Yeast Pizza With Ham And Pancetta In The Oven. Step-by-step Recipe With Photo

Oven yeast pizza with ham and pancetta is a delicious homemade pastry that is loved and prepared all over the world. Pancetta (a type of bacon) - fatty pork belly dried with salt and herbs with layers of bacon and meat. This spicy addition gives the finished pizza a unique flavor.

A simple pizza dough is made with three ingredients - water, yeast and flour. To make it elastic, add a little high-quality olive oil, which is desirable, but not necessary. The dough can be prepared in a larger volume by proportionally increasing the amount of ingredients indicated in the recipe. It can be stored in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours, and an hour before cooking, take it out of the refrigerator, wrinkle it, and leave it in a warm place so that it comes up again at room temperature.

• Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Servings: 2

Ingredients for ham and pancetta yeast pizza

Pizza dough:

• 7 g dry yeast;
• 185 ml of water;
• 300 g wheat flour;
• 3 g salt;
• 15 ml of olive oil.

Pizza filling:

• 100 g ham;
• 40 g pancetta;
• 50 g of Mozzarella cheese;
• 50 g of hard cheese;
• 70 g cherry tomatoes;
• 40 g leeks;
• onion head;
• 30 g tomato paste;
• 15 ml olive oil;
• thyme, basil, pepper.

How to cook yeast pizza with ham and pancetta in the oven

Pour wheat flour on the working surface, add fine table salt without additives and dry yeast. We make a depression in the center and slowly pour into it pure water heated to 35 degrees Celsius and extra virgin olive oil. Mix the ingredients with our hands, then knead the dough until it stops sticking to the surface.

Lubricate the bowl with olive oil (so that the dough does not stick), put the bun in the bowl, cover with a clean, damp cloth and put it in a warm, secluded place without drafts.

Leave the bowl warm for 45-50 minutes, during which time the dough will double in volume.

Knead the dough, roll out a round cake with a rolling pin on a board sprinkled with wheat flour to a thickness of about half a centimeter. We wind the cake on a rolling pin, transfer to a dry baking sheet.

We make a small side around the circle of the cake with our fingers so that the juice from the filling does not flow onto the baking sheet. Lubricate the dough with tomato paste.

Fry finely chopped onion in olive oil, thyme and salt. Cut the ham into thin slices and the pancetta into small pieces.

Put the fried onion, ham and pancetta on the tortilla.

Cut the Mozzarella cheese into cubes or tear it by hand, spread it evenly over the cake. Cut the cherry tomatoes into slices, also spread over the whole pizza.

Add finely chopped leeks, basil and hard cheese grated on a coarse grater (Parmesan cheese is the best).

Pour olive oil over the pizza and sprinkle with thyme. We heat the oven to a temperature of 250 degrees Celsius.

We send the yeast pizza with ham and pancetta to a hot oven for 12-15 minutes, then take it out and immediately remove it from the baking sheet onto a dry board.

Serve hot yeast pizza with ham and pancetta to the table. Bon Appetit!