Mushroom & Herb Pizza Appetizer
Ingredients
1 ball Best Pizza Dough (or Food Processor Dough or Thin Crust Dough)
1 ½ Cups sliced mixed
mushrooms (baby bella aka cremini, button, shiitake, and oyster)
1 Tbsp each finely
chopped fresh thyme and oregano, plus more sprigs for topping
¼ tsp plus 1 pinch
salt kosher salt, divided
1 Tbsp olive oil,
plus more for drizzling
1 Tbsp fresh lemon
juice
1 to 2 ounces
goat cheese, crumbled
¾ Cup shredded
mozzarella cheese
1 to 2 Tbsp
finely chopped chives
Semolina flour or
cornmeal, for dusting the pizza peel (flat pizza handle
thingy)
Directions
1. Make
the pizza dough of your choice. (I used store bought!)
2.
Preheat to 500°F. OR preheat your pizza oven.
3.
Clean mushrooms, then slice them. In a sauté pan or skillet, heat
the 1 tablespoon olive oil to medium high heat. Add the mushrooms, chopped
herbs, and ¼ teaspoon salt and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
When mushrooms are tender, reduce the heat to low, add lemon juice. Remove from
the heat.
4.
Dust a pizza peel (or rimless
baking sheet) with cornmeal or semolina flour). Stretch the dough into a
circle; Then gently place the dough onto the pizza peel/baking sheet.
5. Brush
a thin layer of olive oil onto the crust. Then top with the mozzarella cheese
in an even layer, then cooked mushrooms, and crumbles of goat cheese. Garnish
with the chopped chives and additional thyme sprigs. Sprinkle with 1 pinch
salt.
6.
Use pizza peel to put in oven. Bake the pizza until the cheese and crust are
nicely browned, about 5 to 7 minutes in the oven (or 1 minute in a pizza oven).
Slice into pieces and serve immediately.
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