Nadiya Hussain’s Smoky Aubergine Pizza

Ingredients

For the dough:

  • 200g 00 flour
  • 100g ferment
  • 5g salt
  • 150g water
  • Semolina

For the topping:

  • 2 large aubergines
  • 6 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 tbsp ground cumin
  • 6 anchovy fillets
  • 2 tbsp yoghurt/kefir (optional)
  • 2 tsp chilli powder
  • 1 burrata

Method

To make the dough – start the previous day.

  • Mix all the ingredients together and knead for 10 minutes.
  • Leave to prove overnight in the fridge, then take it out of the fridge around 10am and leave to prove some more.

To make the Aubergine topping – can also be made the day before / morning of:

  • Pierce the aubergines all over, pop onto a tray and bake till black all over.
  • Take the aubergines out and leave to cool slightly. Peel the skin and put the flesh into a food processor with the garlic, cumin, anchovies, yoghurt/kefir and chilli powder and blitz to a paste. Set aside.

Putting the Pizza together

  • At around 1:30/2pm add a heavy sprinkling of semolina to the Remoska and also to the work surface that you are going to turn the pizza dough onto.
  • Turn the pizza dough out onto the semolina on the worksurface and fold into a ball a few times incorporating the semolina to stop the stickiness.
  • Place the dough inside the Remoska and using your fingers and knuckles push it out so that it spreads to cover the bottom.
  • Cover the Dough with the Aubergine topping, leaving a gap of about 1cm around the edge of the base of the dough so that it can rise around it.
  • Tear the Burrata and place it on top of the aubergine mix.
  • Place the lid on the Remoska and leave for 4-5hrs for the dough to rise around the aubergine and burrata topping.
  • Bake for 55 minutes

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