Get the Hot Potato Sicilian Pizza Recipe
This pizza can be made several ways. My favorite is a Sicilian.
Potatoes are amazing on pizza. The combination of Applewood smoked bacon, buttermilk Ranch, Calabrian & piquante peppers bursts with flavors. I know Ranch is like pineapple — it can be a sacrilegious ingredient to some operators — but if it sells, it sells. I may be a traditionalist, but when it comes to certain pizzas I’m always willing to be adventurous. Maybe that’s the California approach in cooking. It could be anything or everything as long as it tastes good, using quality ingredients. By the way, this pizza is delicious.
Tony's Trending Recipe: Hot Potato Sicilian Pizza
Author: Pizza Today
Recipe type: pizza
Ingredients
- 1 Sicilian pan 12 x 18
- 1 32-36 ounce dough ball
- 12 slices whole milk or dry mozzarella (1-ounce slices)
- 4 ounces thinly sliced red and white potatoes (Soaked in water for several hours before use to release the starch for better cooking)
- 4 ounces chopped Applewood smoked bacon, partially cooked/rendered
- 4 ounces sliced sweet piquante peppers
- 2 ounces chopped green onions
- 4 ounces buttermilk Ranch
- Pinch or grated Romano
- Pinch of dry oregano
- Garlic, extra virgin olive oil drizzle
- Salt & pepper
- Olive oil
Instructions
- Push your Sicilian in a lightly coated Sicilian pan.
- Allow dough to rise for 1 and ½ hours at room temperature. Carefully make sure your dough is pushed to the corners of the pan.
- Par-bake at 525-550 F.
- Take the pizza out of the oven, then carefully add a generous amount of olive oil into the bottom of the pizza, on the inside of the pan.
- Add sliced mozzarella, leaving a ¼-inch boarder.
- Add potatoes and bacon, then place the pizza back into the oven until golden brown.
- Remove pizza from of the oven and cut into desired slices.
- Finish with both peppers, green onions, oregano, Romano, salt, pepper, and zig-zag with Ranch. Serve and enjoy.
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