How to Make Polenta Pizza Crust
You can change up your pizza game by using polenta for the crust and call it polenta pizza. It’s an easy dish loved by Italians. Polenta pizza requires cooking the polenta in the correct ratio of 3 to 1. That’s 3 cups of water to 1 cup of polenta. Cook it on the stovetop for a good long time, around 30 to 45 minutes. It should be soft. Next, spread it in a cast iron skillet, top it just like pizza and bake it at 375F for 15 minutes. That will give you a crust that’s soft on the inside, but firm enough to hold up when you slice into it.
From there, you top it how you want. Keep on reading and I’ll share with you my special Arizona inspired recipe for a Rustic Skillet Polenta Pizza.
What Inspired This Polenta Pizza?
The inspiration for this Rustic Skillet Polenta Pizza came from thinking about some of my favorite Arizona-made ingredients. My friend Michelle at Bite Magazine proposed the idea of putting together a box for purchase online that would contain ingredients to a recipe on my YouTube channel. So, I thought through some of my favorite ingredients and I knew I wanted to use Hayden Flour Mills’ polenta, AZ Bitters Lab bitters and something from GoLbSalt. What emerged after a quick brainstorm was this Rustic Skillet Polenta Pizza with bitters blistered shishito peppers, caramelized onions, fresh goat cheese and a tomato chili sauce. I really think you’re going to dig this one!
You can grab The Kitchen Kit that contains all of these specialty ingredients so you can cook along with me online!
It’s also special to be using Hayden Flour Mills because of the story behind their father/daughter business. In the video Emma Zimmerman from Hayden Flour Mills, shares the story of their business and why their polenta is so much better than the industrially milled stuff.
Cooking with Bitters
You might be looking at the ingredients and wondering what the heck bitters are doing in there. Yes, bitters are most commonly used in beverages and cocktails. But, I find that they’re a secret flavor weapon, adding unique complexity and richness to anything from vegetables to meats. The Mas Mole bittters from AZ Bitters Lab has the warm Mexican spices that I live for and do a great job of complimenting the vibrant shishito peppers and sweet caramelized onions.
And because no dish is complete without being properly seasoned, I wanted to include the Sel Gris from GoLbSalt. It’s a beautiful multipurpose salt with a clean flavor, adding a natural punch to all of the quality ingredients used in this recipe. They also carry a wide variety of specialty salts that can add unique flavor to all sorts of dishes.
If you pick up the Kitchen Kit, there’s enough to make not just one pizza, but at least two or three. Plus, you’ll have these special ingredients to experiment with in your own recipes. You know I love a chance to get creative in the kitchen.
*This Rustic Skillet Polenta Pizza is a part of a collaboration with Bite Magazine and their Kitchen Kit series. I do receive compensation from the purchase of The Kitchen Kit, but each product in the Kit was selected because I personally think they’re amazing.
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