Pizza Bible – New Yorker Pizza:

Anyone who has seen my pizza blog posts over the past year will know I am a massive fan of The Pizza Bible book by Tony Gemignani and most of my recent pizzas have used the same dough recipe from the front of the book every time. I took some time to read the book again recently and remembered there were loads of great recipes in there so thought I should start cooking some different dishes. Next up was Pizza Bible – New Yorker Pizza. In fact, this blog post has this recipe in twice because I wasn’t happy with it first time around!

The Book:

The dough and sauce recipe is from The Pizza Bible Book:

The Pizza Bible: The World's Favorite Pizza Styles, from Neapolitan, Deep-Dish, Wood-Fired, Sicilian, Calzones and Focaccia to New York, New Haven, Detroit, and More

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THE INGREDIENTS:

Flour: Caputo Red Flour 

Flour Caputo red "00" Pizza Chef kg 1 - Package 10 Pieces

£25.49 (£2.55 / kg) £13.54 (£1.35 / kg)

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Yeast: Saf-Levure Dry yeast 

Tomatoes: San Marzano Plum Tomatoes 

Zia Rosa San Marzano Plum Tomatoes 400 g (Pack of 12)

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THE KIT:

6 litre food grade container with lid: I use this to bulk ferment the dough once it’s mixed

Whitefurze Plastic Food Storage Canister with Handle 6.0L

£6.90

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Food grade pizza dough trays (x3): I use these to cold proof the dough balls

7 Litre Plastic Stacking Food Grade Domestic Commercial Pizza Dough Bakery Euro Trays – 400 x 300 x 75mm Stackable HDPE Dough Proofing Proof Containers (3)

£23.25

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Wooden Pizza Peel: Stops your pizza sticking when you launch it into the oven, needs minimal flour also. I wish I had bought one of these years ago as it’s a total game changer.

Argon Tableware 12 x 13" Traditional Wooden Pizza Peel - 56cm Professional Pizza Paddle

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The Dough:

The Sauce:

New York – New Jersey Tomato Sauce from The Pizza Bible book. The San Marzano tomatoes, tomato puree, oregano, salt and oil blitzed with a hand blender then hand crushed tomatoes were also added. 

The Fire:

Oxford Charcoal Beech Lumpwood, 2 flamers underneath, lit and left for 10 minutes. I take my dough out the fridge when I light my fire, not as long at room temperature as most people but I find the cooler dough easier to stretch and shape plus it helps with the leoparding.

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Two beech chunks on top of the lit charcoal:

Smoking Wood Chunks Beech - Kiln Dried Wood in Small Chunks for Smoking Food on BBQ’s. Large 9KG / 25 Litre Box - Fast Delivery (Beech)

£19.95

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The Prep:

The Cook:

Pizza one: The kids wanted Chorizo this time as the pepperoni was too spicy for them! Sausage meat looks a lot better though.

Pizza two: More chorizo.

Pizza three: Pepperoni time, no ricotta though – think we had run out!

Pizza four: My one

Pizza five: The spare, loads of garlic oil on this one.

SUMMARY:

I really enjoyed the New Yorker Pizzas. Such a great tasting pizza and one I will be cooking more often! The dough and sauce were the usual ones I make from The Pizza Bible book and were as good as always. The 2nd run was better due to cooking the sausage meat up a bit first before putting it on the pizza. I will do the same in future for any fairly big bits of raw meat like this.

The week after I cooked this I happened to be in San Francisco, what restaurant was near my hotel?

I had to go in! I was going to get the New Yorker to see how the expert cooked it but I went for a Margherita – the menu explains why:

And here it is. Wow, it was so good and I took some notes for my own pizzas – Thinner base, thicker sauce and better cheese!

THE BOOK:

The dough and sauce recipe is from The Pizza Bible book:

The Pizza Bible: The World's Favorite Pizza Styles, from Neapolitan, Deep-Dish, Wood-Fired, Sicilian, Calzones and Focaccia to New York, New Haven, Detroit, and More

£16.19 £9.99 (as of September 21, 2020 - More infoProduct prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.)

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