Potato Pizza with Truffles, Swiss Chard and Bresaola
A round delight topped with elegant ingredients – perfect for health-conscious pizza lovers.
Ingredients
- 250 g starchy boiling potatoes
- 150 g Whole wheat flour
- 100 g wheat flour (Type 550)
- Salt
- 0.5 cube Yeast
- 200 g Swiss chard
- 200 g truffles
- 1 onion
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Pepper
- 80 g Pecorino cheese
- 300 g diced canned tomatoes
- 0.5 tsp Dried oregano
- 60 g Bresaola
Instructions
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1.
Wash potatoes thoroughly and boil with skins on for 20 minutes. Drain, rinse cold, and let cool.
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2.
Peel once cooled and press hot through a potato masher into a bowl.
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3.
Add both flours and ½ tsp salt, mix. Create a well in the center, crumble yeast into it. Pour 150 ml lukewarm water over and knead with a hand mixer’s dough hooks until smooth. Cover and let rise in a warm spot for about 30 minutes.
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4.
Clean Swiss chard, slice into strips, rinse in a sieve, and drain. Brush truffles clean. Peel and finely chop onion.
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5.
Heat oil in a non-stick pan. Sauté chard, truffles, and onion for 2–3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
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6.
Shave Pecorino cheese into fine flakes with a paring knife. Reserve half for later use.
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7.
Divide dough on a floured surface into four portions and roll each into a round pizza (≈23 cm diameter).
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8.
Place two pizzas on a sheet of parchment paper sized to fit the baking tray. Transfer the parchment with pizzas onto the tray.
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9.
Spread diced tomatoes over the pizzas. Season with salt, pepper, and oregano. Sprinkle Pecorino flakes on top. Bake in a preheated oven at 225 °C (200 °C fan or gas level 3–4) on the lowest rack for 10 minutes to pre-bake.
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10.
Distribute the chard-truffle mixture over the pre-baked pizzas and bake for an additional 5–10 minutes. Remove, lift pizzas with parchment from the tray, then place remaining pizzas on a new sheet of parchment and bake similarly.
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11.
Cut Bresaola into large pieces and top finished pizzas. Sprinkle with reserved Pecorino flakes and serve immediately.