Sicilian Pizza | Kitchen on the Cliff with Giovanna Bellia LaMarca

my name is jovanna and i welcome you all to my kitchen on the cliff [Music] today is pizza day everybody loves pizza but this is a little bit unusual this is sicilian pizza when our daughter was three years old we started taking her to the philharmonic concerts in central park in new york people came at six o'clock and they brought wonderful picnics and candles and flowers it was festive it was absolutely wonderful and what i usually brought were these pizzas the pieces that i'm going to make today so i have a number of fans they were the childhood friends of our daughter nicoletta who loved this pizza and now they asked me can you please make that again so i'm making sicilian pizza two kinds of sicilian pizza one with tomato and one with anchovies so the first thing we're going to do is to make the dough which is you know simple enough the dough is going to be made of six cups of all-purpose flour and you may remember from previous videos that we go into the flour with a heaping cup and then we take off the top that way we're all short of exactly one cup we're going to add one tablespoon saf instant yeast now that we've put in our yeast we're going to add half a cup of sugar to that we're going to add two cups of warm water once the dough forms a bowl you can take it out of the mixer and although you can continue mixing it with a mixer for another minute or so i enjoy doing it by hand now we're going to shape it into a ball we're going to put a few drops of olive oil and the reason for that is so that it doesn't form a crust we take a bowl and we cover it [Music] this is a dough that i made previously and this is risen this is the same as what we just made it's of course larger because it has risen so we are going to coat the bottoms and sides of these two pans with olive oil and that will have two purposes one is the pizza will not stick to the bottom but more importantly the oil is going to kind of fry the bottom of the crust and it'll be crunchy and it'll be delicious now i'm going to divide this dough in half we've divided it in two i'm now going to take half of it with my bench scraper and i'm going to put it right in the middle of my pan and now i'm just stretching it see how silken this is between stretchings you should let it rest so now you see it's very good to do two at a time instead of one at a time because you go from one to the other right now when i go back to this one this has already rested a little bit and it makes it easier to stretch and here we are now these two crusts are going to continue to rise while i prepare the condiments the toppings for our pizzas are going to be tomato onions lots of onions and peas go for tiny and tender small peas so we need salt we need olive oil and we need anchovies we want lots of onions so this is not something you skimp on you will see that the onions will be the star of the show in this particular dish so i'm going to take this to the sink to wash these this is about a quarter of a cup more or less is fine i'm slicing the onion the way your grandmother would we're going to add about a tablespoon full of salt and about a teaspoon full of oregano that's why you need so many onions because they cook down a lot so what we're going to do now is remove most of it this will go on top of the pizza and this will go into the sauce all right we're going to add these wonderful tomatoes and we're going to add about one quarter of a cup of water now we're going to raise the heat a little bit the condiments that we're going to add to the sauce are a tablespoon full of sugar because tomatoes are acidic and they need to be sweetened and then we're going to add about half a tablespoon of salt we just added a chiffonade of basil leaves so now i'm going to let it cook a little bit so that the tomatoes begin to disintegrate and then i'm going to use my potato masher which is one of my favorite tools not just for mashing potatoes but for mashing soups for mashing anything that's cooked and it doesn't cook very long it doesn't have any meat remember don't think that italian sauces have to cook for an hour and a half they don't lower the heat and let it simmer very very slowly this should cook about 15 minutes no more than that the sauce is a little bit thin i'm going to add tomato paste so we're going to cook it another 10 minutes delicious the sauce is ready to use so we are going to let it rest and we're going to start putting the pizzas together now i'm going to make some holes in the surface of the dough so that the various condiments go right in we're going to start with the anchovy pizza so we have put half of the onions on this one and reserved the other half for the second pizza these are filets of anchovy i'm making a crisscross pattern which is very pretty we just finished making the anchovy pizza and we're now doing the second one we've spread the tomato and now we're adding the onion the peas are just defrosted they're not cooked because the whole point of these peas is that they're so tender they don't really need much cooking and they will cook in the oven i think this is the real pizza margherita because it's definitely red white and green we're adding not much you know but a definite amount of olive oil if this seems like a lot it isn't lastly i'm going to add just a tiny sprinkle of salt now i'm not going to add salt to this one because the anchovy is already salted okay this is done so we're now going to put it in the oven at 400 degrees for 20 minutes at the end of 20 minutes you look at it the pizzas are done these are the baking trays you don't serve in a baking tray before cutting anything like this please transfer it to a cutting board or to a tray enjoy your pizza gracia i'm going to eat it the traditional way not for the knife and fork it's very portable we used to bring it to concerts in central park when we were younger [Music] these are the pizzas we made today these are not thin these are thick pizzas they're chewy they are luscious they are full flavor this is with tomato onions and peas this is onions and anchovies um i used to make this and i would be the only one who ate it and i found that as i served it people came to it and many many people who would never have dreamt of eating something like this actually like it please try to make these offer them to your friends like the video if you like it like it thank you for watching see you at the next time ciao for now arrivederci a presto you

Channel: Kitchen on the Cliff with Giovanna

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Id: zZUDTGkt_98

Length: 9min 19sec (559 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 24 2020