Radicchio Pizza With Gremolata

- Total Time
- 45 minutes
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Ingredients
- 32ounces pizza dough in 4 equal portions (see recipe)
- 1bunch parsley, roughly chopped
- 2cloves garlic, minced
- Zest of 2 lemons
- Zest of 2 oranges
- Zest of 2 grapefruit
- 2tablespoons olive oil, plus more for drizzling
- Salt
- fresh ground pepper
- Flour, for dusting
- 2heads radicchio, cored and outer leaves discarded, cut into ¼-inch strips
- 8ounces mozzarella
- 2ounces grated Parmesan or aged pecorino
Preparation
- Step 1
Remove dough from refrigerator 90 minutes before baking. An hour before baking, heat oven with a baking stone set on its floor to its highest temperature. If it has a convection fan, turn it on.
- Step 2
Mix the parsley, garlic, citrus zests and 2 tablespoons of the oil. Add salt and fresh ground pepper until the flavor is strong and sharp. Let the gremolata sit for at least 30 minutes, or up to two hours.
- Step 3
On a floured surface, pull one ball of dough into a disk with your fingers, then press down and fan out your hands until the dough is about 12 inches across, about ⅛-inch thick in the center and ¼-inch thick around the edge.
- Step 4
Gently drag dough onto a floured pizza peel, preferably metal. Working efficiently so the dough does not stick to the peel, scatter with ¼ of the grated cheese, ¼ of the mozzarella and, last, ¼ of the radicchio — it will look like too much, but it will cook down. Sprinkle with olive oil and a pinch of salt. Quickly open the oven and slide pizza onto stone. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes, until crust is puffy and radicchio is wilted and charred. Meanwhile, prepare next pizza and repeat with remaining dough and toppings. Let each pizza rest for one minute before spooning ¼ of the gremolata over it and slicing.
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Comments
This pizza is unusually fresh tasting for a winter vegetable recipe. It's sort of bitter-upon-bitter, which worked for me but may not be part of our weekly rotation (and did not work for our 5 year old).
I tweaked this a fair amount - not because I thought I could do it better, but to work with what I had - but I preserved the essence of the recipe (crust topped with cheese, then radicchio and drizzled with citrusy gremolata), and it was absolutely delicious. I am so looking forward to making this again…
This was so yummy! I added some chopped kale rapini to the radicchio because it was in the crisper. We are major garlic people, so will use about 8 cloves next time. Thanks for the inspiration!
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