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Mixed Wild Mushroom Pizza with Fried Eggs

When i was a kid, one of my favorite fall activities was hunting for wild mushrooms with my brothers in the woods around our home. For this pizza, make sure the mushroom pieces are all roughly the same size so they cook evenly. The runny egg yolk that sauces this pizza binds all the flavors together.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes 4 individual pizzas

Ingredients

1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more as needed
2 garlic cloves, finely minced
Semolina flour
Pizza Dough (page 250), divided into 4 balls
1 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
12 ounces fontina, diced (2 1/4 cups)
12 ounces fresh ricotta (1 1/2 cups)
4 cups mixed fresh wild mushrooms, such as oyster, king oyster, shiitake, cremini, enoki, and chanterelle, thinly sliced
1/4 cup thinly sliced fresh morels
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 large eggs

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Put a pizza stone or baking sheet on the lowest oven rack. Preheat the oven to 500°F. Let the stone get very, very hot.

    Step 2

    In a small bowl, combine the oil and garlic.

    Step 3

    Form the dough balls as for Herbed Spinach and Three-Cheese Pizza (opposite).

    Step 4

    Spread a quarter of the Parmesan and fontina on the dough round, then crumble a quarter of the ricotta over the top. Scatter a quarter of the mushrooms over the cheese. Drizzle a quarter of the garlic oil all over the pizza and season with salt. Slide the sheet onto the hot stone and bake until the crust is browned and crisp, the cheese is melted, and the mushrooms are tender, about 15 minutes.

    Step 5

    While the pizza bakes, heat a little oil in a small nonstick skillet over medium heat. Crack 1 egg into the skillet, lightly season with salt and pepper, and cook, sunny side up, until the white is just set and the yolk is runny.

    Step 6

    Grind pepper all over the pizza and slide the egg onto the pie. Repeat with the remaining ingredients, serving each pizza hot as it comes out of the oven.

Reprinted with permission from Home Cooking with Jean-Georges: My Favorite Simple Recipes by Jean-Georges Vongerichten with Genevieve Ko. Copyright © 2011 by Jean-Georges Vongerichten; photographs copyright © 2011 by John Kernick. Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved. Jean-Georges Vongerichten is one of the most influential chefs in the world, having single-handedly redefined haute French cuisine, lightening and refining it by adding select Asian accents. He is the chef-owner of dozens of restaurants in fourteen cities around the world. His flagship restaurant, Jean Georges, at New York's Columbus Circle, is one of six restaurants in the United States to have been awarded three coveted Michelin stars; it received four stars from the New York Times. The winner of multiple James Beard Foundation awards, he lives in New York City and Waccabuc, New York, with his family. Genevieve Ko is a cookbook author and the senior food editor at Good Housekeeping magazine. She has written for Martha Stewart Living, Gourmet, and Fine Cooking and lives in New York City with her family.
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