My New Favorite Pizza Has a Cottage Cheese Crust
Ingredients
- 1 1 cottage cheese
- 1 1 flour + a few tablespoons for dusting
- 1 teaspoons 1 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoons 1 teaspoons coarse kosher salt
- 12 olive oil – tablespoons
- 1/41/3 1/41/3 sauce to (I’ve been using Rao’s marinara)
- 1/31/2 1/31/2 shredded mozzarella cheese to
- 1/41/2 1/41/2 grated Parmesan cheese to
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Instructions
- Preheat: Preheat the oven to 450 degrees and place a rack at the highest position, near the top.
- Prep Cottage Cheese: Blend the cottage cheese until smooth.
- Make Dough for Crust: Place blended cottage cheese in a bowl; mix with the flour, baking powder and salt until a dough starts to come together. It will start to get kind of shaggy, crumbly, and sticky – use your hands to really bring it together. I usually turn it out on the counter and give it a few squishes, coating with a bit of extra flour, to make it into a cohesive ball.
- Form The Crust: Place a sheet of parchment on a pizza pan or baking sheet. Place the dough on the parchment and press into a circle that is about 10-12 inches in diameter. It is a pretty bready crust, so you want to really press it out into a thinner, wider surface area.
- Prep The Crust: Rub the top of the crust with olive oil.
- Pre-Bake The Crust: Place in the oven; bake (no toppings) for 8-10 minutes.
- Add Sauce and Cheese: Remove from oven. Spread with sauce and top with the two cheeses. Bake on that same top rack for another 5 minutes to melt the cheeses.
- Broil and Finish: Finally, broil for 2-3 minutes until the cheese and crust edges are deeply golden, like the picture. I like to sprinkle the slices with red pepper flakes, drizzle with olive oil or hot honey, and dip into more sauce! It’s too good!
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