So you need lunch or dinner fast. You look in the fridge and see an assortment of odds and ends and think - "Hey, that might make a good pizza/flatbread". Using this technique described by Kenji Lopez-Alt, all you need is a 10" flour tortilla, a heavy skillet or frying pan and some toppings. What did I have? Cheese, some grilled eggplant (from last week's CSA), some grilled chicken and garlic confit in olive oil I'd made using this Vivian Howard recipe for a butterbean hummus I still need to make.
Technique:
Heat a skillet (cast iron or I use a ceramic non-stick) over medium high heat and add 1-2 tsp of olive oil. Pre-heat the broiler and adjust a rack to 6-8" below the broiler. Have all your toppings ready to go. For this pizza, I used:
Large flour tortilla
Garlic confit in olive oil (see recipe above - used garlic from the CSA)
Chopped grilled eggplant (from last week's CSA)
Chopped grilled chicken
Mozarella cheese
For this, I used 1-2 tsp of the oil from the garlic confit to spread over the tortilla as "sauce".
Once the oil in the skillet is smoking hot, use a paper towel to wipe the oil out of the pan, leaving a thin coating behind. Drop in the tortilla, rough side down (oil side up!) and reduce heat to low. Add your toppings (chopped confit garlic clove, eggplant and chicken) and cover w/ mozzarella. Try to spread the cheese to the edge of the tortilla. Put the plan under the broiler and heat for 2-4 minutes until the cheese is browned and bubbly. Remove from oven and use a spatula to release the pizza from the pan - if it's not quite browned and crispy enough of the bottom, heat carefully over medium heat, swirling the pan. Remove from pan to a cutting board, slice into pizza-style triangles or squares if you're a rebel and serve.
Adapt this technique to whatever ingredients you have on hand!
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