Pizza with Cremini Mushrooms, New Potatoes, and Crescenza Cheese

Name: Pizza with Cremini Mushrooms, New Potatoes, and Crescenza Cheese
Yield: makes four 8-inch pizzas
Ingredients: 1 whole head garlic; 5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for brushing; 4 small fingerling potatoes, very thinly sliced (no need to peel); 1 pound cremini (common brown) mushrooms, ends trimmed, sliced; 2 cloves garlic, minced; Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper; Pizza dough (page 192); Cornmeal or durum flour for dusting; 1/2 pound Bellwether Farms Crescenza cheese or fresh whole-milk mozzarella; 4 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese; 4 small handfuls arugula

December 22, 2011

Brian spreads a roasted-garlic paste on the dough under the mushrooms and potatoes, which gives this pizza an irresistible fragrance. If you have access to wild mushrooms, by all means use them. Bellwether Farms Crescenza cheese is a soft, supple, young cow’s milk cheese that melts well; mozzarella is stretchier, but a good substitute.

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