Pot-roasted Garlic Flatbread with Rosemary and Parmigiana Cheese

Pot-roasted Garlic Flatbread with Rosemary and Parmigiana Cheese
Chef's notes

This flatbread is similar to focaccia. It can be eaten as an appetizer, served with antipasto, as finger food with cocktails, or simply in a basket accompanying dinner.

Fresh garlic is slow simmered in a pot of olive oil with fresh rosemary, a pinch of pepper flakes and Kosher salt. After a few hours, oil becomes infused with garlic and rosemary. Garlic tans, softens and becomes sweet like oven roasted. 

Flatbread are topped with these delicious garlic cloves mashed, spread and drizzled with the infused oil. 

Midway through cooking, flatbreads are sprinkled with parmigiana cheese.

Note, don’t confuse these flatbreads with “Pizza Bianca”, the famous Roman street food. Although Classic Bianca is simple salted flatbread, making them right isn’t so easy. 

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Pot-roasted Garlic Flatbread with Rosemary and Parmigiana Cheese

Ingredients

Pete’s Garlic Oil

  • 6 large garlic cloves with skin
  • ¾ cup of olive oil
  • Needles from a 2-3” sprig of fresh rosemary
  • 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt
  • pinch of red pepper flakes

Flatbread Dough

  • 2 shaped flatbreads, dough from 1 16 oz. pizza dough ball. Please see "Dough Basics" in Overview of Pizza and Flatbread.

Other

  • Shredded parmigiana cheese

Instructions

  1. Remove rough end of garlic cloves and slice each in half lengthwise. Do not remove skin (contributes favor). Place them in a narrow stainless steel butter melting pot. Add the rest of the ingredients. If the olive oil doesn't cover the garlic, add more.

  2. Place on medium heat until the olive oil begins to lightly sizzle. Reduce heat to a low simmer. It will take several hours before garlic richly tans and becomes soft and sweet. Discard garlic skins when released. 

  3. Preheat oven to 525º direct heat oven (NOT convection). 

  4. Form two flatbreads as discussed under dough basics and place either in a cookie sheet brushed with garlic oil or wooden paddle with course corn meal if cooking on a stone. Prick dough either with a folk or a docker tool (roller with spikes and a handle to uniformly prick dough).

  5. Brush surface with garlic oil. Smush garlic and thinly spread over surfaces. Spoon more olive oil and solids (rosemary needles and pepper flakes) over. 

  6. Place in the preheated oven. After about 4-5 minutes, halfway through cooking, sprinkle with shredded parmigiana cheese and resume cooking. Total cooking time will be 8-10 minutes. Cut and serve. 
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