Variations on a theme – stuffed crust pizza!
Several months ago, I posted my favorite recipe for pizza dough (from the Frugal Gourmet). My youngest son, John loves stuffed crust pizza with the cheese stuffing so tonight I thought I would try an experiment. I made up a batch of the dough and when it was ready, pushed and pulled it into a disk about 4″ in diameter bigger than usual. The only cheese I had was grated mozzarella so I had to get creative. I warmed some up in the microwave for 10 seconds. It came out nice and pliable and a bit sticky. Now for the fun part, I rolled the cheese in to “snakes” about 4″ long – exactly the way you used to make snakes and worms out of Playdoh when you were a kid! I made about a dozen of these. Now, I simply positioned the “snakes” an 1.5″ in from the edge of the dough. Once I had a ring of cheese snakes, I folded over the extra dough and pinched it to the crust to seal in the cheese. It was that simple!
Prepare the pizza and cook like my previous post. It was delicious!