Mashed Potato Pizza

Mashed potato pizza has an unusual but very tasty topping: mashed potatoes, grated cheese, smoked balyk and pickled onion on thin yeast dough. The dough rises for an hour, and the pizza itself bakes in just 20 minutes at 220°C. This amount makes three pizzas, 20-22 cm in diameter - recommended.

Mashed Potato Pizza

Yeast pizza with a hearty topping of mashed potatoes, hard cheese, smoked balyk and pickled onion.

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Prep Time 25 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Rising time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 45 minutes mins

Servings: 3 pizzas

Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients

  

Dough

• 500 g wheat flour
• 320 ml warm water
• 6 g dry yeast
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 tbsp olive oil

Topping

• 500 g mashed potatoes
• 300 g hard cheese
• 200 g smoked balyk
• 100 g pickled onion
• 100 g tomato paste or ketchup

Method

 

1. Add the yeast, sugar and olive oil to the warm water and stir until smooth.
2. Sift in the flour, pour in the yeast mixture, add the salt and knead a soft, elastic dough. Gather into a ball, cover with plastic wrap and leave in a warm spot for 1 hour.
3. Divide the risen dough into 3 pieces, stretch each one by hand into a 20-22 cm circle, forming a raised rim.
4. Spread the base with sauce, then top with mashed potatoes, cheese, balyk and pickled onion.
5. Bake for 20 minutes in a well-preheated oven at 220°C.
   

Notes

The dough is enough for 3 pizzas, 20-22 cm in diameter.

Tips

• Stretch the dough by hand, forming a raised rim - this makes the pizza airier at the edge.
• The pickled onion adds a tang that balances the hearty mashed potato.
• Preheat the oven as hot as possible: the higher the temperature, the better the base bakes through.