Pizza “Capri” with ham and eggplant We all know that the name “Caprese” comes from the island of Capri . But not everyone knows that this delicious three-color salad was born thanks to the numerous dinners of the last century in the Quisisana hotel restaurant of the Italian futurists of the 20s, who did not want to eat pasta and preferred vegetarian cuisine. But “caprese” owes its popularity to the appetite of the Egyptian king in exile Farouk I , who lived on Capri in the 50s and often demanded “something light” as a snack, preferring mozzarella with tomatoes and basil .
So, you ask, are “Caprese” and “Capri” the same thing? No, nothing like that! If you ask for a salad called “Capri” , then they will bring you “caprese” , but with the addition of dry-cured ham . But in the Capri pizza, tomatoes were completely replaced with eggplants , but this made it even tastier!
CAPRI PIZZA RECIPE
Pizza recipe with mushrooms, cheese and ham on a thin base
Depending on preference, the pizza base can be thin or fluffy dough. In many ways, the taste of this dish depends not only on the filling, but also on the prepared crust.
Thin-crust ham and mushroom pizza - see recipe below - requires about half an hour to mix the dough and prepare the contents, plus another 20 minutes to bake.
Start by preparing the cake, for which you will need the following components:
- flour – 200 g;
- dry baker's yeast – 1 tsp;
- sugar – 10 g;
- olive oil – 10 ml;
- water (warm) – 2/3 cup;
- salt on the tip of a knife.
The dough is very simple to prepare and does not require much time. First, combine all the dry ingredients, then add water, oil and knead. Let it stand for a while in a warm place, after covering the container with it with a cloth.
During this time, you can prepare the contents for pizza with ham, mushrooms and hard cheese. This recipe requires the following ingredients:
- fresh champignons – 300 g;
- olive oil – 10 ml;
- 1 PC. Luke;
- ham (pork) – 100 g;
- tomatoes – 2 pcs.;
- hard cheese – 100 g;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- mozzarella – 80 g;
- tomato sauce – 2-3 tbsp. l.;
- seasoning "Herbs of Italy";
- pepper, salt - a pinch.
Peel the champignons for this homemade pizza with pork ham and fresh mushrooms and chop into thin pieces. Fry them in olive oil until golden brown. At the end of frying, add finely chopped onion and garlic, pepper, salt and seasoning.
The dough, which has already risen, needs to be kneaded a little. It should acquire a consistency that does not stick to your hands. Make a base with sides out of it, brush with sauce and lay out mushrooms with fried vegetables. Place slices of ham on the champignons, followed by peeled tomatoes, cut into half rings. Cover the whole thing with mozzarella cubes and grated cheese.
Then put the pizza in the oven for 30 minutes. It is prepared at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Look how delicious homemade pizza with mushrooms and ham looks in the photo.
Pizza with ham, cheese and tomatoes - recipe
We start preparing pizza by kneading the dough. The pizza dough in our case will be yeast. I am used to working with wet yeast, and I recommend it to you, since it is much better suited than dry yeast. Wet yeast is especially good for making whites, donuts and buns.
So, you need to pour water into the bowl. Add yeast crumbled by hand. Add sugar for better fermentation. Stir everything. After 10 minutes, after the yeast wakes up from hibernation, you can add salt and vegetable oil. Mix everything again with a fork.
Add flour sifted through a sieve in small portions. Don't forget to stir. The yeast dough should be thick and flexible. Add the last portion of flour and knead it with your hands. Cover the bowl with the dough with a towel and set it in a warm place. Place the dough in an even layer on a greased pan.
Grease the dough with ketchup, tomato sauce or adjika.
Cut the ham into thin slices. Place it on the pizza base.
Cut the cherry tomatoes in half and place on the pizza.
Top the pizza with chopped olives.
Grate the cheese on a medium or fine grater and sprinkle it over the pizza.
Pizza is baked at 170C for 20-25 minutes. This is how my pizza turned out with ham, cheese and tomatoes . Enjoy your meal.
How to make fluffy pizza with mushrooms, ham and mozzarella
For the fluffy base of this pizza, mix the dry ingredients: flour (2 tbsp.), sugar (25 g), salt (10 g), a packet of yeast (dry). Next, pour 250 ml of water and 40 ml of olive oil into the mixture. Knead the dough and let it rise in a warm place, leaving it for about 50-60 minutes. This time should be enough for it to grow well and double in size. Place it on a baking sheet and make sides. Let the base expand slightly by placing it in a warm place.
For the filling prepare:
- fresh champignons – 300 g;
- ham – 150 g
- onion – 1 pc.;
- 150 g each of cherry tomatoes and sweet peppers;
- olives – 100 g;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- mozzarella – 200 g;
- 150 ml tomato sauce;
- olive oil – 10 ml;
- salt, pepper - a pinch.
- fresh basil leaves.
Champignons together with onions, peppers and garlic are fried in a frying pan, as indicated in the recipe above. Next you need to prepare the pizza base with mushrooms and ham. To do this, spread the sauce on it, place champignons and vegetables on top, then sliced ham, tomatoes, cut pitted olives. Season all this with salt and pepper, cover with mozzarella and place in the oven for half an hour at 200 degrees. Add basil after cooking - before serving.
Another pizza with ham and mushrooms is prepared according to the following recipe with photos - it will not leave anyone indifferent. The dough can be prepared as you usually make for such a dish. But the ingredients for the filling will be as follows:
- 200 g each of ham and fresh champignons;
- olives – 100 g;
- artichokes – 2-3 pcs.;
- lemon juice;
- hard cheese.
Cut the mushrooms into slices and fry in olive oil, chop the meat into thin layers, cut the pitted olives in half.
Remove the leaves from the artichokes and cut into slices, which are placed in water with lemon juice to prevent them from turning black.
Place all components on a base sprinkled with olive oil, starting with mushrooms, meat, artichoke slices, olives, and finish with grated cheese.
Bake at 200 degrees for a quarter of an hour.
Hawaiian pizza with ham and pineapple
For lovers of original dishes, Hawaiian pizza, a recipe with ham and pineapples, will become one of their favorites. Absolutely everyone will enjoy this amazing combination of cheese, ham and sweet aromatic pineapple.
Ingredients:
for test:
- durum wheat flour - 500 gr.;
- milk or water, although in some cases it can be mixed in any proportions - 200 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- salt - 1/2 tsp;
- granulated sugar - 1 tbsp. without slide;
- dry yeast - 6-7 g. or fresh pressed yeast - 15 g.;
- vegetable oil that does not have a pronounced smell or taste - 50 g.
For filling:
- ketchup, which can be with a variety of additives - with garlic, with herbs or for barbecue. It all depends on individual preferences;
- ham - can be boiled or boiled-smoked;
- hard cheese - preferably spicy varieties with a pronounced taste;
- canned pineapple.
The amount of filling depends on individual preferences.
See also: Hawaiian Pizza with Chicken and Pineapples
Step-by-step preparation:
Initially, you need to prepare the dough, as it requires proofing. To do this, perform the following sequence of actions:
Step 1. Heat milk or water to 30°C and stir sugar, salt and yeast into it.
Step 2. Then add vegetable oil and beat in the egg.
Step 3. A small amount of flour is poured into the liquid component and stirred.
Step 4. This must be left for 30 minutes in order to obtain a dough.
Step 5. When the mass increases in volume due to the process that the yeast causes, you need to add the rest of the flour and knead into a smooth elastic dough. Please note that the amount of flour may vary depending on the gluten it contains.
Step 6. The kneaded dough must be left for approximately 1 hour in a warm place without drafts so that it increases in volume.
Step 7. After the dough has risen, you need to knead it and form it into a pizza base.
Step 8. Grease a baking sheet with butter and sprinkle with flour.
Place the dough on it. Step 9. Lubricate the surface with ketchup.
Step 10. Then you need to cut the ham into small cubes.
Step 11. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
Step 12. Remove the pineapples from the jar and cut into small slices.
Step 13. Place the ham and pineapples on a surface coated with ketchup. And then sprinkle grated cheese on top.
Step 14. Place in the oven for 25-30 minutes at a temperature no higher than 190 C°.
It is important to monitor the pizza at all times so that the cheese on the top layer does not burn. If there is such an opportunity in the oven (usually an electric option), you can remove the top heat supply at the final stage.
Hawaiian pizza with ham and pineapple while hot, cut into portions and serve. Its sweet and sour filling will not leave anyone indifferent.
Bon appetit!
Pizza with ham, marinated mushrooms and cheese
This recipe is perfect for when you need to quickly prepare something tasty. This pizza with ham and fresh mushrooms, for a description of the baking steps below, will take no more than 40 minutes, including cooking in the oven. As a basis, you can take a ready-made product that is sold in supermarkets.
The filling combines the following components:
- 300 g champignons;
- 200 g ham;
- lemon juice – 2-4 tbsp. l.;
- fresh basil - a small bunch;
- 200 g cheese (hard).
The mushrooms need to be cleaned, cut into thin slices, add lemon juice and finely chopped basil (you can also use dried). Mix everything and leave for a quarter of an hour to marinate. During this time, you can prepare the ham, cutting it into thin slices, and the cheese, which can be chopped into cubes.
Champignons are laid out on the base, ham and pieces of cheese are on top, and the preparation is placed in the oven for 20 minutes.
Pizza with ham, pickled mushrooms and cheese, prepared in a hurry, turns out very tasty. If desired, you can add tomato cut into rings to the recipe.
Pizza with mushrooms, ham, mozzarella cheese and tomatoes
The dough for this pizza can be prepared according to the thin base recipe described earlier.
Next, start preparing the tomato sauce, its ingredients will be:
- 300 g tomatoes;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- olive oil – 10-15 ml;
- basil.
Pour boiling water over the tomatoes, remove the peel, and grind to a paste using a blender. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry chopped garlic in it. Pour in the tomato pulp and boil for 10 minutes, add the basil, having previously crushed it.
Let the sauce cool and spread it onto your pizza base. Start preparing fresh mushrooms for an Italian pizza with mushrooms, pork ham, mozzarella cheese and tomatoes. Peel them in an amount of 300 g, cut into slices and fry. Place them on the base with the sauce, top with 150 g of ham and 200 g of mozzarella, cut into cubes. Baking at a temperature of 200 degrees will take about 20 minutes.
