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Max's homemade tray-baked pizza alla diavola

A perfect pick-me-up pizza.
A perfect pick-me-up pizza.

Ingredients

Serves: 4

For the dough

  • 1kg 00 flour
  • 10g fresh yeast/ 5g dry yeast
  • 500 ml water
  • 50 ml EVO
  • 20g fine sea salt

For the topping

  • 500g peeled plum tomatoes
  • Salt, pepper, origano as per taste
  • 200g diced spicy ventricina salame
  • 200g julienne cut mozzarella
  • 50g n'duja salame

Method

  1. Pour the flour, the yeast and 100ml of water into the dough machine; start the machine at low speed for 1 minute then add the rest of the water little by little.
  2. Let spin it for 4/5 minutes at low speed and then turn the speed at medium for other 4/5 minutes.
  3. Add the salt and spin for 1 minute, then pour Extra Virgin Olive Oil little by little until it's all absorbed by the dough at medium speed.
  4. Turn it off and take the dough out of the machine.
  5. Work the dough with your hands until you have a nice round shape.
  6. Cut in two halves and put them in 2 bowls, cover with cling film. Let the dough proof for 3 hours, in a warm & dry place, until doubled in size.
  7. In the meantime, put the tomato in a bowl with salt, pepper, oregano and then blend all together. Let it rest in the fridge until the dough is ready.
  8. Switch on the oven at maximum temperature static.
  9. Take the dough out of the bowl and place it on an oven tray (35x30cm) on a sheet of baking paper.
  10. Stretch gently the dough evenly, until you cover all the tray. Cover the tray with cling film for half an hour.
  11. After that you can start seasoning with the tomato sauce and sprinkle the spicy ventricina salame on top.
  12. Put in the oven for 20/25 minutes.
  13. Take out from the oven, put the mozzarella and the n'duja , put back in the oven until the mozzarella is melted.
  14. Your pizza is now ready, buon appetito!