{"id":571,"date":"2011-10-25T16:40:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T20:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/2011\/10\/25\/tony-gemignanis-original-tomato-pie-wcheese\/"},"modified":"2011-10-25T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T20:40:46","slug":"tony-gemignanis-original-tomato-pie-wcheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/tony-gemignanis-original-tomato-pie-wcheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Gemignani’s Original Tomato Pie w\/Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cheese on the bottom, use a good amount of crushed tomatoes…<\/p><\/div>How do you celebrate, or explore a new ingredient you are looking to use?\u00a0 If your ingredient is a can of Bianco DiNapoli Organic Tomatoes you got your hands on, you don’t need to look too much further than Tony Gemignani’s Orginal Tomato Pie with Cheese.\u00a0 I remembered this pizza and thought it would be the perfect platform for these tomatoes to shine.\u00a0 I was on a tomato quest after all.\u00a0 This pizza is simply a celebration of the tomato.\u00a0 Tony’s Pizzeria Napoletana even offers a limited number of pies per day be made with the Bianco DiNapoli tomatoes for an additional charge.\u00a0 It’s worth it!<\/p>\n

It’s a sauce pizza.<\/p><\/div>Tony has a couple versions of this pizza: The Original Tomato Pie, Original Tomato Pie with Cheese, and Jersey’s Original Tomato Pie. The basic concept is Tomato – hand crushed tomatoes spread on the dough.\u00a0 It is finished with a little pinched italian sausage, fresh oregano, olive oil and sea salt.\u00a0 The Jersey version uses sliced mozzarella and adds some parmigiano as well.\u00a0 They all deliver tomatoes to you on a platter, or pizza crust.\u00a0 Delicious!<\/p>\n

I mention this in some of my other recipes from this day, but it is worth repeating.\u00a0 My son was eating one of the pizzas I had been making that day.\u00a0 For all of the pizzas I was making, I was only using these tomatoes hand crushed – nothing added.\u00a0 He sat at the table as I made this pizza and out of nowhere he said, “Dad.\u00a0 Great sauce!”\u00a0 He had no idea what I was doing.\u00a0 The sauce stood out that much. That’s impressive.<\/p>\n

Everything is there to support the tomatoes.<\/p><\/div>You can see that for this pizza, I used a lot of sauce.\u00a0 I wanted the tomatoes to melt into the cheese base, but not loose their juicy tomatoey-ness after baking in my oven for 8-10 minutes.\u00a0 It came out just right.\u00a0 Because the tomatoes were hand crushed, they still had some thickness, which was nice to bite into as they held their moisture.\u00a0 You sort of got explosions of tomato flavor in every bite.\u00a0 The sauce in this pizza – the way you lay it out and top it – becomes the key note of the whole thing.\u00a0 With a little mozzarella underneath, you still get that cheese fix, which I think helps set the tomatoes up for your enjoyment even more.\u00a0 And, with a little spicy italian sausage you have the perfect accent for enjoying the tomato pie.<\/p>\n

Tony Gemignani’s Original Tomato Pie with Cheese:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Brad’s Original Tomato Pie with Cheese<\/p><\/div>Pizza Dough
*I was using a Central Mills Germania Flour Dough (any dough will work)
Grated Mozzarella
Bianco DiNapoli Organic Tomatoes
Pinched Italian Sausage
Fresh Oregano
Olive Oil
Sea Salt <\/p>\n

Sprinkle a little mozzarella on the dough. <\/strong>
You don’t want this pizza to be about the cheese.\u00a0 It’s there on the bottom layer for a reason.\u00a0 It’s performing a supporting role.<\/p>\n

Almost as a compulsion, I have to point out the charred tips of the sausage. I love that, especially when I get there in my home oven.<\/p><\/div>Add a good amount of your hand crushed tomatoes.<\/strong>
*Note:\u00a0 I didn’t add anything to the tomatoes, just some fingers and some squeezing.\u00a0 You want enough tomatoes to make sure it stays moist after cooking for 8-10 minutes.<\/p>\n

Pinched Italian Sausage <\/strong>
The pinching creates a thin piece of sausage that will fully cook in the oven.\u00a0 Since I’m making this at home and my oven only hits 550 degrees, I saute my sausage first leaving it a little pink in the middle so it will finish in the oven.<\/p>\n

I put a little oregano<\/strong> on prior to cooking the pizza and then more after – just so I could get a little cooked into the sauce and then some fresh leaves as a finishing accent after.<\/p>\n

After snapping a few pictures, the pizza went into the oven.<\/p>\n

Slice and serve. So good.<\/p><\/div>Give it about 8-10 minutes and out she comes.<\/p>\n

I drizzled a little olive oil and dropped a little more fresh oregano on top and got this one to the table, where the family was waiting in line (behind Owen, who had by now identified a new favorite sauce and was using his muscle to make sure he was first in line).\u00a0 I didn’t add any sea salt and found that it was perfect without it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

This is a great pizza. Thanks Tony!<\/p>\n

Enjoy<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

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