Italian Pizza Recipes - Four-seasons Pizza (Pizza alle Quattro Stagioni) Recipe

Ingredients       

• 1 quantity Basic Pizza Dough

• 100 ml/6 1/2 tbsp passata (sieved tomatoes)

• 50 g/2 oz button mushrooms, sliced

• 100 g/4 oz Mozzarella cheese, chopped

• 60 ml/4 tbsp olive oil

• 2 thin slices prosciutto, chopped

• 1 small garlic clove, finely chopped

• 15 ml/1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley

• 1.5 ml/1/4 tsp dried oregano

• 85 g/3 1/2 oz/1 small can tuna, drained

• 2 black olives, sliced

• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

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Method:

1. Prepare the pizza dough. Spread the risen pizza base with the passata to within 2 cm/3/4 in of the edge all round.

2. Mark the pizza into quarters with the back of a knife. Cover one quarter with the sliced mushrooms.

3. Top with half the Mozzarella and drizzle with 15 ml/1 tbsp olive oil. Cover the opposite quarter with the prosciutto and the remaining cheese.

4. Drizzle with a further 15ml/1 tbsp of the oil. Sprinkle the third quarter with the garlic, parsley and oregano and drizzle with half the remaining oil.

5. Flake the tuna and use to cover the last quarter. Sprinkle with the olives and drizzle with the remaining oil.

6. Sprinkle all over with a little salt and a good grinding of pepper and bake in a preheated oven at 230°C/450°F/gas mark 8 for about 15 minutes until golden and sizzling. Serve straight away.

Note: You can ring the changes with other toppings on each quarter if you prefer.