Second slice of some home made boboli pizza
- Sautée some garlic in olive oil, and cook some cubed chicken in the garlic
- Add a small can of tomato paste and about 1/2 cup of milk…yes, milk
- Stir it up while adding spices: italian spice blend, onion powder, cracked pepper, some crushed red pepper and hot shot to taste
— No need for added salt, the cheese you’re about to add has plenty…see below
- Grate in some parmesan-reggiano cheese as it cooks; we use well over 1/2 a pound for a large pizza
- Add in more crushed garlic as it cooks too…and just as it thickens up, I like to add in quite a bit of tarragon for a very aromatic sauce
While the sauce thickens, throw the boboli bread in the oven… 450F for ~6 minutes gets it crisp, but not too crisp
You have to stir the sauce constantly…almost like making risotto. I adjust the heat up and down as needed to melt the cheese as I grate it into the sauce. You can add more milk if it thickens too fast too.
Once the bread/pizza crust comes out of the oven, and the sauce is thick enough to spoon on, pile it on.
Add some cheese on top and toss it back into the oven long enough to melt the cheese; 2-3 minutes is usually plenty.
We usually put some sliced provolone on top, but tonight just sliced up some buffalo mozzarella…a little bland for my taste, but still damn good. The sauce flavors stood out a lot more this way too.