Quattro Formaggio (Four Cheese) Pizza / DELIAONLINE RECIPE
PREP Pre-heat oven to lowest setting; warming flour slightly in the oven 10 min, then turnoff oven.
DOUGH Sift flour, salt, yeast and sugar into a bowl; make a well, then add the olive oil and pour in 4 fl oz (120 ml) hand-hot water. Now mix to a dough, starting off with a wooden spoon and using your hands in the final stages of mixing.
Wipe the bowl clean with the dough, adding a spot more water if there are any dry bits left, and transfer it to a flat work surface (there shouldn't be any need to flour this). Knead 3 min til it develops a sheen and blisters under the surface (it should also be springy and elastic). You can now either leave the dough on the surface covered by the upturned bowl or transfer the dough to a clean bowl and cover it with clingfilm that has been lightly oiled on the side facing the dough.
Leave it until it looks as though it has doubled; about an hour at room temp.
Tip dough onto work surface sprinkled generously with polenta (cornmeal). Knock all the air out of the dough and knead it for a couple of seconds to begin shaping it into a ball. Then dust your rolling pin with polenta and roll the dough out to a circle that is approximately 10 inches (25.5 cm) in diameter.
Then finish stretching it out with your hands, working from the centre and using the flat of your fingers to push the dough out; it doesn't need to be a perfect round, but you want it to be a fairly thin-based pizza, with slightly raised edges. Then, using a thick oven glove, very carefully lift the pr-heated baking sheet or pizza stone out of the oven and sprinkle it with a little polenta (cornmeal).
FINAL Now carefully lift the pizza dough on to the stone or baking sheet and quickly arrange teaspoonfuls of ricotta here and there; scatter Mozzarella and Gorgonzola pieces in between then scatter w/ Parm.
Bake on a high shelf 450 deg 10-12 min; crust is golden brown; cheese is bubbling; underneath is crisp and brown. Carefully remove to counter.
SERVE on hot plates straight away.