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Tie-dye pizza with marinara, vodka sauce and pesto

SAM THE COOKING GUY · ♥ 3.6K likes · 62.3K views · 8 min video

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Ingredients
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  • 2 cloves garlic
  • ½ whole serrano
Pesto: whirl the peeled garlic and seeded half serrano briefly.
Making the pesto
  • pine nuts
  • Parmesan cheese
  • 2 cup fresh picked basil leaves
  • olive oil
  • salt
  • pepper
Add the pine nuts, Parmesan and basil leaves, then run while adding olive oil until it pulls in the basil; stop, push down, season with salt and pepper and continue.
Put the pesto in a squeeze bottle.
  • olive oil
  • diced red onion
Vodka sauce: cook the diced red onion in a little olive oil in a small pot until softened, about two and a half minutes ('or three or two').
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 6 oz tomato paste
Add a touch more oil and the garlic until fragrant, then the tomato paste; let it sizzle a minute or two to deepen.
Vodka sauce base
  • ¼–⅓ cup vodka
Add the vodka, mix well and cook about two minutes so the alcohol burns off.
  • 1 cup heavy cream
Add the heavy cream and mix a couple of minutes until thickened and evenly pink with no streaks.
  • smoked paprika
  • red pepper flakes
  • salt and pepper
Season with smoked paprika, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper; simmer longer only if a thicker sauce is wanted.
  • 1 can crushed tomatoes
  • chopped garlic
  • olive oil
  • dried oregano
  • red pepper flakes
  • kosher salt
  • pepper
  • sugar
No-cook marinara: mix the crushed tomatoes with chopped garlic, olive oil, dried oregano, red pepper flakes, kosher salt, pepper and sugar.
Quick no-cook marinara
  • dough
  • flour
Roll the dough on a floured surface with a floured rolling pin to about a 12-inch circle; move it to a floured pizza peel and check it slides.
Rolling out the dough
Scatter small bits of fresh mozzarella.
Mozzarella and the three sauces
  • 4 oz fresh mozzarella
Pipe a ring of marinara with a blip in the centre, then the vodka sauce, then the pesto.
  • parm
Bake in a 550 oven about 10 minutes; finish with a little parm.
Baking and tasting