Instructions
Pilsner Pizza dough
Step #2 - To make dough. Combine the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
Step #3 - Create a small well in the center of your flour, pour in Honey, Olive Oil and Warm Beer, then use a spatula to combine all the ingredients. If you have a stand mixer with a dough hook, you can use that instead.
Step #4 - When you have everything incorporated together, dump the dough onto a well-floured surface and kneaded with your hands for around 5 minutes, until the dough starts to push back.
Step #5 - Form your dough into a ball and place in a large bowl coated with Olive Oil. Allow to rest for a couple of hours. I like to microwaved a damp towel for a few minutes then drape it over the bowl. Be careful if you do this, because the steam from the hot towel can burn your skin. During this time, the dough should just about double in size.
Step #6 - After about two hours, punch the dough down with your hands and place it back in the bowl to rest for another hour. At this point I like to drizzle the top of the dough with Olive Oil.
Step #7 - Divide the dough in half if you want to make two small pizzas or leave whole if you want to make one large pizza. Take enough plastic wrap and place it on the table. Dump your dough ball into the center of the plastic wrap, fold up and place in the refrigerator overnight.
Duck and Morel Thin Crust Pizza
Step #9 - Remove the Pizza Dough and Duck Breast from the refrigerator and allowing them to reach room temperature while you work on the other ingredients.
Step #10 - Re-hydrate the Dried Morel Mushrooms in 2 cups of Chicken Stock ( or water ) for about an hour.
Step #11 - Slice up the Garlic Cloves and add them to a bowl. Pour in 4 tablespoons of Olive Oil and allow to marinade for about an hour. This will create an Garlic Infused Oil we'll use to brush on the crust.
Step #12 - Score the skin of the Duck Breast with a knife, ensuring only to make shallow cuts to the top layer of skin. Season the Breast meat generously with salt and pepper on both sides.
Step #13 - Add to a cold pan, skin side down, then turn the heat to medium. Dont forget to salt and pepper both sides of the duck.
Step #14 - Cook for around 6-8 minutes on skin side, then flip and cook the other side for another 3-4 minutes.
Step #15 - Remove the Duck from the hot pan with the internal temperature reaches around 135 for medium rare, 145 for medium and 155 for medium well.
Step #16 - Allow to rest 10 to 15 minutes. Then shred meat.
Step #17 - While the Duck is resting, dump the pizza dough out onto a well-floured surface. Using your hands, or roller pin, form your pizza crust into your desired shape. Make it round, square, whatever shape you want. I cut my dough in half, there's enough dough here to make two small thin crust pizza or one large thick crust pizza.
Step #18 - Once you have it the size and shape that you want it, brush the whole top side of the crust with the Garlic infused Olive Oil.
Step #19 - Take a baking sheet / pizza sheet and cover it with some yellow corn meal, then take the pizza crust and place it on the baking sheet, oiled side down. The corn meal will help flavor the crust and ensure that the dough doesn't stick to the baking sheet, if you're cooking your pizza in the oven.
Step #20 - I'm cooking my pizza on a gas grill, but if you want to cook yours in the oven, preheat it to 450 degrees and skip the rest of this step, otherwise, turn grill on high heat. Allow to get hot, then turn down to low. Remove your Pizza Crust from baking sheet and place directly on the grill grates, with no toppings, oiled side down. Brush the top the pizza crust with the Garlic infused Olive Oil. We only want this on the grill for a few minutes, just long enough to set the dough. We aren't trying to cook the dough, just make it stiff enough to work with. Once the crust looks semi stiff, remove it from the grill.
Step #21 - Now is time to started topping your pizza. Drizzle the Garlic infused Olive Oil all over the crust but reserve the slices of Garlic. Generously coat the Pizza Crust with shredded Mozzarella Cheese. Optionally add a second type of cheese like Pecorino Romano. Add shredded Duck Breast Meat, sliced re-hydrated Morel Mushrooms, reserved Garlic slices, Salt, Pepper and Red Pepper Flakes.
Step #22 - Once you have all the topping on it you want. Place it back on the hot grill for a few more minutes, until the cheese is all melted and the crust starts to brown. If you want to cook it in the oven, once the oven is preheated, bake for about 15 minutes.
Step #23 - Once your pizza is done cooking, add some chopped Arugula to the top and serve with a cold beer.
