The Skillet Potato Pizza is a tasty and easy-to-make recipe, a delicious main course with zucchini flowers, ham, and smoked cheese. A valid alternative to the classic potato gateau perfect for summer when it’s so hot that turning on the oven becomes difficult or even impossible. But it’s so good that we can prepare it all year round, changing the topping each time! It is a potato cake that is cooked directly in the skillet in just 10 minutes. A quick and practical preparation that can be conveniently made in advance because it’s also good cold, suitable for everyday cooking because it doesn’t need to rise as it’s yeast-free, to be accompanied by a seasonal side dish. But it’s perfect for many other occasions: from appetizers to aperitifs to a buffet.
The dough is very simple and closely resembles the classic potato gnocchi dough: mash the potatoes and add flour, one egg, and salt. Then spread the dough quickly worked with hands directly in the skillet, cook it first on one side covered over medium heat for 5 minutes, flip it and season with zucchini flowers flavored with oil, salt, and pepper, cooked ham and smoked cheese. Cook for another 5 minutes.
A soft base that lends itself to any type of topping! The cooked ham can indeed be replaced with other cold cuts like speck, salami, mortadella, turkey breast, or alternatively with slices of smoked salmon or tuna in oil. The same goes for the smoked cheese that we can replace with mozzarella, Emmental, provolone. And if we want to make a completely vegetarian version, besides zucchini flowers, we can use many types of grilled or boiled vegetables like zucchini, peppers, eggplants, mushrooms, broccoli, tomatoes, etc. You can start with the delicious recipe we recommend and then gradually experiment with new combinations that come to mind and you can suggest in the comments!
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very economical
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 4 people
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Spring, Summer, All seasons
Ingredients for Skillet Potato Pizza with Zucchini Flowers and Ham
- 1.1 lbs potatoes, with skin, cooked, boiled
- 1 cup flour
- 1 egg
- salt
- 10 zucchini flowers
- 5.3 oz cooked Prague ham
- 5.3 oz smoked scamorza cheese
- extra virgin olive oil
- salt
- pepper
Tools for Skillet Potato Pizza with Zucchini Flowers and Ham
- 1 Potato masher
- 1 Skillet
- 1 Stovetop
How to Prepare Skillet Potato Pizza with Zucchini Flowers and Ham
Prepare the Skillet Potato Pizza with Zucchini Flowers and Ham by first peeling the potatoes and mashing them with a potato masher to obtain a puree.
Collect the puree in a bowl or plate and add the egg and flour, adjusting the amount of the latter based on the consistency of the potatoes. You can add up to 1 cup of flour.
Mix the ingredients first with a fork, then knead with your hands until you get a firm and homogeneous dough. Adjust with salt.
Clean the zucchini flowers by removing the stem and internal pistil, quickly rinse them under cold water, and let them dry on a cloth.
Slice them into strips and season with oil, salt, and pepper.
Cut both the cooked ham and smoked scamorza cheese into pieces.
Lightly oil a non-stick pan of about 9.5 inches in diameter and spread the potato dough with floured hands, evenly covering the whole pan.
Cook the potato pizza for about 5 minutes, then, with the help of a lid or a plate, flip the pizza on the other side and cover it with the topping ingredients: washed zucchini flowers, ham, and cheese.
Continue cooking for another 5 minutes, then transfer the Skillet Potato Pizza with Zucchini Flowers and Ham to a serving plate and serve it, adding raw oil and chopped basil.
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You can store this potato pizza in the fridge in an airtight container for a couple of days.
For a completely gluten-free version, replace the flour with potato starch or rice flour.
