge for the crust. Add a pinch of Parmesan, basil leaves and a quarter of the mozzarella, in that order. Drizzle with olive oil.
6. Once the base of the pizza has browned (about 1–2 minutes), take the frying pan and place it on the highest shelf, under the grill.
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7. Once the crust has taken on some colour (again about 1–2 minutes), the pizza is ready to go. Eat it fast (contrary to popular belief, pizza is not better cold the morning after!).
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