Best Popeye Pizza Recipes

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SPINACH AND THREE-CHEESE PIZZA



Spinach and Three-Cheese Pizza image

Fresh mint is sprinkled on at the end along with a squeeze of lemon juice, brightening up this classic pizza combination. Martha made this recipe on Martha Bakes episode 608.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Lunch Recipes

Yield Makes four 12-inch pizzas

Number Of Ingredients 10

Martha's Pizza Dough
4 ounces Gruyere cheese, grated
2 ounces young pecorino cheese, finely grated
8 ounces buffalo mozzarella cheese, torn into 2-inch pieces
6 ounces fresh spinach, stems removed
2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
Freshly ground black pepper
Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
1 tablespoon thinly sliced fresh mint leaves
Lemon wedges, for serving

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 550 degrees (or highest temperature) with a pizza stone placed on lowest rack for at least 30 minutes. Top a pizza peel with parchment paper.
  • Working with one piece of dough, flatten dough into a disk that is thicker in the center than at the edges. Using your fingers, gently pull on the edges of the dough to form a 12-inch circle; dough should still be thicker in the center. Transfer dough to prepared pizza peel.
  • Top dough with one-quarter of the cheeses, spinach, and sliced garlic. Season with pepper and drizzle with olive oil.
  • Transfer pizza along with parchment paper to pizza stone and bake until spinach is wilted and slightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes.
  • Using pizza peel, remove pizza from oven and top with one-quarter of the mint. Serve with lemon wedges. Repeat process with remaining dough and toppings.

POPEYE PIE



Popeye Pie image

This pizza is one of my most popular dishes, a kind of warm spinach salad on a crust. I've been serving it since the earliest days at Sullivan Street (its origins-how I came to make it-are now lost in the mists of memory). But, even today, to the best of my knowledge, I'm the only one who offers it. Try it at home, and right after that first bite, you'll see why it's one of the most popular pies I've ever devised. When I make the Popeye in my home kitchen, I deviate from the usual system in this book and bake it (as called for here) rather than placing it under the broiler. The image of that mound of spinach directly under flame just seems wrong-I'm not even sure what would happen, but it wouldn't be good.

Provided by Jim Lahey

Yield Makes one 10- to 12-inch pizza

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 ball of Pizza Dough, shaped and waiting on a floured peel
1 medium garlic clove, grated
30 grams (about 1 ounce) pecorino fresco, cut into 1-inch cubes and slightly flattened by pressing between thumb and index finger
18 grams (1/3 cup) finely grated Gruyère cheese
50 grams (about 1 3/4 ounces) fresh mozzarella, pulled into shreds
2 pinches of freshly ground black pepper
120 grams (about 4 1/4 ounces) fresh spinach
Generous pinch of fine sea salt
Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling

Steps:

  • 1 Place the pizza stone in a gas oven on the middle rack. Preheat the oven on bake at 500°F for 30 minutes. Switch to broil for 10 minutes and then back to bake at 500°F. (For an electric variation, see Cooks' Note.)
  • 2 With the dough on the peel, sprinkle the surface evenly with the garlic. Distribute the pecorino, Gruyère, and mozzarella evenly over the dough. Sprinkle evenly with pepper.
  • 3 With quick, jerking motions, slide the pie onto the stone. Bake for 2 minutes.
  • 4 Pull the rack partially out of the oven. Quickly add the spinach in what will look like a big mound (the spinach will reduce, the mound flattening, as spinach always does when it cooks). Sprinkle evenly with salt. Return the pie to the oven for 3 1/2 to 4 minutes in a gas oven (somewhat longer with an electric oven; see Cooks' Note), until the crust is charred in spots, but not as deeply as with the other pizzas in this book.
  • 5 Using the peel, transfer the pizza to a tray or serving platter. Drizzle evenly with oil. Slice and serve immediately.

JIM LAHEY'S NO-KNEAD PIZZA MARGHERITA



Jim Lahey's No-Knead Pizza Margherita image

This is a great recipe for a simple, thin crust pizza. It's from Jim Lahey (of no-knead bread fame) who now runs a popular NYC pizzeria called Co. The recipe was printed in New York Magazine (Jul 12, 2009). If you don't have a pizza stone, this works well in a cast iron skillet. The recipe requires very little time and effort but the dough must be started the day before.

Provided by blucoat

Categories     Lunch/Snacks

Time 36m

Yield 3-4 10-inch pizzas

Number Of Ingredients 12

3 cups all-purpose flour or 3 cups bread flour, more for dusting
1/4 teaspoon instant yeast
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 1/4 cups water
1 vine-ripened tomatoes (about 5 oz.) or 1 heirloom tomato (about 5 oz.)
1 pinch salt
1/4 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
5 tablespoons tomato sauce
2 ounces buffalo mozzarella (about 1/4 ball)
basil leaves
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
salt

Steps:

  • To make dough: In a large bowl, mix the flour, yeast, and salt. Add water and stir until blended (the dough will be very sticky). Cover with plastic wrap and let rest for 12 to 24 hours in a warm spot, about 70 degrees.
  • Place the dough on a lightly floured work surface and sprinkle the top with flour. Fold the dough over on itself once or twice, cover loosely with plastic wrap, and let rest for 15 minutes.
  • Shape the dough into 3 or 4 balls, depending on how thick you want the crust. Generously sprinkle a clean cotton towel with flour and cover the dough with it. Let the dough rise for 2 hours.
  • To make sauce: Blanch tomato for 5 seconds in boiling water and quickly remove. Allow to cool to the touch. Peel the skin with your hands and quarter the tomato. Remove the jelly and seeds, and reserve in a strainer or fine sieve. Strain the jelly to remove seeds, and combine resulting liquid in a bowl with the flesh of the tomatoes. Proceed to crush the tomatoes with your hands. Add salt and olive oil and stir.
  • To make pizza: Place pizza stone on the middle rack of the oven and preheat on high broil. Stretch or toss the dough into a disk approximately 10 inches in diameter. Pull rack out of oven and place the dough on top of the preheated pizza stone. Drizzle 5 generous tablespoons of sauce over the dough, and spread evenly. Try to keep the sauce about ½ inch away from the perimeter of the dough. Break apart or slice the buffalo mozzarella and arrange over the dough. Return rack and pizza stone to the middle of the oven and broil for approximately 6 minutes. Remove and top with basil, olive oil, and salt.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 569.4, Fat 10.5, SaturatedFat 3.4, Cholesterol 15, Sodium 1472, Carbohydrate 98.9, Fiber 4.3, Sugar 2.7, Protein 17.9

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