Pizza Prosciutto Recipe Chef

Pizza ham and .... , may seem incredible, but on five pizzas that are produced in Italy, three of them have the ham in the ingredients that are used. When we speak of ham we must make a distinction between the raw and the cooked. Of ham on pizza we dealt this in my previous article, Today we'll talk about ham on pizza. Like equally to adults and children, and is often combined with other ingredients, very popular is pizza ham and mushrooms, is present on the four seasons, the capricious, in his pants, combined with artichokes and I could continue this list indefinitely. The pizza is placed sliced, and it is always better to divide the slices into smaller pieces for a cosmetic issue but mostly because the ingredients completely covered by slices of cooked ham whole would not even cooking, producing a floating effect of the ingredients on the pizza.

There are many types of cooked ham, from the one that costs a few euro per kilo to finish in quality hams that cost tens of euro per kilo. I remind you that the pizza was born as a poor dish, then, always use a few ingredients, but always choose quality ones.

Dough for pizza with ham

In order to prepare 4 pizza ham prepared the following ingredients:

To do 4 balls of dough from 250 grams

Flour type "0" 625 grams

Water 375 grams

Sale 15 grams

Yeast 1,2 grams

Sugar 10 grams

Oil 2-3 spoons

In a bowl, pour the water and the yeast scioglieteci.

Add the extra virgin olive oil and sugar, then the flour. Begin to mix the ingredients and add salt. Knead the dough with your hands until a soft dough, elastic that comes off completely from your hands. After the mixing phase, dividetelo in 4 shares, formats 4 balls and place it in a container with a lid. Let stand for about an hour or until doubled in volume.

After the rising phase, roll out the balls with your fingertips, if you have no experience you can read our article that explains perfectly how to make the drafting of the balls of pizza.

After the drafting, add the tomatoes and slices of ham into small pieces. This is the time to add other ingredients to your liking, add the mozzarella.

Preheat your oven 200 degrees, bake your pizzas only when your oven is very hot. The cooking will take approximately 15 minutes, always depends on the type of oven you have at home. When the board will prove to be perfectly golden baked pizzas and serve hot.