NO LONGER AVAILABLE Valentine's Day Special 2/13: Pizza margherita, Capricciosa, Diavola, Ortolana

In this 1.5-hour experience, you’ll join us in the small town of Palombara Sabina. Nonna will invite you into her home and show you and your Valentine how to make the perfect pizza! Each person's pizza will be unique, as they will choose the toppings and ingredients they like best. Every class provides a meal to a child in need. One Class, One Meal.

Ingredients for two (2) people:

Dough (For every type of pizza):

• 2 cups flour/  280 g of “00” grade flour
• 3gr fresh beer yeast or 1 gr dry beer yeast
• 1 cup of warm water/ 150 g
• 1 tbsp of sugar
• 1 tbsp of fine salt
• 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil

Now, you can choose what you’d like to put on top (choose the ingredients to make your unique pizza)!

Margherita (ingredients to make 2 pizzas):

• 1 cup of passata (better made with San Marzano tomatoes or buy any Italian brand)
• 2 fresh mozzarella cheese
• 8 basil leaves
• fine salt
• Extra -virgin olive oil

Capricciosa (ingredients to make 2 pizzas):

• 1 cup of passata (better made with San Marzano tomatoes or buy any Italian brand)
• 2 fresh mozzarella cheese
• 1 boiled egg
• 4 slices of ham
• 10 black olives
• 4 fresh champignon mushrooms
• 3-4 canned artichoke hearts
• Extra-virgin olive oil
• fine salt

Prep before the class: cut your mushrooms in thin slices and boil and peel your egg 

Ortolana (ingredients to make 2 pizzas):

• 1 cup of passata (better made with San Marzano tomatoes or buy any Italian brand)
• 1 pinch of dry oregano
• 1 zucchini
• ½  eggplant
• ½  red pepper
• 3-4 fresh champignon mushrooms
• 10 black olives
• Extra-virgin olive oil
• fine salt

Prep before the class: cut the vegetables in slices of 1 cm, season it with fine salt and extra-virgin olive oil  and cook them in a large pan (mushrooms can stay raw)

Diavola (ingredients to make 2 pizzas):

• 1 cup of passata (better made with San Marzano tomatoes or buy any Italian brand)
• 2 fresh mozzarella cheese
• 20 slices of salami pepperoni
• Extra-virgin olive oil
• fine salt

Utensils:

• 1 Rolling pin
• 1 large cutting knife or a bread knife with a smooth edge
• 1 fork
• 1 large wooden cutting board (or a clean countertop or table)
• 2 large mixing bowls
• 1 small mixing bowl
• 1 Wooden spoon
• 1 Flat square spatula
• 1 tablespoon measure
• 1 teaspoon measure
• 1 Round oven tray (30cm diameter) or rectangular oven tray (30x40cm) 
•  Oven! 

1. Review the shopping list of ingredients below to buy before the class. 2. Time to shop! 3. On the day of your class you'll receive a calendar invitation in your email with a Zoom link, about 50 minutes before the class starts. If there are any pre-class prep instructions, make sure to be ready before class begins.