Oyster Mushroom Pizza
Ingredients
2 servings
- Base
- Pizza dough 400 g
- Olive oil 2-4 tbsp plus a little for the pan
- Topping
- Oyster mushrooms 400 g
- Tomatoes 2
- Mozzarella 150 g
- Parmesan 50 g
- Garlic 1-2 cloves
- Basil 5-6 sprigs
- Capers to taste
- Seasonings
- Sugar 1 tsp (5 g)
- Salt, pepper to taste
- Dried oregano a couple of pinches
Step-by-step recipe
Dough and oyster mushrooms
Make the dough. I’ve given the pizza dough recipe many times: “Pizza dough“.
Lightly grease the pan with olive oil and lay the dough in it. Be sure to prick the dough with a fork in several places.
Prepare the oyster mushrooms: be sure to sort through them, removing damaged parts and leftover growing substrate. Cut off the stems with a knife, roughly up to the start of the cap. Put the mushrooms in a bowl and cover with boiling water for 10-15 minutes. This makes them softer. Then drain the water.
Heat 1-2 tbsp olive oil in a skillet and fry the oyster mushrooms over high heat, stirring constantly, until they start to brown.
Don’t put the oyster mushrooms on the pizza raw: fried, they become remarkably tasty.
Sauce and cheese mixture
Scald the tomatoes with boiling water and peel them. Cut one tomato into very thin slices.
Make the sauce. Remove the seeds from the second tomato and blend it with 1 tsp sugar (5 g). Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour the mixture into a hot skillet with 1-2 tbsp olive oil and simmer over medium heat until the sauce thickens.
Grate the Parmesan, add green basil leaves and the garlic. Blend until finely chopped.
You should get an almost dry mixture of a pleasant green color.
Assembling and baking
Spread tomato sauce over the dough in the pan. Sprinkle with a couple of pinches of dried oregano.
Grate the mozzarella over the dough on the coarsest side of the grater, or slice it into very thin slices with a knife. Spread it evenly over the pizza.
Arrange the whole fried oyster mushroom caps and the tomato slices.
Sprinkle the pizza generously with the Parmesan and basil mixture. Mushroom pizza usually gets mozzarella on top, but this time we changed the order to get a Parmesan crust. Finally, add the capers to the pizza, spreading them evenly.
Put the pizza in an oven preheated to 180°C. Mushroom pizza bakes for up to 20 minutes. Be sure to check that the dough is done (the edges should turn golden), and if needed, add a few more minutes.
Serving
Top the finished pizza with fresh green basil leaves to make the mushroom pizza look elegant and almost festive.
Cut the pizza into 6-8 slices with a pizza wheel.
Mushroom pizza is served hot.
Calories and macros
1100 kcal
Serving ≈ 580 g
- Protein46 g17% of kcal
- Fat53 g44% of kcal
- Carbs105 g39% of kcal
100 g191 kcalProtein 8 gFat 9.2 gCarbs 18.2 g
Calculated from the recipe ingredients, excluding salt and spices. Data: USDA and Matvaretabellen.