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Roasted Mushroom Pizza with Fontina and Scallions
Heating the oven and pizza steel or stone to 550°F takes about an hour. We use this time to roast portobello mushrooms, which we combine with our fontina-Parmesan cream white sauce. The mushrooms also can be prepped up to 24 hours ahead and refrigerated. When shaping the pizza dough, make sure that the edges are thicker than the center so they contain the cream sauce, which becomes runny during baking. For a crisp, well-browned bottom crust. If your oven only goes to 500°F, the pizza will need to bake for an extra two minutes.
1
12-inch pizza
Tip
Don’t undercook the mushrooms. Roasting them until well browned removes moisture that would otherwise make the pizza crust soggy.
35 minutes
plus heating
Ingredients
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1
pound portobello mushroom caps
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⅓
cup extra-virgin olive oil
Directions
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01At least 1 hour before baking, heat the oven to 550°F with a baking steel or stone on the upper-middle rack and a second rack in the lower-middle.
Reviews
March 4, 2024
So good!
Used a store-bought whole-wheat dough (which was too large but that's another story), and otherwise followed the recipe as written and added some potato slices too. A+, flavor was great, the mushrooms were divine.
June 25, 2023
Question on Dough Portioning in attached Recipe
The pizza dough recipe attached says to divide the dough into four pieces. Does this recipe call for one of the four dough balls or should the dough in the attached recipe not be divided into four pieces and the whole amount of dough should be used in this recipe?
June 6, 2023
Preheat alternatives?
The thought of having my oven on for over an hour at 550 makes me sweat. Can I preheat my Baking Steel on the gas stove? I do have an IR thermometer to check temp of steel.
June 16, 2025
Artisan flavors are divine, but the instructions . . .
As indicated, the flavor of both the cream sauce and the mushrooms are next level. I make pizza every Sunday after doing the gourmet thing on Saturday, and this one was amazing. Scored on flavor alone this recipe is five stars all the way. Dinged one star because, at least in my kitchen with good equipment, I found the instructions on the mushrooms and the sauce wide of the mark. I would have had mushroom potato chips if I even approached those times, and I had to go well past medium on the mixer setting to get stiff peaks. Use you're judgment on those things, and you will not be disappointed!
October 7, 2023
My oven only goes to 500
What do I do if my oven only goes to 500?
Hi Heather -
You can use cremini mushrooms. You can decide if you want to use the stems or not, but I would definitely leave the mushrooms whole (as opposed to cutting in half like we describe for the portobellos in the recipe). The creminis will probably cook faster so I'd definitely start checking them early. Good luck!
Best,
The Milk Street Team
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Could crimini mushrooms be substituted for the portobello mushrooms?