Pizza with 4 cheeses

Here another delicious recipes for pizza. This Italian pizza is usually called “white pizza” because it is prepared without the tomato sauce. On the bottom of the dough instead of the tomatoes sauce I usually spread a teaspoon of stracchino cheese. The main ingredients of this Italian pizza are cheeses indeed it is called pizza with 4 cheeses. The cheeses that I use for this pizza are: the Asiago cheese, the Gorgonzola cheese, the Pecorino cheese and the Mozzarella cheese. The Asiago cheese and the Pecorino cheese that I used here they have a medium maturing and the taste that much more you can feel when you taste this eliciuos pizza is that one of the Gorgonzola cheese.

INGREDIENTS (for 2 pizza)
For the dought follow the recipe that you find here.
1 Teaspoon of Stracchino cheese
150 g or 5,3 oz of Mozzarella cheese
60 g or 2,1 oz of Asiago cheese
60 g or 2,1 oz of Pecorino cheese
60 g or 2,1 oz of Gorgonzola cheese

PREPARATION TIME: 10 minutes + the time you need for the rising of the dough

COOKING TIME: 15 – 20 minutes

PREPARATION
Prepare the dough for pizza as described here. Half an hour before to roll out the pizza start the preparation of the ingredients you need to flavour the pizza and preheat the oven at the maximum degree, in my oven is 482°F but also 572°F is ok. Cut in small cubes the mozzarella cheese, the pecorino cheese, the asiago cheese and the gorgonzola cheese. All the ingredients are ready. You can roll out the dough and flavour pizza.



Start spreading with a teaspoon of stracchino cheese the bottom of the pizza.



Put the pieces of mozzarella cheese homogeneously and then the other pieces of cheese.







Pizza is ready to be' cooked. Bake pizza for 15 - 20 minutes. Put the pizza first in the lower part of the oven so it will cook on the bottom and then after more or less 10 minutes transfer it in the upper part so it will become crumchy on the surface. Pay attention and check the cooking time by time because according to the power of your oven the cooking can change. The ideal number of pizza to cook in a normal size oven is 2, if you put more you will need more time and you have to move the pizza continuosly from one to another lager of the oven. Serve hot pizza. BUON APPETITO!

Tortiglioni Pasta with 4 Cheeses

This is a simple and fast Italian first course to prepare: you should have in your fridge only some delicious Italian cheese and some milk. To make the cheese sauce you can use any kind of Italian cheese except mozzarella because it is a thready cheese and for this reason it is not ideal to make a sauce, in order to obtain the best result you should melt the pieces of the 4 cheeses that you have choose in some milk and simply sprinkle with some black pepper! The Italian cheeses that I choose for this recipe are: Gorgonzola, a typical Italian blue cheese from Piedmont and Lombardy, Toma, an Italian semi-hard cheese typical of Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta, Casera, a typical cheese of Valtellina and Parmesan.

INGREDIENTS (for 4 people):
320 g of Pasta type “Tortiglioni”
1 Glass of milk
30 g of Gorgonzola cut in pieces
30 g of Toma cut in pieces
30 g Casera cut in pieces
30 g of grated Parmesan
Black pepper
Salt

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 15 minutes

WINE: Dolcetto d'Ovada Doc (Red Wine)

PREPARATION
Let salted water boil for pasta. In the meantime prepare the sauce of cheese: place in a pan the milk and the cheeses, let them melt



and then sprinkle with some black pepper.



When the water boils add the pasta and let it cook as indicated on the packaging, then drain them and pour on it the cheeses sauce.




Serve hot and if you want sprinkled on some other Parmesan.
This is the result:



BUON APPETITO!