Pizza with truffle cream and ham
- Difficulty: Difficult
- Prep time: 20 min
- Cook time: 30 min
- Serving: 6
- Cost: Very high
- Note about 12 and a half hours of leavening
PRESENTATION
The pizza with truffle cream and ham is a gourmet recipe that combines the goodness of slowly leavened dough with the bold taste of truffle. The truffle cream, velvety and aromatic, meets the delicacy of roasted ham and the freshness of buffalo mozzarella bites, for an elegant and irresistible result.
To complete this homemade pizza, there are crispy Grana Padano PDO chips and fresh basil, adding flavor, color, and a unique contrast of textures. Perfect for a special dinner or to impress your guests, this truffle pizza is ideal for baking in your home oven. Follow our step-by-step recipe to achieve a gourmet pizza fragrant and full of flavor. With few selected ingredients and a long leavening, you will bring to the table a refined pizza.
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INGREDIENTS
- For the dough (for 6 pizzas)
- Manitoba flour 8 cups (1 kg)
- Water 3 cups (700 g)
- Fresh brewer's yeast ½ tsp (3 g)
- Fine salt 5 tsp (25 g)
- Sugar 2 tsp (8 g)
- Extra virgin olive oil 2 ¼ tbsp (30 g)
- Truffle cream 2.1 cups (500 g)
- Roast cooked ham 1.1 lbs (500 g)
- Mozzarella di bufala cheese 14.1 oz (400 g) - (bocconcini in buffalo cream)
- Basil 2 ½ cups (100 g)
- Extra virgin olive oil 4 tbsp (50 g)
- Black pepper ½ tsp (2 g)
- For the crispy Grana chips
- Grana Padano PDO cheese 8.5 oz (340 g)
How to prepare Pizza with truffle cream and ham
To prepare the pizza with truffle cream and ham, start with the dough. In a large bowl, combine fresh yeast with flour 1. Gradually pour in the water 2, and at this point incorporate the salt 3.
Also add extra virgin olive oil 4 and sugar, then mix initially with a spoon 5, then start kneading with your hands 6.
Initially, the dough will be rustic and sticky 7, but after working it on the worktop, it will become increasingly smooth and homogeneous 8. As soon as the dough is smooth, let it rest under a bowl or a cloth for about 30 minutes 9.
After this time, use a dough scraper to divide the dough into 6 pieces of about 9 oz 10. Let the dough balls rise at a temperature between 65°F and 75°F for 8/12 hours in a dough container 11. In the meantime, you can prepare the Grana Padano chips. Place parchment paper in a pan and pour the Grana in the center 12.
Let cook for a few minutes without ever touching the chip 13, when bubbles appear on the surface, the chip will be ready 14, set it aside to harden. With these quantities, you will get about 6 chips. After the rising time, the dough balls will have doubled 15.
Gently take each piece of dough and spread it with the help of a dusting of flour 16. On a pizza peel, spread the dough disc and top it with truffle cream 17 and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil 18.
Bake the pizza in a preheated oven at 480°F (or the highest available temperature) for about 5-7 minutes in static mode 19. Remove from the oven and add the slices of ham 20 and buffalo milk mozzarella balls 21.
Finally, add fresh basil and Grana chips broken by hand 22, a final drizzle of extra virgin olive oil 23, a sprinkle of black pepper, and your pizza with truffle cream and ham is ready 34!