Pizza Fritta Fried Pizza Dough Recipes

PIZZA FRITTA

Steps:

• Make your dough, proving it for 1 hour, rather than overnight, and your Hero tomato sauce. When the time's up, divide the dough into 12 balls on a flour-dusted surface, dust them with flour, cover with a clean damp tea towel, and rest for 10 minutes.
• One at a time, press out a ball of dough with your fingers, stretching and flattening it into a 15cm round. Finely grate the Parmesan and beat with the ricotta, then add a heaped spoonful to your dough round. Tear over a little mozzarella, season, push a few basil leaves into the top, then fold over the dough to seal the filling inside. Press down to stick, twisting and tucking the dough, if needed, like pizza ravioli! Repeat.
• Heat the vegetable oil in a large, sturdy pan over a medium-high heat. Drop in a cube of potato and when it's golden and rises to the surface, the oil is ready. I'm not a lover of deep-frying but it does give the best results here - please be careful. Working in batches, lower in two fritte to cook for 1½ minutes on each side, or until golden. Remove to a plate lined with kitchen paper to drain, then let the oil come back up to temperature before adding the next two. Warm the tomato sauce and serve on the side for dunking. Sprinkle more fresh basil leaves over the fritte, to serve.

ITALIAN PIZZA FRITTA FRIED DOUGH

Steps:

• Mix until dough forms a smooth dough and if still sticky add a little more flour by a tablespoon at a time.
• Place in a bowl, cover with a towel that has been dampened and wait until double in size as it rises.
• Stretch out around two tablespoons of dough into a circle poking a hole in the center like a doughnut or shape into small round balls.
• . Place on a cookie sheet, lined with floured parchment paper.
• In the meantime, heat the oil in a fry pan, on medium-low heat.
• Place a little piece of dough, (the size of a dime) in the oil to see if it sizzles and it hot enough.
• Place the stretched out the dough or dough balls, into the oil and fry on both sides until golden brown.
• Take out of oil when done, place on paper towels to drain oil.
• Sprinkle with regular white sugar, powdered sugar or flavored sugar such as cinnamon and sugar.

PIZZA FRITTA - ITALIAN FRIED PIZZA

Steps:

• Heat up the passata in a small saucepan along with the garlic and olive oil. Simmer for a few minutes for the flavours to infuse, then switch off the heat. Note: Skip this step if you want to use plain passata.
• Sprinkle flour over a clean work surface and your fingers, then portion out pizza dough into pieces roughly the size of your fist. Flatten and stretch the dough out into rough circles around 1 cm / 0.4 inch thick and 10-15 cm / 4-6 inch wide.
• Pour vegetable oil into a small frying pan until it's just covering the bottom of the pan by about 0.5 cm / 0.2 inch. Heat through. Test with a wooden chopstick or toothpick and when bubbles form on the tip, it's ready to start frying.
• Stretch each piece of dough out again just before cooking so it cooks evenly. Fry each piece separately for 1 minute per side until golden brown and puffy. Drain on paper towel.
• Top fried dough with quick pizza sauce or passata, mozzarella / bocconcini and fresh basil leaves or your chosen pizza toppings. Garnish with freshly grated parmesan.

CRISPY DEEP-FRIED PIZZA

Steps:

• Preheat the oil to 365 degrees F. A deep-fryer is best, but if using a stove top method, fill a cast iron Dutch oven or heavy chicken fryer with oil about 4 inches deep.
• Roll dough out and cut it in half. Stir the oregano and basil into the pizza sauce. Slice the pepperoni. Spread half of the pizza sauce on half of each side, of the dough, add the cheese and pepperoni, distributing evenly. Apply a thin line of the water to the edge of the dough and fold each over onto itself and press to seal.
• Check the oil temperature and carefully add the pizza pockets. Cook for 2 minutes, turn over and cook for 1 minute more. Remove to a paper towel lined plate. Transfer the pizza to serving plates and garnish with remaining pizza sauce, Parmesan and fresh basil leaves.
• Combine all the dry ingredients in bowl of food processor or stand mixer. Or if by hand, combine in a medium bowl. Add the warm water to small glass bowl. Sprinkle the yeast over and let it sit for 10 to 15 minutes. Add oil and yeast mixture to dry ingredients and depending on method using, combine until a dough ball forms. For food processor, pulse on dough setting until dough is smooth and elastic. For stand mixer, slow speed until dough is smooth and elastic. For hand method, knead on lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic. Form the dough into a ball. Lightly oil a large bowl, add the dough ball to it, cover tightly with plastic wrap or a well-floured tea towel, and set in a warm place or a 100 degree F oven until doubled, about 1 hour.
• Punch down, and let rest for 5 minutes. Divide the dough in half for 2 large pizzas or into 4 equal pieces for calzones or small individual pizzas. Roll the dough into 1/4-inch thick rounds. Cooks Note: Can be made ahead and also freezes well.

PIZZA FRITTA (FRIED PIZZA DOUGH)

Steps:

• Heat oil in frying pan.
• Break off ~2" pieces of dough.
• Place in hot oil, cook until done (around 3-5 min and turning once).
• Place on paper towel and let drain (1 min).
• Sprinkle with granulated sugar.
• Cut open and place in a teaspoon of jelly (optional), or just eat them as is.
• --OR--.
• Do not add sugar/jelly - let cool and just cut open place sauce/cheese/meat/whatever inside then bake in oven for ~3-5min (until done). It's like having an extra good hot pocket LOL.

FRIED PIZZA DOUGH (PIZZA FRITTA)

Steps:

• Prepare one recipe of easiest no knead pizza dough until step #4.
• Scrape the dough onto a floured surface and use floured hands to flatten into a rectangle. Fold the two sides edges toward the center. Then fold the top and bottom edges toward the center. Gather the dough into a ball and place seam side down in a lightly greased bowl. Let sit one hour.
• Use floured hands to divide the dough into 8 balls (or less if you prefer larger portions). Cover and let sit 20 minutes longer.
• Heat olive oil over medium heat in a medium sized non-stick or cast iron skillet. Use your finger tips to flatten the dough into a circle. Avoid adding too much flour to your work surface at this point as the extra flour in the skillet tends to burn.
• Place the dough in the hot skillet. Fry for 1-2 minutes until golden and puffy. Flip it over and cook 1-2 minutes longer. Transfer to a paper towel covered tray to absorb excess oil.
• Continue with the remaining pieces of dough. Add extra olive oil to the pan as needed.
• Serve hot.

PIZZA FRITTA WITH TOMATO SAUCE OR HONEY

Steps:

• In a saucepan, heat up extra-virgin olive oil for the tomato sauce. Add the crushed tomatoes, garlic, salt and basil. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Divide dough into 8 equal parts. Stretch and flatten out each piece with your hands to create little pizzas.
• In a large pan, heat the extra-virgin olive oil on high heat. Gently place each piece of dough in the hot oil and cook for about a minute on each side. Once the dough is puffy and golden brown on both sides, remove them from the pan and place on a paper towel to absorb the excess oil.
• Remove any raw garlic, if desired, from the tomato sauce and spoon sauce onto the fried dough. Top with freshly grated pecorino cheese, and serve immediately.
• For a sweet version: drizzle honey on the fried dough, and serve hot.