Spinach And Ricotta Pizza

Total Time: 58 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 13 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 15 ounces pizza dough, at room temperature (new york-style pizza dough)
• unbleached bread flour, for dusting
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1/2 cup pizza sauce (new york-style pizza sauce)
• 1/2 tablespoon freshly grated parmesan cheese
• 1 1/2 cups lightly packed fresh spinach leaves, torn into large pieces
• 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh garlic
• 2 cups coarsely shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1/3 cup whole milk ricotta cheese
• 1 ripe tomato, cored and thinly sliced

Recipe

• 1 position an oven rack on the 2nd-lowest level in the oven; place a baking stone on the rack; position another rack in the upper third of the oven; preheat oven to 500°.
• 2 coat a 12-inch pizza screen or perforated pizza pan with cooking spray.
• 3 lightly dust pizza dough with flour; lay dough in prepared pan and gently stretch into a 12-inch round.
• 4 top the pizza: brush the dough with 1 tablespoons olive oil.
• 5 spread the pizza sauce evenly over dough, leaving a ¼-inch border.
• 6 sprinkle the parmesan over the top; distribute the spinach evenly over the top and sprinkle garlic over the spinach.
• 7 cover the spinach with the mozzarella.
• 8 using a teaspoon, arrange little globs of ricotta evenly over the top.
• 9 drizzle with the remaining 1 tablespoons olive oil.
• 10 place pizza in oven on the upper rack.
• 11 bake 10 minutes, until crust is crisp and golden brown.
• 12 using a pizza peel, lift pizza off the pan and place the crust directly on the baking stone; remove pizza pan from oven.
• 13 bake about 3 more minutes, until bottom of crust is golden brown.
• 14 using the peel, remove the pizza from the oven and transfer to a cutting board.
• 15 arrange tomato slices over the top; slice and serve.