Categories: Main Dish, Pizza, Vegetarian

Ingredients

• 15 ounces pizza dough , at room temperature (New York-Style Pizza Dough)
• unbleached bread flour , for dusting
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1/2 cup pizza sauce (New York-Style Pizza Sauce)
• 1/2 tablespoon freshly grated parmesan cheese
• 1 1/2 cups lightly packed fresh spinach leaves , torn into large pieces
• 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh garlic
• 2 cups coarsely shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1⁄3; cup whole milk ricotta cheese
• 1 ripe tomato , cored and thinly sliced

Directions

1. Position an oven rack on the 2nd-lowest level in the oven; place a baking stone on the rack; position another rack in the upper third of the oven; preheat oven to 500°.

2. Coat a 12-inch pizza screen or perforated pizza pan with cooking spray.

3. Lightly dust pizza dough with flour; lay dough in prepared pan and gently stretch into a 12-inch round.

4. Top the pizza: brush the dough with 1 tablespoons olive oil.

5. Spread the pizza sauce evenly over dough, leaving a ¼-inch border.

6. Sprinkle the Parmesan over the top; distribute the spinach evenly over the top and sprinkle garlic over the spinach.

7. Cover the spinach with the mozzarella.

8. Using a teaspoon, arrange little globs of ricotta evenly over the top.

9. Drizzle with the remaining 1 tablespoons olive oil.

10. Place pizza in oven on the upper rack.

11. Bake 10 minutes, until crust is crisp and golden brown.

12. Using a pizza peel, lift pizza off the pan and place the crust directly on the baking stone; remove pizza pan from oven.

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14. Bake about 3 more minutes, until bottom of crust is golden brown.

15. Using the peel, remove the pizza from the oven and transfer to a cutting board.

16. Arrange tomato slices over the top; slice and serve.

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