Pizza Perfect

Pancetta, spinach and pinenut pizza

Last weekend, when I had just managed to burn to a crisp a whole packet of free range organic bacon, I had to go rummaging in the fridge to see what else I could make for lunch. We had had pizza the night before and there was a little dough left, some tomato sauce,some cubed pancetta and some mozzarella. I also had some pine nuts hanging around and some spinach, so I thought that would make a very nice topping for the pizza.

I found Jamie Oliver’s recipe for the pizza dough online as I’m lazy and couldn’t be bothered to type it out again and low and behold it has the tomato sauce recipe on there too, thanks Jamie.

So simply make the dough and tomato sauce as instructed. Preheat the oven to it’s highest setting and put in what you intend to cook the pizza on so it gets very hot (we have a piece of marble that seems to work really well). Roll out a piece of dough on a floured surface quite thinly and transfer onto the preheated marble slab. Ladle on a small amount of the tomato sauce and spread over the surface evenly. Scatter the pancetta, pine nuts, and the torn mozzarella over the top, season and put into the oven for eight to ten minutes depending on how well done you want it. A couple of minutes before it is finished cooking, put on a handful of the spinach to wilt nicely on top. When done, carefully take it out of the oven and transfer onto a board, grate nutmeg over the top, and drizzle with a bit of olive oil, (I used a tiny amount of white truffle oil which worked really well) divide into slices and serve.

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4 Responses to “Pizza Perfect”

  1. Rachel@fairycakeheaven Says:

    mmmmmmmmmmm, I used to use the Jamie recipe, works very well indeed

  2. Donal Says:

    Hey there!

    This sounds great- I’d say the pine nuts are great in this! YUM!

  3. Kitchen Goddess Says:

    Oh that looks wonderful I love the idea of the pine nuts too, delish.

    Sarah I’ve tagged you, please pop over to my blog when you get chance.

  4. Kitchen Goddess Says:

    Sorry I meant to leave you the link

    http://culinarytravelsofakitchengoddess.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/another-game-of-tag/

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