And always eat pizza
"When you are drinking it, it has a very good flavor and freshness, when you have taken it is very light and when a few hours have passed you are remembering it to take it again". This is what the perfect pizza for Rodríguez consists of. "The good products, that are fresh and quality" give it that premium touch.
And he speaks with knowledge of the facts, the one that gives him years of research in his laboratory of Alcalá de Henare s, where they analyze and study the quality of the proteins and amino acids of the different flours on the market, in search of a pizza with a good balance. That is, have a good protein that "it is the gluten so that the gluten mesh can have its consistency, which very little yeast hold between 72 and 96 hours and that it's practically air when the customer eats it", explains the chef.
"If you work with one or more quality flours, you realize that a good pizza in 15 or 20 minutes has disappeared from your stomach and that will be the first thing that the customer who comes to try the pizza" at Francesco's _(Calle Fuencarral, 57. Mercado de San Ildefonso) _ will be able to verify. All this accompanied by a quality raw material and with a clear intention to going off the beaten path for italian pizza and orient towards new york style . The one that, preserving the goodness of the recipe from the country of the boot, does not hesitate to innovate ingredients that are added to the dough: katsobushi, chili filaments, grated lime, coriander mix, basil...
As if to show a button, we prepared with Fran Rodríguez his favorite pizza:
PIZZA DOLCE
Ingredients for a dough for four people:
- 1 kilogram of flour
- 500 grams of water
- 5 grams of yeast
- 2.4 grams of salt
- 3 grams of olive oil
Ingredients for the seasoning:
- Olive oil
- Tomatoes
- Mozzarella
- Honey
- Mustard seeds
- baby spinach
- Goat cheese
- Cherry tomatoes
Preparation:
1. Mix the ingredients for the dough, then divide into four.
two. Let ferment for 24 hours in the fridge.
3. Two hours before putting it in the oven, remove it to room temperature so that the ball takes on volume
Four. Prepare a vinaigrette with olive oil, mustard seeds and honey
5. Add a base of tomato and mozzarella to the dough
6. Spread the spinach on the base and marinate it with the vinaigrette
7. Spread the goat cheese and cherry tomatoes over the spinach
8. Put it in the oven and, when there are 5 minutes left to finish the pizza, give it a blow in the oven so that all the ingredients melt slightly
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An example of what would be the perfect pizza
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