The Amish Paste tomato is one of my favorite tomatoes to cook with, it has a firm texture that holds up during cooking, it has less seeds and is more meaty, it makes great tomato paste because of its flavor and heartiness. It also makes wonderful sauce and cans well. Something else that it is good for is putting on Margherita Pizza, it stays firm and doesn’t get mushy like most tomatoes that are too juicy and makes the pizza soggy. I thought you might like this recipe.
Margherita Pizza
Ingredients
Pizza Dough, this can be home made or purchased from the store
Cornmeal or Semolina
1/2 cup of a good thick and flavorful pizza sauce, try adding in a little red wine and cooking it down
5 or 6 slices Fresh Mozzarella
1 Thinly sliced Amish Paste tomatoes
Fresh basil leaves for garnish
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
- Make sure dough has time to proof, or warm up, it stretches better if it is room temperature (if it is homemade dough, it works best if it is refrigerated for a couple hours before using and then brought out to proof)
- Lightly spray pizza pan with cooking spray. Put cornmeal or semolina onto a cookie sheet, flatten the dough into a circle, making it as big and as even as to can in the cookie sheet, Once. you get it flattened out, carefully pick it up and lay it across the backs to your hands, lightly struck the dough as you turn it, you dont have to go crazy and through it up in the air, stretch until it is about about 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick and the size of your pan, carefully lay it on the pan, this is something that gets better with practice, once you get it you will never forget how its done. Pinch the dough so that the edges higher to give it a puffed up edge and to kiss the sauce from running out.
- Ladle the sauce onto the dough and spread to the edges.
- Arrange the tomato slices and mozzarella cheese slices on top of the sauce.
- Bake in the oven, check it at 15 minutes for brownness, lift up the crust, you are looking for a golden brown color, keep checking every 5 minutes after that until that is achieved. Every pizza varies because of thickness variation, take it out when golden brown on the bottom.
- Garnish with fresh basil and drizzle with the balsamic glaze. Enjoy!
Here is some growing info on the Amish Paste Tomato, they do well in my zone, which is 8B, They are a staple in my garden, I hope you consider growing them in yours.
- Indeterminate
- Fruit Description: Red, tangy, more fleshy and less seeds, very flavorful
- Type: heirloom
- Size of Fruit:6 to 8 ounces
- Maturity: 81 to 85 days
- Mature Plant Height: 5 to 7 feet
- Place of Origin: Medford, Wisconsin
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
- Soil Type: Moist but Well-Drained, Rich
Amish Paste Tomato Seeds For Sale in our Country Store
I will also have Amish Paste Tomato Starts available around the end of March ( local pick up only)
Photo Credits:
Grzegorz W. Tężycki, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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