Chinese-by-way-of-Japan Pizza
Written by Jeshii on 2005.09.25 – 01:22 -
Yay, tomorrow is Slashfood’s Pizza Day, so today I decided to make myself a pizza. Normally, I’m all about the Hawaiian pizza, but after discussing it over with Kyun, we came up with an idea! Cantonese-style BBQ pork, bean sprout, Shanghai bok choi pizza with mabo tofu sauce! I know it is a mouthful (a tasty one at that!), but let’s look at the ingredients.
1. The dough – The base for the whole endeavor. It’s a simple dough recipe my mom gave me years ago. Water, salt, oil, yeast, and flour. Let it rise in a dark, warm spot for at least an hour. I put it on top of the preheating oven wrapped in a towel.
2. The sauce – I’m using mabo tofu as the sauce. Basically it is this Chinese savory sauce with meat and tofu that you usually eat with rice. It’s popular in Japan, so I’m just using a package mix. 
3. Cantonese-style BBQ pork – Also popular in Japan, so I got it at the market.
4. Beat sprouts – aka moyashi in Japanese.
5. Shanghai Bok Choi – A nice dark leafy vege stir-fried in sesame oil. Called chingensai in Japanese.
6. Cheese?! Yeah, I put cheese on them (admittedly, I don’t know what kind… Japanese white melty cheese…). It was yummy, but so against the rules of Asian cuisine. But in Japan, they put cheese on curry and okonomiyaki, so hell, may as well! Plus, after tasting, the more cheese I put on, the more it seemed like pizza rather than stir-fry on focaccia.
Anyway, so you know how pizza goes. Flatten out the dough (no, I can’t spin it, but Gregg can!), put on the sauce, put on the cheese, put on the toppings and throw it in a preheated oven at 233 degrees Celsius. But, there’s also one important thing! You have to put a stone, or as Alton Brown calls it, a thermal capacitor, in the oven! That makes it all crispy and good.
So, after 15-20 minutes, this is the result. Yummy! I gotta say the ingredients go well together. Maybe next time I would leave the tofu out and just use the mabo sauce. But the spicy and sour flavor is just awesome. This was a fun experiment!
[Originally published @ The Revecess Blog: http://www.revecess.com/index.php?p=64]
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