Pizza with hot dogs – pizza con i würstel
Pizza with hot dogs is my son’s favorite. It’s actually a pizza loved by most kids around here. It’s really easy to make, it only has a few ingredients tomato, mozzarella and hot dogs. It’s the most common pizza at birthday parties. As a matter of fact I just had my son’s birthday party the other day and among all the other treats I prepared the dough to make pizza Margherita and pizza with hot dogs. Needless to say that all the kids wanted the hot dog pizza so I quickly changed my plans and added hot dogs to the Margherita I still had to bake.
Ingredients:
The following ingredients are for half of the dough if you’re making 2 thin crust pizzas or a thick one
1/2 cup plain tomato sauce without citric acid
about 7 oz./g. 200 Italian cow milk mozzarella or buffalo mozzarella
1 large hot dog or more if you like
dry oregano (optional)
sea salt to taste
extra virgin olive oil
Instructions:
1. Prepare the dough as directed and let it raise for 2 and a half hours.
2. When ready, cover the baking sheet approximately 15 ” x 11″ with parchment paper. I use a regular rectangular baking sheet, but if you want you can use a round pan, the equivalent should be about a 13″ pizza pan. If you’re preparing this pizza for the kids I suggest you to bake it in a rectangular sheet so then you can cut in squares. It’ll be easier for them to eat.
3. When the dough is well raised it’s very playable take half and place it on the baking sheet and stretch it. Help yourself by using your fingers to push it to the borders.
4. Let the dough rise for 30 minute more and in the meantime preheat the oven to 450°.
5. Spread the tomato sauce, sprinkle it with sea salt, dry oregano if you like and a good drizzle of olive oil.
6. Bake in the middle part of the oven for about 10 minutes or until the bottom of the crust starts to turn golden brown.
7. Now add the mozzarella cut in thin slices or cubed and the hot dogs cut in rounds.
8. Cook for 10-15 more minutes. Let it rest for about 5 minutes so the cheese will settle and then cut it in squares or slices if you made a round pizza and serve it right away.
Gigliola and I are coming to Verona for most of April and one of the first things I will be having is pizza. I have tried and tried to duplicate the style of pizza I find in the pisserias in Verona but have never had success. The thin crust that bubbles up is what I am looking for. Some information on the Internet talks about using 00 flour but you mention all purpose flour. Is there much difference? I was also thinking that maybe its the wood fired ovens that make the difference. I always bake my pissas at very high heat in an electric range. Its fun to try to duplicate the foods of Italy in America but I find there are some things that I just cannot seem to manage. Pizza is one of them. Risoto Tastasal is another. And then there is Cotechino with Polenta. Cotechino does not exist in Columbus, Ohio.
There is a pisseria in Quinzan, VR. called PIZZERIA ITALIa di FERRARI PAOLO I have never been to before, which is a short walk from where we stay. I am looking forward to trying it for the first time.
We sure do enjoy your newsletter Patti. No need for any cookbooks in our house with all of the good things you publish here.
Michael this is the best compliment I ever received, thank you!
I know the pizzeria you’re talking about I’ve been there and it was good. However it was few years ago so I don’t know now. Seeing that you two have almost a month in Verona if you want I can send you some other suggestions by email.
When I first started to make pizza I used flour 00 but then I switched to 0 (1 works well too). All purpose flour or bread flour will work for you. Pizza made at home is certainly different from the one baked in a wood oven there’s no doubt about that, but you can achieve great results just the same.
I recently tried a new procedure but I have to experiment with it and if it works better I’ll let you all know.
Have a nice vacation in Italy!
Your offer to send a suggestion for a pisseria or two would be very much appreciated. We don’t eat out a lot when we visit Verona but when we do, it is usually in small out of the city places. My favorite places to eat are pizzerias and Refugios in the mountains. Not so fancy but wonderful food at reasonable prices most of the time. By the way Patty, have you considered having a smart phone App developed for your site?