NY Strip Whole Wheat Pizza with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce, Roquefort and Caramelized Onions
NY Strip Whole Wheat Pizza with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce, Roquefort and Caramelized Onions
True confessions: I shamelessly stole this idea from my friend Carey, who shamelessly stole it from a winery she visited --clearly the tastings weren’t sufficient to black out the specifics of the h’ors d’oeuvres. Skimp at your own peril, wineries! As it turns out, plagiarism is delicious.
While I’ll spare you the details, current circumstances warrant a very frugal, let-nothing-go-to-waste approach to culinary budgeting in our house. That said, I’m still forcing myself to believe less money does not mean less flavor.
Having just enjoyed a modest, though delicious, steak dinner to inaugurate Spring on the backyard grill this past Sunday, we were left with a single, lonely NY Strip. A recent trip to Trader Joe’s left us in possession of some amazing (and unbelievably affordable -- seriously run there and indulge) cheese selections. Still rapt in the memory of Carey’s creation, it all came together. Presto! Quick Tuesday night dinner.
NY Strip Whole Wheat Pizza with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce, Roquefort and Caramelized Onions
Remembered from the kitchen of Carey Montes
Ingredients
•1 store-bought, whole wheat pizza dough (don’t get the frozen stuff)
•Flour, for dusting
•1 yellow onion, halved and sliced
•kosher salt
•1/4 cup of red wine
•1/4 cup of Raspberry Chipotle dipping sauce (I used one from Kozlowski Farms).
•olive oil
•1 prepared NY Strip Steak (cooked to your desired temperature - though anything past medium-rare is a travesty in my mind)
•2 oz of bleu cheese (my favorite is Roquefort -- for me nothing matches the flavor of sheep’s milk aged in French limestone caves)
Method
1.Heat about a tablespoon of olive oil over medium-high in a non-stick skillet until it starts to shimmer. Add onions and toss. Stir frequently to keep onions from burning. After about 5 minutes, add a pinch of salt (and a pinch of sugar if you like, to aid the caramelizing process). As onions become translucent, reduce heat to medium and continue stirring frequently to avoid burning for 20 minutes. Deglaze pan with red wine and continue cooking until onions are dark and syrupy.
2.While your onion is reducing to caramelized goodness, pull your pizza dough out of the fridge and let it rest and come up to room temperature.
3.Preheat oven to 350.
4.Slice the steak into thin strips. If it’s been in the refrigerator, pop it in the microwave for a minute or two to heat it up.
5.Slice the cheese into thin strips (or crumble if you prefer) and set aside.
6.Dust a cutting board with flour and press pizza dough into a rough circle.
7.Brush about a tablespoon of olive oil over the surface of a cast iron skillet.
8.Place pizza dough in skillet and shape to fill the bottom.
9.Leaving 1/2 inch border, brush 1 tsp of olive oil over the dough. Add the Raspberry Chipotle dipping sauce and spread evenly.
10.Evenly distribute caramelized onions over sauced dough.
11.Arrange steak slices on dough evenly.
12.Distribute cheese evenly over pizza.
13.Over medium-high heat, cook pizza on the stove top until steam starts to rise from the edges (about 6 minutes).
14.Transfer to preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes. Checking regularly to make sure crust isn’t burning.
15.Remove pizza from oven, transfer from cast iron skillet to cookie sheet and slice with a pizza cutter.
16.Serve immediately.
Pair with the wine you used to deglaze the onion pan.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012