A puff pastry pizza with artichokes can be a great dinner idea when you want to combine pastry and vegetables and turn them into a delicious dish. This artichokes flaky pizza from Bari is also a great alternative to your weekend pizza, when you feel you need a change. Plus, it makes a great appetizer to serve at parties and dinners you might be hosting.
What to expect: bite into the flaky butter puff pastry and immediately taste the cheesy and creamy filling. It’s savoury, flavourful but delicate and balanced. Every bite requests another one :).
Is Puff Pastry the same as Pizza Dough?
Puff pastry is a kind of pastry that uses a lot of butter, while the classic pizza dough is done with water, flour and yeast. The two are not the same, but you can use puff pastry to make your favourite pizza. Just be careful if you are using wet ingredients, as the botton might get soggy.
If you’ve stumbled upon this post by mistake, and would like to make a regular pizza dough, we have plenty on this blog. Here are a few:
- No Yeast Pizza Dough
- Quick Rising Pizza Dough with yeast
How Do You Make Puff Pastry Bottom Not Soggy?
Puff pastry is generally more difficult to cook than brisée pastry, pizza or focaccia dough. That’s because it’s more delicate, light and fluffy, which are the best characteristics of this pastry. So the extra work for cooking it right is in my opinion worth the while.
Here are the various things you can do to avoid your puff pastry being soggy:
- Remove it from the parchment paper it comes with and put it on a clean sheet of parchment paper
- Blind cook the bottom of your puff pastry pie without any ingredients. To do this simply bake the bottom of your pie/pizza/tart without ingredients. You can put holes in the pastry with a fork, and even use pie weights. All it takes is 10 minutes.
- Put your driest ingredient at the bottom or create a barrier using breadcrumbs as the first layer.
- Start by cooking your pie at the bottom of the oven. Then move it to the top towards the end.
- Avoid using very wet ingredients, or ingredients that release a lot of water while cooking.
Puff Pastry Pizza Recipe from Bari
Here’s our delicious Apulian puff pastry pizza recipe with the full step by step recipe and ingredients list.
The key ingredient in this recipe is our Belmorso Artichokes.
Let us know in the comments how you like it.
Puff Pastry Pizza with Artichokes
Equipment
- 1 garlic presser
- 1 pan
- 1 bowl
- 1 fork
- 1 silicone spoon
- 1 baking dish
- 1 knife
- 1 grater
- 1 tablespoon
Ingredients
- 1 roll puff pastry
- 1 jar Grandmother’s Recipe Wedged Artichokes
- 1 medium garlic clove
- 2 medium eggs
- salt and pepper
- 1 tbsp pecorino cheese grated for the egg mixture
- 2 tbsp breadcrumbs or 3
- more pecorino cheese grated for topping
- 100 gr mozzarella cheese block
Instructions
- Mince the garlic, roughly with your knife or using a garlic presser.
- Crack the eggs in a bowl, season and add the parsley.
- Add 1 tablespoon grated pecorino cheese and beat well.
- Prepare your sheet of pastry in a baking dish, and pre bake it without the ingredients. You can add some beans or pie weights so it doesn't puff up, or you can simply release the puffs air with a fork, when you take it out of the oven. I rolled the edges before baking it to create a nice border.
- Sauté the artichokes with the prepared garlic to further release the flavours.
- Add the egg mixture to cook with the artichokes and garlic, and lower the heat.
- Your puff pastry should be out of the oven after 10 minutes. You can now start adding the filling.
- The first ingredient we want to add is the breadcrumbs. That will help absorb any liquid from the other ingredients, and reduce the wetness that sometimes happens on the bottom.
- Next add slices of mozzarella cheese until you've covered all the pie.
- Now, you can add the artichokes and eggs mixture you cooked in the pan. By now, it should be a little cooler and also firmer.
- Top with any leftover sliced mozzarella cheese.
- Finish with some grated pecorino on top.
- Bake it in the oven for at least 40 minutes, at 180 degrees Celsius. Don't let the top get burnt; for that you can cook it at a lower level and then transfer it to the top of the oven towards the end of the baking time.
- When it's done, let it rest and cool. Then slice it into 2 or 4 and enjoy with a salad. Buon appetito.
Notes
Can You Reheat Puff pastry Pizza?
Yes, you can reheat puff pastry pizza and any other dishes you make with it. However, it needs to be done in the oven. Microwave don’t work well with pastries or bread; they either make them too soft or dry them out.
To reheat your puff pastry pizza, simply place it in a pre-heated oven for 10 minutes.
Other Italian Recipes with Artichokes
Whether you have a lot of artichokes growing in your garden, or really love them and want to cook more with them, here are two tasty Italian recipes featuring this lovely vegetable.
