Nettle and Ricotta pizza

Local wild nettles and creamy Ricotta combine beatifully to produce an irresistible pizza, ready in just over fifteen minutes

Nettle and Ricotta pizza

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Ingredients

  • 75g pizza dough

  • 200g fresh young nettles 

  • 1 garlic clove, slivered or finely chopped

  • 35g fresh Mozzarella

  • Maldon sea salt

  • freshly ground pepper

  • extra virgin olive oil

  • 25g Ricotta or Ardsallagh Goat's cheese

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 250ËšC. Preheat a heavy baking sheet in the oven.

  2. Stretch or roll the dough into a thin round. Sprinkle a little cornmeal onto a paddle. Lay the pizza on top. Brush with extra virgin olive oil, sprinkle with chopped garlic and roughly grated mozzarella. 

  3. Top with a mound of young nettles. Mist generously with water, season with salt and freshly ground pepper and top with a few blobs of Ricotta or Ardsallagh Goat's cheese.

  4. Cook for 7-8 minutes depending on the intensity of the heat.

  5. Remove from the oven, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and serve immediately with a few flakes of Maldon sea salt sprinkled over the top.
    This recipe is from Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkley, California

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