The Best Pizza Oven Recipe Isn't Pizza

mozzarella cheese

🥗Healthier: part-skim mozzarella

💰Cheaper: cheddar cheese

Part-skim mozzarella reduces fat while maintaining flavor.

cured meats

🥗Healthier: grilled chicken

💰Cheaper: ham

Grilled chicken provides lean protein, while ham is more affordable.

olive oil

🥗Healthier: avocado oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Avocado oil offers a similar flavor with a higher smoke point.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grana padano

Nutritional yeast is lower in calories and provides a cheesy flavor.

Acquire some pizza dough.

Make a big long blob instead of stretching it into a circle.

Make the work surface nonstick with bread flour, semolina, or blue corn masa harina.

Lay down the dough and drizzle a little olive oil on top.

Use fingertips to stretch the dough out gently.

Aim for a vaguely loaf-shaped hunk of dough, about 13 inches wide for the Gozney Roccbox oven.

Preheat the pizza oven to around 700 degrees F with the flame turned down to low.

Slide the dough into the oven and prepare to turn it around after about two minutes.

After two minutes, check if the dough has bubbled up, risen, and charred, then take it out of the oven.

Use a bread knife or clean kitchen shears to bisect the baked panuozzo.

If for personal use, let the panuozzo cool to room temp, then freeze in a plastic bag for future use.

If for a party, bake all panuozzo before guests arrive and set out trays of build-your-own fillings.

Slide the assembled panuozzo back into the oven for about 90 seconds to melt cheese and meld flavors.

Finish with any optional cold fillings, then smush into sandwich form.

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