Beef & Blue Cheese Pizza
 
 
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Ingredients
  • Pizza Dough:*
  • 1⅓ cups warm water
  • 2¼ tsp instant yeast
  • 3¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 Tbsp sugar
  • 1 Tbsp salt
  • 2 Tbsp olive oil
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  • Beef:
  • 500 g ground beef
  • 1 Tbsp ketchup
  • 1 Tbsp Franks Red Hot (or more...)
  • 1 tsp Worchestershire Sauce
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  • Blue Cheese Drizzle:
  • ½ cup plain yogurt (not thick Greek yogurt)
  • ¼ cup blue cheese, crumbled
  • ½ tsp Dijon mustard
  • ½ lemon, juice
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  • Coarse semolina, to dust
  • ½ cup cheddar cheese, grated
  • 2 Tbsp fresh chives or green onions, chopped
Instructions
  1. To make dough: Preheat oven to 200°F. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook, combine water and yeast and let sit for 5 minutes until yeast has dissolved and mixture is frothy. Add in flour, sugar, salt, and olive oil; knead on a low speed for 5-10 minutes until dough has formed. It should be elastic and pull away from the sides of the bowl. Transfer dough to a lightly oiled bowl; cover with aluminum foil, and place bowl in the oven. TURN OVEN OFF. Let the dough rise in the warm oven for about 2 hours until it has doubled in size. Divide into two balls of dough, then use one for the remainder of this recipe. (Prepare another pizza with the second ball of dough, or store in the fridge for another night.)
  2. Remove dough from oven, place a pizza stone or heavy baking sheet into the oven. Crank the heat on the oven up to 500 degrees. Let the stone heat for at least 30 minutes in the oven.
  3. Brown ground beef in a dry pan over medium-high heat. Drain off liquid. Add ketchup, Franks and Worchestershire Sauce and stir to coat. Set aside.
  4. Using a blender or immersion blender, whiz together all the drizzle ingredients.
  5. Dust a flat surface with some coarse semolina and stretch out the portion of pizza dough you will be using. Take the heated pizza stone/tray out of the oven and transfer the dough directly on to it. This will cause the dough to start cooking right away, ensuring a nice and crispy crust.
  6. Spread the beef out onto the crust in an even layer. Top with a sprinkle of cheddar. Bake for 8-12 minutes, until the cheese is melted and the crust is lightly browned.
  7. Remove from oven, top with blue cheese drizzle and sprinkle with fresh chives.
Notes
*Or your favourite store bought dough/crust. This pizza dough recipe is my favourite recipe, and it makes enough for two or three 12 inch pizzas, depending on how thin you like your crust. Once the dough has risen, simply divide it in half, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until ready to use.
Recipe by Port and Fin at https://portandfin.com/beef-blue-cheese-pizza/