MAKES ONE 12-INCH PIZZA
Pizza and burgers together at long and delicious last. This pizza packs a one-two punch of party-food flavor by combining cheeseburger fixings on a perfectly cooked pizza.
The burger part is inspired by a fast-food burger but it isn’t the Frankenfood you’d get at a chain. It’s made with quality ingredients and will remind you what a great roadside burger should taste like. Kids like it, teenagers adore it, and adults love it.
1 ball Seventy-Two-Hour Pizza Dough or your favorite pizza dough
Flour for dusting
¼ cup tomato sauce
125 grams (4 ounces) ground beef (we prefer 85 percent lean)
50 grams (2 ounces) of your favorite cheese blend, shredded (we use half fontina, half Muenster)
25 grams (about 2 tablespoons) onion, diced
75 grams (1 medium) dill pickle, diced
25 grams (1 ounce) iceberg lettuce, chiffonaded (here)
1 tablespoon Special Sauce (recipe follows)
1. Preheat the Baking Steel in your oven (here).
2. Stretch your dough into a 12-inch circle (oblong or oval is also fine). Lightly flour your peel and place the dough on top.
3. Set the oven to Broil.
4. Evenly distribute the tomato sauce across the top of the pizza, leaving about 1 inch around the perimeter for the crust.
5. Using clean hands, form the ground beef into mini-patties and distribute the patties evenly across the top so that every pizza slice will have a little burger. Scatter the shredded cheese across that, and then the onion and pickle.
6. Use a generously floured pizza peel to launch your pizza onto the Baking Steel and bake under the broiler for 2 minutes.
7. After 2 minutes, open the oven and use your pizza peel to give the pizza a 180-degree turn. Turn off the broiler, set the oven to its highest temperature, and continue cooking for another 1 to 2 minutes or until the cheese has attained the desired brownness.
8. Use your pizza peel to remove the pie from the oven. Scatter the lettuce on top. Drizzle with the Special Sauce. Slice and serve.