Ottaviana's Kitchen Traditional Italian Pizza Recipe's

Pizza Dishes

Nothing says "Party Time" like Pizza. Mamma always
made it for all our party's, and especially New Years
eve, that was a tradition. Me, I like little swimmers
(anchovies) on them.

Maria's
Basic Pizza Bread Dough©

1 tbsp. Crisco oil
2 pkgs. yeast
1 tbsp Sugar
½ tsp salt
2 cups warm water
4 cups flour
1 tsp. garlic juice (optional)

Place flour on a wooden pastry board, and make a little well in the flour add oil, salt, yeast and warm water and mix. Knead until smooth. Place in a large bowl and cover with a towel, place in warm area and let rise Punch down and let rise again. Then in a large cookie sheet, shape the dough, push down and let rise again before baking. Bake at 350°- 400° till brown.

Ottaviana's
Sausage and Peppers Pizza ©

1 recipe Maria's bread dough
Roasted Red Bell peppers
1lb thin sliced Mozzarella
3-4 Italian Sausage (sweet or hot)
1 small can of sliced black olives drained
1 med can crushed tomatoes, drained,
or prepared pizza sauce
2 tbsp. olive oil

Strip casings from sausage, and break up in little pieces and cook in frying pan. Drain off any oil. Use the same recipe for the peppers as found on the Anitpasta page. Cut up the peppers small, but not too small. With the prepared dough in pan, brush dough with olive oil. Arrange tomatoes, peppers, sausage, and black olive all over pizza. Sprinkle with oregano and salt, and top with Mozzarella. Cook in hot oven at 400° for about 20 minutes.

Stuffed Calazone ©

1 recipe for Maria's Bread dough
1/4 cup oil
1/2 lb Mozzarella diced
1/4 lb sliced prosciutto
cut into slivers
1/8 lb Italian salami
cut into slivers
1/8 tsp salt
2 cups tomato sauce
(see Neapolitan sauce recipe)
2 tbsp grated Romano cheese

Cut your dough into 4 parts, and press and roll each part until you have 4 large disks about 1/4 inch thick. Coat each one with oil. Place on each one a quater of mozzarella, prosciutto, salami, and salt. Fold each one over pressing around the edges and making sure your stuffing is closed in good. Coat each calzone with more oil, and place on a cookie sheet in a hot oven 400° for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and pour sauce all over calazone and sprinkle with grated Romano cheese.

Anchovy Pizza©

1 recipe Maria's bread dough
1 large can tomatoes, drained
2 cans anchovy filets
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
4 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp dry oregano

Roll out and stretch dough over 2 twelve inch pie plates, or one large cookie sheet. Paint dough with 1 tbsp of olive oil. Spread tomatoes over the dough. Put anchovies over tomatoes. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and olive oil. Top with oregano and bake at 400° for 20 minutes, or until the edges of the pizza are crisp.

Mozzarella Pizza©

1 recipe Maria's bread dough
1 large can tomatoes, drained
1/2 tsp salt
1/ tsp pepper
1 lb thinly sliced mozzarella
4 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp dry oregano
1/4 tsp of dry basil

Roll out and stretch dough over 2 twelve inch pie plates, or one large cookie sheet. Paint dough with 1 tbsp of olive oil. Arrange half of the tomatoes over dough and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place mozzarella over tomatoes. Sprinkle with olive oil, oregano and basil and bake at 400° for 20 minutes, or until cheese is melted and edges of pizza are crisp.

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