Are you considering how best to pass the evening? Rather, call your friends-comrades to your home! And in order to surely lure them, promise as a meal a fine Italian dish. Pizza with tuna accompanied by a good white or pink wine - and the success of the company and leisure is guaranteed!
The mood of the dish
Making real pizza brings back memories of the narrow streets of Rome, the warm wind and the wonderful smell of a nearby small cafe. Well, not memories, because not everyone has been to Rome. But Italian delicious food and its aroma cannot be confused with anything. And if you suddenly wanted to feel the warmth of the Mediterranean coast, then pizza with tuna according to the Italian recipe will spoil you with warm impressions. Cooking it is incredibly simple, but the result will be amazing!
Some features
Of course, all pizza starts with the dough. On what else does the taste of this favorite dish depend on in the first place? It’s high time to learn how to make yeast-free dough, as it is rolled in pizzerias. But why exactly without them? And because Italians themselves almost always do this. Of course, a different dough is being prepared for the Pizza with Tuna dish, for example, classic dough on water or kefir. Someone will add sour cream or butter, and the dough will turn out crispy. With cottage cheese, it will simply melt in your mouth, and if you put a bit of mashed potato, it will not become stale for a long time.
Rules for making delicious pizza
Pizza with tuna is not too complicated baking. But before you build the dough, you need to provide for something:
- Flour should be of the highest grade, from durum wheat varieties.
- It is necessary to knead the dough in warm rooms, avoiding drafts.
- When baking, the main thing is not to overdo it; 15 minutes in the oven is quite enough if it has previously been heated to one hundred and eighty degrees. Otherwise, the pizza will turn out to be “wooden”.
And one more thing: it’s quite convenient that a pre-made dough can be put in the freezer. When you need to cook, it will always be at hand.
Thin pizza dough without yeast. Recipe
We will need: 2 cups of sifted “hard” flour, half a cup of warm flour, degrees 30, milk, 2 eggs, a little salt, a few tablespoons of vegetable oil (it is best to take olive, but you can do something else).
- Whisk the heated milk with eggs and butter with a mixer (this speeds up the process). Mix flour and salt in a separate bowl. In a loose mixture, you need to make a small funnel and gradually pour the resulting liquid into it, gradually kneading the pizza dough without yeast (thin). The recipe, as we see, is very simple to implement.
- Next, we knead manually: while in skillful pens there will not be a smooth ball of elastic dough. After 10 minutes, cover this mass with a slightly damp towel or cotton napkin.
- Roll out the dough into thin round cakes. Everything, you can begin to fill the dish with filling.
Sour cream test option
We will need: a couple glasses of durum wheat flour, one glass of homemade sour cream (you can replace it with a store sour cream, but the fat content should be at least 20%), a piece of butter, two eggs, a bit of baking soda.
- Beat eggs in a bowl and salt.
- In another bowl, mix the sour cream with soda.
- We combine all the ingredients together.
- Add melted butter (in the microwave, in a water bath - anyway) to the total mass.
- Little by little, we begin to introduce flour, kneading our dough sour in a deep bowl with our hands. Step by step, it becomes softer and more pliable. In the finale, let him lie down for 10 minutes and roll into thin cakes.
Yeast pizza
The base can also be prepared using yeast. To do this is as simple as without them. We need: a couple of glasses of flour, fifty grams of fresh yeast (you can replace a bag of dry), a spoonful of sugar and salt, half a glass of olive oil, warm water.
- In a large bowl, mix yeast and flour diluted with warm water, salt and sugar, butter and water.
- Knead the dough by hand until elastic. Then we put the ready-made again in a bowl, cover with a towel and leave it warm for about an hour.
- During this time, the dough rises. We divide it into two parts and crush it. And then we roll it into thin layers (thickness less than 1 centimeter), put on a baking sheet and grease with vegetable oil. Our yeast pizza has a base!
What's next?
Well, our dough is ready. How to cook pizza with tuna in the future? The recipe for its preparation is very easy! It is taken: a tomato paste in the amount of a couple of large spoons (you can also use ketchup neutral), mozzarella cheese - one hundred grams, any soft cheese - 50 grams, a can of tinned tuna in its own juice, a can of olives, a couple of fresh tomatoes.
- Grease the dough with tomato paste or ketchup (you can add some Italian dried herbs there).
- We take the tuna from the can and knead with a fork, evenly spread out on the basis. Add half rings of red onion on top. In principle, other ingredients can be added at this stage. For example, olives and slices of fresh tomatoes.
- Squeeze the mozzarella cheese and tear it into pieces. They need to be evenly distributed over the base.
- Sprinkle some more shabby cheese on top, any soft variety.
- We put the food in the oven heated to 180 and bake for 10 minutes. It is good to use blowing, if available in the oven. Pizza with tuna ready!
More about the filling
Fried tuna as a filling also has a right to exist. It's simple: we will use all other ingredients, as in the previous recipe. We choose the basis to taste: yeast or without yeast. But the main filling is prepared in a different way.
- Before frying, fresh tuna fillet must be marinated. If soy sauce is included in the ingredients of your marinade, do not salt the fish. Otherwise, rub the pieces with salt and a little pepper.
- Then we fry tuna in hot hot oil (3 minutes on each side) to gold. Pieces should be cut no thicker than 3 cm, so that the fish is steamed well.
- We determine readiness by piercing a piece with a fork: if it is slightly stratified, but pink inside, then the fried tuna is ready. We remove the fish from the pan, let it cool and use it as an excellent filling for pizza.
Enjoy your meal!