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Prep time
2 hours 30 minutes
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Cook time
30 minutes
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Serves
3
Author Notes
Sicilian style pizza, traditionally called Sfincione is a thick crust pizza topped with onions and breadcrumbs, tomatoes and a hard cheese. In this recipe, toppings include sun dried tomatoes, basil and mozzarella cheese. Traditional recipe has onions and bread crumbs as toppings. This recipe is a lip smacking variant.
—Rajat Dhameja
Ingredients
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3 cups
All purpose flour
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1 teaspoon
Salt
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1 teaspoon
Sugar
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5 teaspoons
Olive oil
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1 cup
San Marzano Tomatoes
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1/2 cup
Fresh Basil
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1 .5 cups
Fresh Mozzarella
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1 teaspoon
Nutritional Yeast
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1.5 cups
Warm water
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2
Crushed and minced garlic
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1/2 cup
Sun dried tomatoes.
Directions
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In a mixing bowl, mix flour, sugar, water, salt, yeast and two tea spoons olive oil. Knead mixture to a dough and set aside for 2 hours at room temperature
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Place a baking sheet in a medium baking pan. Brush 1 table spoon olive oil in the pan. Place dough and stretch to fill the pan.
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Brush mixture of olive oil and minced garlin
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Top with crushed San Marzano tomatoes (pizza sauce will also do). Top with fresh mozzarella, basil, sun dried tomatoes and olive oil. Sprinkle salt and a few dashes of EVOO (extra virgin olive oil)
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Preheat oven to 450° C and place pan ready to bake. Bake for 12-15 minutes until crust is golden brown.
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Remove from oven, let pizza cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan. Cut and serve.
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