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| For dessert, a pizza grilled with Bing cherries, white chocolate, and mint. |
Bing-Cherry Pizza
James Distefano, davidburke &
donatella
Serves 6
Pizza Dough
(Also available at local pizzerias.) 1 packet dry yeast
1⁄2 teaspoon sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
Salt
1⁄4 cup canola oil
Cherry Topping
3 pints Bing cherries, halved and pitted
1⁄2 cup light brown sugar
Seeds of 1 vanilla bean
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1⁄8 teaspoon ground white pepper
Canola oil
2 tablespoons white chocolate, shaved into large curls
Fresh mint leaves
Pizza Dough
In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast and sugar in 3⁄4
cup warm water. Place the flour in the bowl of a food mixer
fitted with a dough hook, add the yeast mixture, and mix on
low speed for 1 to 2 minutes. Add a pinch of salt and the
canola oil, and continue mixing on low speed until a nice,
supple dough forms, about 3 to 5 minutes. If the dough looks
too wet, sprinkle in 1 more teaspoon of flour, and continue
mixing. Cover the bowl with a damp towel, and allow to rise
on the countertop until it has doubled in size, approximately
2 hours.
Cherry Topping
In a medium bowl, toss together the cherries, sugar, vanilla
seeds, lemon zest, and white pepper. Make a double-layer tinfoil
pouch, and place the cherry mixture inside, folding over the
edges to form a seal.
Set the pouch on a grill over medium heat, and cook for 5
to 7 minutes, until the cherries are soft.
TO ASSEMBLE
Cut the dough in half, and roll out each half on a flat, floured
surface to form a 12-inch-diameter round about 1⁄4 inch
thick. Brush both sides with oil. Move the coals to one side
of the grill, and when the fire is medium hot, place the rounds
over the coals. When the rounds start to puff up and take
on a little color, turn them over, and place on the coolest
part of the grill. Ladle half the cherry mixture onto each
pizza, and return to medium heat until the underside is cooked
but does not burn. Remove from the grill, sprinkle white-chocolate
shavings over each pizza, and top with scissor-s |
