3 Cheese Italian Pizza Recipe

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3 Cheese Italian Pizza Recipe

Colleen Shibley

Make your own pizza dough and creat these flavorful Italian Pizza and enjoy!

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Prep Time 20

Cook Time 30

Making Dough 26

Total Time 26 50

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Servings

Calories 495 kcal

Ingredients

Pizza Dough

4 cup flour
1 ½ cup water
2 ½ tsp salt (or 1 tbsp Kosher salt)
¾ tsp active dry yeast

Toppings

4 cup spinach fresh
3 tbsp olive oil
2 cup portobello mushrooms
2 tbsp butter
3 cloves garlic minced
fresh basil
2 tomatoes
1 cup ricotta cheese
¾ cup Parmesan cheese fresh
2 cup mozzarella cheese
Salt pepper, and garlic powder to taste

Instructions

Pizza Dough Directions (The day before)

Combine all ingredients in a mixer at low speed until well combined; about 2 minutes.
Cover the bowl and allow to rest for 20 minutes.
Then mix at medium speed for 5 to 6 minutes until smooth and silky.
Turn out onto a floured board and knead by hand for a few turns.
Cut into four 7-ounce pieces.
Cover and refrigerate overnight

Working with Dough (Next Day)

Remove from refrigerator for about 2 hours prior to using.
To make your pizza balls, shape each piece of dough into a ball.
Gently roll your dough into a ball, then stretch the top of the ball down and around the rest of the ball, until the outer layer wraps around the other side.
Pinch the two ends together to make a smooth ball with a tight outer “skin.”
Set your ball seam-side down where it can rest.
Dust your pizza balls with flour, and store them under a damp towel, in a proofing tray, or under plastic wrap.
This will prevent the outside of the ball from drying out creating a crust, and becoming difficult to work with.
The top of the pizza ball should be soft and silky.
Your pizza balls will need to rest for about an hour to become soft and elastic so that they can be easily stretched into a thin crust pizza.
Making Pizza
In a large pan place olive oil and fresh minced garlic, and cook on medium heat for 2-3 minutes, until you can start to smell the garlic.
Then add fresh spinach and cover.
Stir occasionally until the spinach is cooked down.
In another large pan place 2 tbsp of butter and washed Portobello mushrooms cook on med-high until mushrooms are soft.
Slice 2 large tomatoes into thin slices.
Chop up a few Basil leaves.
Sprinkle flour on a large cutting board and roll dough with a rolling pin until desired thickness and size.
Spray a pizza pan with cooking oil and place pizza dough on the pan.
Take the juice and oil from the spinach and spread them on the edges of the dough with a pastry brush.
Spread Ricotta cheese over the dough.
Grate fresh Parmesan cheese over the Ricotta cheese
Place mushrooms, spinach, and basil on top of cheeses, and then arrange the tomato slices on top.
Shake salt, pepper, and garlic powder over pizza to taste.
Sprinkle Mozzarella cheese over the pizza evenly.
Cook at 450 for approximately 25-30 minutes. Times vary depending on the oven so start checking on the pizza after 15-20 minutes.

Nutrition

Nutrition information has been calculated using an autogenerating online calculation and is intended for informational purposes. For accurate nutritional information, you should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used.

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