Mini Montanara Pizza

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Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 10

Resting Time: 2

Total Time: 27

Servings:

Calories: 545kcal

Ingredients

Pizza Sauce

Tomato paste
Olive oil
Dried oregano
Italian seasoning
Salt
Pepper
Garlic powder

Pizza Dough

2 cup 250 g flour
1 cup 240 mL water
1 ½ tsp yeast
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking powder

Mini Montanara Pizza

1 cup homemade pizza sauce or store-bought pizza sauce
400 g pizza dough
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
½ cup parmesan cheese
Fresh basil leaves

Instructions

Mix all the pizza sauce ingredients in a bowl until it’s homogeneous then set aside.
To make pizza dough, mix the flour, salt and yeast then add water and knead them well. Rest the dough for about 2 hours in an oiled and covered bowl.
After 2 hours, dust the bench which you will roll out the dough with flour. Divide the dough in half. Then divide each piece into five small pieces. Roll the small pieces into the balls.
Press the balls with your hands and expand it by gently pulling on the edges and continue to rotate it. You will get 3 mm thick discs.
Deep fry the discs in a medium pot with vegetable oil at 180°C/355°F, until each side turns golden. When it is fried, it will turn into low dome-shaped discs. Place these discs on a baking tray lined with waxed paper. Press in the middle to get little dents.
Put 1 tablespoon of pizza sauce in the dent of each disk.
Scatter the mozzarella cheese on pizza sauce. Place the fresh basil leaves on mozzarella cheeses. Sprinkle the parmesan cheese on top.
Bake until the cheeses completely melted for about 10 minutes at 190°C/375°F preheated oven.
After the mini montanara pizzas are baked, remove the baking tray from the oven, drizzle the olive oil on top.
Serve slightly warm.

Nutrition

Originally from the hills of pizza paradise in Naples, the Montanara Pizza is a delicious fried pizza dough. The toppings on a montanara pizza are slathered on after the pizza has been fried, so the taste remains crisp even though the pizza has been cooked to a golden brown. If you take a bite of this, the different textures on your taste buds may spontaneously combust.

Tips, Notes & Substitutes:

The amount of oil used for deep frying is one of the key ingredients in this recipe.
Use a kitchen thermometer to check the temperature and make sure it doesn’t get above 180 degrees. Otherwise it will turn brown very quickly.
You don’t want the color to change too much from golden.
The tiny montanaras shouldn’t be exposed to excessive oil absorption. Make sure to wipe off extra oil with a paper towel after taking it from the deep fryer.
It’s crucial to know when to remove it from the oven. The intensity and time varies depending on the oven. You’ll need to periodically check it as you bake it. Prior to the cheeses changing color and turning crispy, you must remove them from the oven as soon as they are totally melted.

Homemade Mini Montanara Pizza