Date, Prosciutto & Cheese Pizza

• porciones: 3 servings

Ingredientes

1 ball of pizza dough, about 250 grams

1 cup chopped pitted dates

1/4 cup ricotta cheese

1 tablespoon soft goat cheese

1 tablespoon feta crumbles

1 tablespoon Pecorino Roman cheese, grated

3 slices Prosciutto di Parma, torn into pieces. Or 3 bacon rashers (see note.)

1 sprig rosemary

1 tablespoon olive oil, plus extra

1/2 teaspoon freshly grated orange zest, plus more for top

Maldon flaky salt

red pepper flakes

Instrucciones

Set oven rack to upper third. Place baking steel or a heavy sheet pan on rack. Heat oven to 550 degrees F.

Sprinkle some flour and/or fine cornmeal on a pizza peel or parchment-lined baking sheet and form the pizza into a round or an oval or whatever shape it happens to want to take. If the dough doesn't cooperate, let it sit at room temperature for 5 minutes or so, covered, to relax. Have a drink while you wait, to relax. Drizzle olive oil on top and spread it gently with your fingertips all over the dough. Cover lightly with plastic wrap, place a kitchen towel over, and let rest at room temperature until you are ready to build the pizza.

Toss dates with olive oil. Mix ricotta, orange zest and goat cheese together.

Slide plain pizza onto the baking steel or the hot sheet pan and bake for about 4 minutes, until top is very lightly golden in spots, and no longer raw. Remove from oven. Switch to broiler setting. Spread ricotta mixture on pizza. Scatter dates, rosemary, feta crumbles and prosciutto over the top. Return the pizza to the oven. With the oven door ajar, broil the pizza for a few minutes until the prosciutto crisps.

Remove the pizza, drizzle with a little olive oil, runny honey, and a sprinkle of red pepper flakes and Maldon flaky salt. Grate a little more Pecorino and orange zest over the top.