Tomato Pizza, Caramelized Onions, Mushrooms, Mozzarella

Preheat your oven to 425°F

Setting up

• Peel the onion and finely cut the garlic and the chives.
• Mince the mushrooms and grate the mozzarella with the Easy Grater by Starfrit.

Pizza dough

• Add in the yeast to the room tempered water, inside a mixing bowl.
• Add all the other ingredients and slowly spin with a mixer.
• Make sure to keep some spare water, you will need it if the mix turns out too dry.
• Once the dough is smooth and homogeneous, speed up the mixer to medium speed for 3 to 5 minutes.
• Put the dough on a clean table and make a ball out of it, with your hands.
• Place it inside a bowl lightly covered with oil.
• Cover the bowl with a humid cloth and let the dough rest until it doubles in volume - 35 minutes give or take depending on the environment.
• Cut the dough according to the desired size of pizza and make balls. Let them rest again under a humid cloth on a cooking tray for 30 minutes.
• With a rolling pin or with your hands, flatten down the dough to make a nice circle.

Tomato sauce

• In a stewpot with vegetable oil, cook the onions, add the thyme, the bay leaves and the garlic.
• Stir everything together, add the tomatoes, mix and then add the oregano and the sugar.
• Bring to a boil and then lower the heat and let simmer.
• Let it cook to have a maximum reduction.
• Stir from time to time for approximately 45mins.
• Taste it and if too acid, keep on cooking until you have a smooth and tasty sauce.
• Blend sauce with a hand mixer.
• Add salt & pepper to taste.

Assembly

• On the dough generously add the cooled tomato sauce, then the onions and the mushrooms.
• Sprinkle the chives and the grated cheese all over.
• Put the pizza in the oven and make sure to have a nice coloration.

Chef's tip

• It is crucial NOT to put the salt and yeast in with the water simultaneously while making the dough as the dough feeds on sugar and dies with the salt.
• Mix the water and yeast with salt and flour only at the very end!