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Pizza with fig & lamb’s lettuce
Margherita, Napoli or salami – almost everyone has their favourite pizza, but it’s still fun to try something different. How about a summery pizza with figs and lamb’s lettuce, for example?
For the dough (approx. 8-12 pizzas):
1kg Flour
500ml Warm water
2 Cube of yeast
1 tbsp. Salt
1 pinch of Sugar
For the tomato base:
800g Tinned tomato pieces
1–2 Garlic cloves
2 tbsp. Tomato purée
1 tsp. Oregano
1 pinch of Sugar
Salt
Pepper
For the topping:
4–6 Figs
125g Lamb’s lettuce
2 Mozzarella balls
Firstly, prepare the dough:
- Place the flour, salt and sugar in a bowl.
- Dissolve the yeast cubes in the warm water.
- Add the yeast and water mixture to the flour.
- Knead the mixture until a dough forms.
- Leave the dough to rise in a warm place for 30 minutes.
Prepare the tomato base:
- Finely chop the garlic and fry in oil.
- Add the tomato pieces and tomato purée.
- Season with oregano, sugar, salt and pepper.
- Simmer over a medium heat for about 30 minutes. Stir occasionally and add water if necessary if it becomes too dry.
For the topping:
- Preheat the oven to 250 degrees top/bottom heat.
- Dust the work surface with flour.
- Roll out the dough to the desired size.
- Spread the tomato base generously over the dough.
- Slice the mozzarella and cut the figs into little boat shapes.
- Top the pizza with mozzarella and figs.
- Place the pizza in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
- Place the lamb’s lettuce on the finished pizza.
- Buon appetito!
