Thursday, 19 August 2010

• Double Garlic, Blue Potato and Egg Pizza

  This is a guest post from Cooking Stuff.
  
  
  

  • herbed pizza dough
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • baby blue potato, sliced thin
  • red onion, sliced thin
  • shredded mozzarella and Dubliner (or whatever you like)
  • eggs

  
  Heat the oil and garlic on low in a small sauce pan for 10-15 minutes. You don't want the garlic to brown. Roll out the dough and dock it. Brush it with just the infused oil, then top it with the cheese, potatoes, onions and bits of garlic from the oil. Bake in a very hot, preheated oven for 10 minutes then pull it out, crack the eggs onto it and get it back in the oven. Let it cook until the eggs are as done as you want, 5-10 minutes.
  
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  You heard right, double garlic. There's some onion on there too, so I don't suggest making this for a date. Unless of course you're both into garlic breath, then hey, have at it. Heh.
  
  This was quite possibly the strangest looking pizza I've ever made, but I guess that's not too surprising considering there are blue potatoes on it. The potatoes in question came in a "baby potato medley" and I didn't feel right mashing them up like I was doing with all the others. So I decided, completely out of character, to make a pizza with them. I had some herbed dough and figured I'd make a white one, since the crust would have so much flavor already.
  
  I don't have a mandolin or particularly awesome knife skills, so I figured I'd slice the potato on the large slice side of my box grater.
  
  
  Worked alright, even if the slices aren't particularly pretty. Then I rolled out my dough and docked it.
  
  
  For those who don't know, docking is when you stab the dough with a fork or something of the sort to help keep air bubbles from forming. I find I get many less mutant pizzas when I do this. While the oven was preheating I had left a metal measuring cup with a quarter cup of olive oil and two cloves of minced garlic on the stove top.
  
  See, my oven is wicked inefficient, lots of heat escapes while it's going. Over the course of the half hour or so that I preheated the oven the oil got nicely infused. You could also just do this over the stove on a low heat, if you have a quality oven. Anyway, then I brushed on some of the garlic oil (not the chunks, just the oil).
  
  
  That's garlic number one. Then just a whisper of cheese.
  
  
  Heh. I know, I know, it looks like an awful lot. And it is. That's just how I get down sometimes. It's a mix of mozzarella and Dubliner, the latter of which I've been enjoying a lot lately. Goes great with tuna salad.
  
  Then I put on the potatoes, which had soaked for a while in salted water.
  
  
  I'm told that removes starch and a little moisture, letting them brown better. I wanted some onion on there so I sliced some red onion into thin slices.
  
  Thin enough to see though slices, even. And that was by hand, kids. Although they weren't all that thin. Heh. Then I took some of the oily garlic chunks
  
  
  and dolloped them around.
  
  
  That would be double garlic.
  
  Then I stuck it in the oven for ten minutes or so, pulled it out and cracked a couple eggs on top. None of that got photographed though, I wanted to do it as quickly as possible.
  
  But these are the eggs,
   
  they're really small and really fresh. I got them from the same source as last time I got fresh eggs and they were just as awesome. I left it in for another five or ten minutes, I don't remember exactly I'm afraid, I pulled it out when the whites were set.
  
  And this shows you how bad my oven is. See the egg on the right?
  
  
  The yolk is cooked solid. See the egg on the left?
  
  
  Yeah.
   
  Slightly less so.
  
  This is why I don't bake a lot of cakes in this apartment.
  
  But solid or runny, it was awesome. The garlic crisped up and mellowed out really well, the potatoes didn't brown much, but they softened nicely and added a good earthy flavor. I did prefer the runny egg, I love runny yolks, but both added an excellent richness. That I suppose it didn't really need, what with all the cheese. But hey, it was most of what I was eating that day. Heh.
  
  So who else has had eggs on pizza? What do you think of them?
  

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