EASY AND DELICIOUS CHRISTMAS TREE PIZZA APPETIZER, perfect idea for both lunch and dinner, a tasty recipe that can be prepared in advance and frozen, or you can make it with puff pastry if you don’t have time to knead the dough.
The Christmas tree pizza is a perfect Christmas appetizer for the whole family; you prepare the leavened dough, make the pinwheels, and assemble the tree to bake.
Great filled pizza-style, a simple and economical way, but you can add other ingredients and prepare an even tastier tree pizza like cooked ham or speck.
Follow me in the kitchen today, there’s tree pizza.
- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Rest time: 6 Hours
- Preparation time: 30 Minutes
- Portions: 11
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Winter
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1.5 cups water
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp fresh yeast
- to taste tomato sauce
- 7 oz mozzarella cheese
Steps
Dissolve the yeast in the water, place the flour in a bowl, add the salt, mix, then add the water and knead well.
You can use a food processor if you prefer, form a ball and let it rest covered with plastic wrap until doubled, about 6 hours or overnight.
Once risen, roll out the dough on a floured surface and divide it into 11 strips; fill with a mixture of tomato sauce, oil, and salt.
Add sliced mozzarella and roll into pinwheels.
Place the first pinwheel at the top, then two below, three, four, and one in the center of the base.
Brush with oil, sprinkle with oregano, and let rest for 20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 356°F and bring it to temperature, then bake and cook for about 20 minutes.
Bon appétit
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You can fill it as you like, great with speck, salmon, or tuna, whatever you prefer.
