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pizza with mozzarella, anchovies, chilli, capers and parsley

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Make sure you get hold of good-quality tinned Spanish anchovies for this, otherwise it's not worth making it.

Cut the anchovy filets in half lengthways and add to a bowl with the sliced chili – feel free to use as much as you like – the capers, a couple of tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil and the lemon zest. Squeeze over a little lemon juice as well and mix up. Let the anchovies sit in the marinade for 15 minutes. Smear the pasta-and-pizza/the_quickest_tomato_sauce">tomato sauce evenly over the pasta-and-pizza/pizza_dough">pizza base and scatter torn-up pieces of mozzarella over the top. Evenly lay over the anchovy fillets, scatter over the capers and chilli, and sprinkle with a little parsley and seasoning. Drizzle with the leftover marinating oil and cook until crisp and golden.

• from Jamie's Italy

ingredients

• 4 anchovy fillets
• ½ a fresh red chilli, sliced
• 1 heaped teaspoon small capers, rinsed if salty
• extra virgin olive oil
zest and juice of ½ a lemon
• 3 tablespoons tomato sauce
• 85g/3oz mozzarella
• 1 tablespoon finely sliced fresh flat-leaf parsley
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

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1. by testa on Wed 22 Feb 2012 @ 19:47

What an inspiration for a great gourmet pizza using everything in the fridge/pantry... Used good frozen pizza dough ( Brooklyn), rolled out thin, and Spatini-rip-off sauce with added oregano as the base. (Google Spatini recipe - long gone commercially but better and easy to make anyway) Added chopped mixed salad bar olives, minced onions, anchovy paste to bind and the rest of Jamie''s ingredients. Fresh mozzarella on top. Good God, people... Pinning it...<br /> <br /> p.s. Well-seasoned pizza stone - invaluable.

2. by han-wen on Mon 22 Aug 2011 @ 02:27

I made this pizza, and out of several varieties (including goat cheese & honey, margerita, etc.), it took away. Spicy, tarty, savoury, zesty: it's simply briliiant!

3. by ian on Mon 04 Jul 2011 @ 11:01

When I make pizzas, the mozzarella runs all over the place and leaves the base soggy. Is the oven not hot enough?

4. by KATIE on Mon 23 May 2011 @ 14:41

I LOVE THIS PIZZA ALREADY AND IVE NEVER EVEN TRIED IT !!!!<br />

5. by sandra mara on Fri 11 Dec 2009 @ 12:26

Que delicia!!! Nice pizza!!!

6. by ben on Thu 01 Oct 2009 @ 15:39

nice pizza! =)

7. by Ryano on Fri 25 Jul 2008 @ 00:28

This is a great recipe! Spicy and savory; it's a quick and easy, a dinner favorite in my house! Goes great with a great with a tall Belgium blond..........beer. ;)

8. by luigi on Sun 25 May 2008 @ 16:27

hello, the pizza in the pictures doesn't look like it has any tomato sauce!!! But in the receipe you say
"Smear the tomato sauce evenly over the pizza base".
Ciao luigi

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