Pizza! Why exactly did you win the hearts of people and still do not let them go?

But indeed, at the moment this dish is almost at the peak of its popularity, and its variations can be found even in the most distant corners of our planet. Take at least Russia, which is definitely far from the sunny coasts of Italy, but you can still taste delicious pizza here.

Yes, of course, it will be far from classic Italian, but what can you do? Although there is an option: cheese pizza, the recipe of which can be recreated at home. It's easy to make but delicious on the table!

Why is cheese

We opted for pizza, the main component of which is already announced in the title. Indeed, the recipe for cheese pizza at home for the most part consists of various types of cheese. They can be varied to add interesting flavors and create new flavor combinations. Or you can take one kind of cheese. In this case, you will also get a worthwhile result, but with a less expressive taste.

Of course, it is difficult to get a version that is similar to the original, since even the cheeses sold are different in all countries, not to mention the old recipes and traditions passed down from generation to generation.

The most important thing for our future dish is that the cheese is of high quality, because it is the guarantor of the future taste of your pizza.

Base Ingredients

First of all, let's prepare the dough, on which we will already assemble the future dish. Of course, you may well take the purchase option so as not to bother and mess around in the kitchen, but it is unlikely that the store product will differ in the brightness of taste and the quality of the homemade dish.

If that doesn't matter to you, then skip this step and move on to the next one. We will pay a little attention to the test, as we are sure that the result will be worth it.

Ingredients:

• Water - 125 ml.
• Yeast - 1.25 tsp
• Salt - 1 tsp
• Flour - 200-250 g (depending on the flour, it reacts differently with water, which means it can take more or less liquid).
• Olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.

Cheese Pizza: Dough Recipe

Let's start preparing the dough by cleaning the work surface in advance, putting on an apron and washing our hands. These are the measures that should be taken so that after kneading the dough you do not have to clean the kitchen for a long time.

• First, prepare the yeast by dissolving it in warm water along with sugar, which will only speed up the reaction. Let the mixture brew for 10-15 minutes in a warm place.
• Pour most of the flour into a deep bowl to make the cooking process easier and faster. Add salt to the loose mixture and, having made a small hole in the center, pour the yeast mixture into it.

• We mix the resulting consistency with a fork, and then proceed to manual work. Carefully, gently pressing on the dough, we form a small ball out of it. If it sticks to your hands too much, refusing to roll into a ball, add a little flour, bringing it to a slightly sticky consistency.
• Add the olive oil and knead it into the dough, massaging in, letting each bit soak in. Even if at this stage the stickiness does not go away, do not worry, continue to work with the dough for another 5-10 minutes, after which it will turn into a smooth and even lump.
• Put the workpiece in a container, cover with a towel or cling film and set aside for 30-40 minutes to rise well.

pizza ingredients

While our dough is filling with strength, we will prepare the following necessary components that we will use. Much attention should be paid to cheese, as it is the main ingredient of our future dish.

Do not worry if suddenly you cannot find any option: you can safely replace it with another one that suits you.

• Hard cheese - 70 g.
• Hard cream cheese - 40 g.
• Brynza - 70 g.
• Blue cheese - 20 g.
• Large tomato - 1 pc.
• Peeled olives - 10-15 pcs.
• Provence herbs - 1/2 tsp
• Olive oil - 2-3 tbsp. l.

Cheese pizza: cooking recipe

Without slowing down, we get to work, since our dough has long come up, and the rest of the ingredients are ready.

• We take out the finished dough from the container and put it on a surface lightly covered with flour. Such a trick will help us avoid unpleasant sticking of the base to the surface of the table. We roll out the workpiece to the desired size, we also form the sides as desired. In addition, if this amount of dough is too much for you, then divide the entire amount in half, and stretch the finished pizza base with your hands to a small thickness.

• In a small bowl, mix our seasoning, Provencal herbs with oil, and lightly knead them together. This will release more flavor from the spices.
• We cover the base for pizza with an oil mixture with herbs, evenly distributing it around the entire perimeter.
• Grate all four types of cheese separately on a grater and gradually lay them out on the base of the dough. The most fusible grades should be put down, and the hard ones, on the contrary, on top.
• Cut the tomato into large rings and also put them on top of the cheese along with the olives. Do not forget to put the rest of the cheese on top of the vegetable layer.
• We heat the oven to 240-250 degrees, where the cheese pizza, the recipe of which is almost completed, will be baked for 15-25 minutes (depending on the oven) until golden brown. You should not leave the kitchen for a long time, forgetting about the dish, but on the contrary, look inside the oven more often to avoid burnt edges. At this stage, the pizza can be considered ready.

A result that pleases the eye

Now you can enjoy the finished dish with pleasure. Without a doubt, we can say, looking at the photo, cheese pizza, the recipe of which we have already sorted out, came out to fame. What is this juicy filling worth, stretching pieces of cheese that leave a pleasant aftertaste, crispy dough on the sides.

Such a recipe should be kept somewhere nearby, as it is very convenient and quick to prepare, and it is unlikely that any guests will refuse a hot slice of pizza. It is possible that the process of creating a dough seemed long and complicated to you, but this task can be greatly simplified by preparing several blanks in advance and freezing them.

Thus, you just need to get a piece of homemade dough, wait until it thaws, and bake a wonderful pizza in 30 minutes that will win the hearts of both children and adults. I should warn you: you can't stop making pizza!

There was a time when pizza was a simple dish for ordinary people in Italy. However, now it is one of the most famous Italian dishes in the world and popular among all segments of the population. At home, you can cook a simple version of this dish using the products that you have on hand. As a rule, the filling for homemade pizza is sausage, cheese, tomatoes, tomato sauce. But you can cook a more “Italian” pizza called “quattro formaggio”. This name in the native language sounds like four cheeses.

Flour and cheeses produced in Italy are different from domestic products, however, following the principles of cooking four cheese pizza, you can cook it yourself in your home kitchen.
Traditionally, the following cheeses are used for quattro formaggio:

• cheese with blue mold dor blue;
• hard parmesan;
• mozzarella with a soft texture;
• sweet maasdam.

All these varieties of cheese are not a problem to find in the distribution network. Even if they are not made in Italy, but at domestic dairies, homemade four cheese pizza turns out to be very tasty. If any cheese is not on sale, you can pick up any other cheese with similar characteristics.
To make four cheese pizza at home, you need:

• mozzarella 60 g;
• blue cheese 60 g;
• parmesan or any hard cheese 30 g;
• maazdam cheese or casket 60 g.

For test:

• flour 160 - 170 g;
• water 100 ml;
• oils 20 ml;
• salt 3 g;
• sugar 10 g;
• yeast 7 g.

1. Despite the fact that you can find a ready-made pizza base on sale, it is still better to cook the dough for it on your own. To do this, you need to knead a simple yeast dough in water with the addition of a small amount of oil. It is preferable to use olive, but you can take any vegetable oil without smell. To prepare the dough, you need to put sugar, salt and yeast in warm water. Pour in the oil and stir in the flour. Knead the dough. Leave the pizza dough for 40 minutes in a warm place.

2. Finely grate parmesan or any hard cheese.

3. Break mozzarella with your hands or cut into pieces.

4. Break the blue cheese into small pieces.

5. Grate maazdam or cheese casket on a coarse grater.

6. Roll out the dough. This must be done as subtly as possible.

7. It is desirable that the four-cheese pizza base be no thicker than 4-5 mm.

8. Sprinkle grated parmesan over the entire pizza base.

9. Arrange the mozzarella and blue cheese pieces.

I've been meaning to post the recipe for a long time. Four cheese pizza or Quattro Formaggio (Pizza Quattro Formaggio), but the absence of these four good quality cheeses on the shelves of our stores stopped me. Joke about being in Russia pizza 4 cheese consists of Poshekhonsky, Russian, Kostroma and Adyghe cheeses is still relevant, but still I decided to let the recipe be. Maybe your nearest store sells wonderful cheeses of any kind, produced, for example, in Belarus. Or you live in a region where cheeses never disappeared at all. Or you, like me, were brought by friends from abroad, these most cherished four cheeses. So, we found cheeses, we will cook pizza 4 cheese!

Refers to the so-called type of white pizzas ("pizza Bianca"), i.e. it does not put tomato sauce and tomatoes, traditional for most pizzas. The most important thing here is cheeses, or rather their combination. It is important here that you have four different types of cheeses: soft, hard, aromatic (spicy) and blue cheeses. Traditional composition four cheese pizza: Mozzarella (soft cheese), Parmesan (hard cheese), Emmental (flavored spicy cheese) and Gorgonzola (blue cheese).

Ingredients

• Pizza dough 270 - 300 g
• Mozzarella cheese for pizza 100 g
• Emmental cheese (or Maasdam) 100 g
• Gorgonzola cheese (or other blue cheese) 50 g
• parmesan cheese 50 g
• olive oil 1 st. a spoon
• dried oregano 1 teaspoon

And now let's discuss cheeses, as I wrote above, a combination of different types of cheeses is important here, they should be present: soft, hard, fragrant (spicy) and blue cheeses:

● Mozzarella(Mozzarella) is a young soft Italian cheese in the form of white balls, but here we will use a hard variety of this cheese, the so-called pizza mozzarella. This cheese is not salty, has a neutral taste, melts very well, bakes beautifully and stretches perfectly when biting into pizza. Instead, you can take unsalted Suluguni, they are very similar to hard Mozzarella.

● Parmesan(Parmigiano Reggiano) - hard aged cheese, has a rich spicy taste and brittle texture. It can be replaced with other hard aged cheese.

● Emmental or Emmentaler(Emmentaler) - a traditional Swiss cheese with characteristic large holes, this aromatic cheese has a spicy sweetish taste. Instead, you can use Maasdam cheese (Maasdam), it also has a spicy sweet taste and large holes. If you can't find either, take Gouda, Edam or Cheddar, they will also turn out delicious.

● Gorgonzola(Gorgonzola) - Italian blue cheese, an analogue of the French Roquefort, they are also called "blue cheeses". Gorgonzola has a characteristic pungent taste and bright aroma. Instead, you can use any other blue cheese, for example, the more common German Dorblu.

Cooking

First, let's prepare all the ingredients. If you didn’t read a lot of text at the beginning, then I repeat that the pizza dough recipe can be found here:. Instead of oregano, you can use other herbs of your choice, such as dried basil or an Italian herb blend.

The table on which we will roll out the dough is lightly sprinkled with flour. I roll out the dough on parchment, and then I bake it on it. Roll out the dough with a thickness of 2-3 mm. We bend the edges 2-3 cm inward and close them well so that they do not peel off during baking, so we make sides for our pizza. As a result, I got a pizza diameter of 32 cm. But, in any case, the diameter of the pizza base is limited by the size of your pan.

At this stage, it is better to transfer the base to the baking sheet or form in which you will bake the pizza, and continue to collect it already there, otherwise it will be very difficult to do it with the filling later. I bake pizza on parchment on a baking sheet turned upside down, then the sides of the baking sheet do not interfere, and it is very convenient to put and remove pizza.

Lubricate the base with olive oil, sprinkle with oregano or other spices to your taste. In my recipe, I lightly bake the cake before adding the filling to make the dough crispy. In pizza 4 cheese, this is not necessary, since there is no liquid tomato sauce and tomatoes, which give a lot of juice and soak the base, so we will bake this pizza right away with the filling.

Emmental and mozzarella cut into slices 5-10 mm thick. You can immediately cut them into cubes, but I prefer not to cut the cheese in advance, but to tear off small pieces from the sliced ​​\u200b\u200bcheese and put them on the pizza right away. So the pieces are not the same, somewhere larger, somewhere smaller, and, it seems to me, the tastes of different cheeses are better felt from this. No need to rub the cheeses and cut them very finely, otherwise they will quickly melt, mix and this combination of different cheeses will no longer work. Also, grated and finely chopped cheese melts very quickly and can start to burn while the dough is not yet baked enough.

But we grate Parmesan on a fine grater, because it melts for a long time, and if we cut it coarsely, it may not have time to melt by the time the pizza is ready.

I also cut gorgonzola into large pieces, and then I will break off small pieces from them and immediately lay them out on pizza. Gorgonzola crumbles very well and is very easy to spread in this way. But, if you're using other blue cheeses, they tend to be denser, and it's probably best to cut them into small pieces ahead of time rather than trying to crumble them right over the pizza.

On the base we lay out the mozzarella, chopped or torn into small pieces, and also put the chopped emmental on top.

Lay out the gorgonzola.

Sprinkle grated parmesan on top. We heat the oven to the maximum temperature (220-250 ° C), the best mode is bottom + top. If your oven cannot turn on these modes at the same time, then first turn on the fire from below, and at the end switch to the top to bake pizza from above too. We bake pizza on an average level for about 10-15 minutes, but the time, of course, greatly depends on your oven. All the cheese should melt and begin to lightly bake, the dough should become ruddy. But do not overdo it so that the dough does not dry out.

Pizza four cheese ready, you can decorate it with fresh basil and eat it while it is hot. Enjoy your meal!

This recipe is for cheese lovers first and foremost! I am one of those, so I cook this pizza often. “Quadro Formaccio” is the Italian name for the “Four Cheese” pizza. The special charm of this pizza is not so much that it has a lot of cheese, but that all these cheeses are completely different in taste, structure and aroma, and together they create a unique and very tasty pizza.

I don't want to talk about the calorie content of this pizza. Sometimes you can afford such a high-calorie bomb and join the world of Italian cuisine and pizza lovers.

Cheeses can be varied and replaced with similar ones, but the main principle must still be preserved:

Soft cheese: mozzarella (can be replaced with feta or cheese)

Spicy cheese: Dor blue, gorgonzola

Hard Cheese: Parmesan, Pecorino, Grana Padano

Spiced Cheese: Emmental, Gouda, Cheddar

Well, now that we have figured out the cheeses and realized that such a pizza is not a cheap pleasure, we will still cook the Four Cheese pizza and get the maximum pleasure from eating it!

To make pizza, we need such products.

Let's prepare pizza dough, you can cook the dough according to your proven recipe, I will offer you mine. I don't like thick pizza bases, so I don't let the dough rise for a long time. Put the yeast into a bowl.

Add sugar and salt.

We add water.

Add a little flour, a couple of spoons.

Now add vegetable (I have - olive) oil. We mix everything and let it stand a little in a warm place, literally 10-15 minutes.

After that, add the dough to the remaining sifted flour and knead the dough.

We spread it in a form greased with vegetable oil and cover with a film. Let the dough rise in a warm place, it will take 30-40 minutes.

In the meantime, prepare the pizza filling: Tear the Mozzarella into pieces with your hands, cut the Dor Blue cheese into cubes, grate the Parmesan and Gouda on a medium grater.

We divide the dough into two parts. Each pizza will be 26mm in diameter. I always roll out the dough on parchment paper, so it’s easier to transfer the pizza to a baking sheet and then you don’t need to wash the baking sheet)).

There is no special sequence or rule for how to lay out cheeses. You can divide the pizza into four segments and lay out each type of cheese separately, but I like to keep all the cheeses together. Therefore, first lay out the Mozzarella.

Sprinkle grated gouda on top.

Spread the Parmesan cheese evenly over the entire surface of the pizza with the very last layer.

We send the pizza to the oven preheated to 200 degrees and bake it for 15-17 minutes. Garnish the finished pizza with basil and serve.

Pizza "Four Cheese" turns out to be cheese and cheese, delicious, delicious.

Treat! Enjoy your meal!

As you know, the most popular Italian dish in the world is pizza. There are many varieties of this dish. In addition, for sure, each of us created our own pizza, filling it with the ingredients that were found in the refrigerator. Today we offer to consider a few recipes for the most famous type of this dish. It's about cheese pizza.

Classic recipe

This cheese is prepared quite simply and quickly. So even a novice hostess can do it. It is prepared from yeast dough, on which two types of cheese and tomato sauce are laid out.

Ingredients

So, to prepare this Italian dish, we will need the following products: wheat flour - 4 cups, dry yeast - two teaspoons, salt - one and a half teaspoons, olive oil - two tablespoons and one and a half glasses of warm water. From the listed products we will make dough. To prepare the sauce, we need two cloves of garlic, two tablespoons of olive oil, 800 grams of tomatoes, salt and black pepper - to taste. For the pizza filling, we will use two types of cheese, pre-shredded on a grater - parmesan - a quarter cup and mozzarella - 3 cups.

Instruction

First, let's take a test. To do this, combine flour, salt and yeast. We mix. Then add water and olive oil. Mix until a homogeneous consistency. If the dough is too sticky, you can add a little more flour. Now it must be laid out on a floured work surface and kneaded. Then we shift the dough into a lightly oiled bowl, cover with a towel and leave for about an hour and a half in a warm place to rise.

Since the cheese pizza, the recipe of which we are considering, should be prepared with sauce, let's prepare it. We chop the garlic. We put it together with olive oil in a pan. We put on a small fire and heat for 1-2 minutes. Pre-peeled and chopped tomatoes are then also spread in a pan. Cook the sauce, stirring constantly, until thickened. This will take about a quarter of an hour. After that, salt and pepper it and remove it from the stove.

We turn on the oven at 250 degrees so that it warms up well. Punch down the risen dough and divide into two parts. We put one of them on the table, and return the second to the bowl and cover with a towel. Roll out the dough on the work surface into a circle. Its diameter should be approximately 35 centimeters. We cover the baking sheet with parchment or grease it with oil and carefully transfer it to it. This is most conveniently done by wrapping a rolled circle of dough on a rolling pin. Grease one centimeter from the edge of the base with oil. Now spread 1 cup of the resulting sauce on the dough. We distribute it evenly, without covering the sides smeared with oil. Top with Mozzarella (one and a half cups) and Parmesan (two tablespoons). We send pizza to a well-heated oven. Our cheese pizza, the photo of which can be seen in the article, will be ready in 8-13 minutes. It should turn golden. While the first pizza is baking, you can start preparing the second one. The sequence of actions remains the same. The finished pizza will only have to be transferred to a large plate or dish, cut into portions and served. Enjoy your meal!

Cottage Cheese Pizza

We bring to your attention another incomparable recipe for the most popular Italian dish! It is prepared quickly, and everyone in your household will surely like the taste.

So, for this pizza we need the following products: 300 grams of cottage cheese, a little dill, 100 ml of 10% sour cream, 100 grams of tomatoes, hard cheese - 50 grams, black pepper and salt - to taste. For the base, we need ready-made pizza dough (300 grams). It can be made as described in the previous recipe, or bought at the store.

Cooking process

Put the pizza dough in a mold or on a baking sheet. We coat it with vegetable oil on top. Grind dill and mix with cottage cheese. Add sour cream, salt and pepper. If desired, you can use other spices to your taste. Mix until a homogeneous consistency. We spread the resulting mass on the basis of pizza dough. Cut the tomato into slices. We also put them on pizza. We send the baking sheet to the oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake until done. When the dough is browned, sprinkle the pizza on top and send it back to the oven for a couple of minutes. Now the tasty and fragrant dish is ready to serve! Enjoy your meal!

Other filling options

Four-pack pizza is also very popular. Even gourmets will surely like this dish. It is prepared in the same way as a regular pizza. But the filling consists of different types of cheeses. Interestingly, not all varieties of this dairy product can be successfully combined with each other. We bring to your attention the best combinations:

• tiltizer, cheese, edam,;
• gruyère, gorgonzola, parmesan, pecorino;
• fontina, gorgonzola, parmesan, mozzarella;
• parmesan, mozzarella, cheddar and dor blue.

As can be seen from these combinations, it is desirable that hard, soft, aromatic and blue cheeses be present in the pizza. As additional ingredients, you can add basil, olive oil, pepper and salt, as well as other seasonings to your taste. The process of making this pizza is the same as in the previous recipes.