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Cacio e Pepe Pizza

A long cacio e pepe pizza made with cheese and garlic, served on a cutting board
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
10 min
Yields
1 pizza, 4 servings

Cooked in their beautiful wood-fire oven, this one-of-a-kind pizza has a chewy, soft crust layered with melted stracchino, freshly grated pecorino cheese and black pepper. This is one pizza you won’t want to share.

Courtesy of Chef Craig Harding of La Palma.

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ingredients

Garlic Purée

8
cloves garlic, freshly peeled
1
cup (250 ml) vegetable oil

Pizza Dough

Buy your favourite premade pizza dough

Toppings

½
cup (100 g) of stracchino cheese, diced
¼
cup (50 g) of pecorino lupa cheese
cup (10 g) of black pepper
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directions

Step 1

For the garlic purée: put garlic cloves and vegetable oil in a pot and simmer until garlic is soft, for about 15-20 minutes.

Step 2

Strain garlic and keep both oil and the garlic cloves.

Step 3

Puree the garlic cloves, until soft, while slowly drizzling the strained oil back in.

Step 4

Take the portioned dough and stretch it out.

Step 5

To assemble: dress the pizza with the garlic purée, diced stracchino cheese, and black pepper.

Step 6

Place it in the oven at 425°F for 8-10 minutes.

Step 7

Take the pizza out and brush the crust with the garlic infused oil (the same oil that was cooked down for the garlic purée).

Step 8

Then garnish it with more black pepper, and a healthy amount of grated pecorino lupa cheese. 

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