How to Make Spinach Pizza | Farm To Table
Aired (January 7, 2024): Chef JR Royol makes a pizza place favorite, the Spanish Pizza, from the ingredients found in New Greenland Community Model Farm.
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00:00 For our food adventure today, we traveled to Union for an exciting and new food experience.
00:08 I like the kick of the spicy, and the briny taste of the crab meat. I love it.
00:16 This is also two shots, ma'am.
00:18 And unsweetened? Why is it so sweet?
00:22 Are you bitter?
00:24 I don't know.
00:26 I think this is where he shows his bitterness in life.
00:30 We'll go on a food trip to one of the iconic food places in Maguindahua.
00:34 We only started like a garage, a hole in the wall.
00:38 We're just thinking about how many people we'll serve in one day.
00:42 Maybe not even 100.
00:44 And we'll prepare delicious dishes from the freshest ingredients from a farming community in the city.
00:50 We'll make spinach pizza.
00:54 This is usually the ingredient that we include in savory dishes.
00:59 But for this one, we'll make the sauce that's made from the squash.
01:06 Let's go food it up in our food exploration.
01:10 The New Greenland Community Model Farm here in the new island, Quezon City.
01:20 I'm with Muena, one of the hardworking farmers here,
01:24 who served as my tour guide in this 7-hectare urban farm
01:28 that was built in 2021 to serve as the vegetable capital of the city.
01:33 Cabbage, squash, there's petchay, there's spinach.
01:41 What else did I see there? You have tomatoes there, right?
01:48 With the help of the farmers here,
01:51 the community of residents of the new island got regular fresh food
01:57 and of course, livelihood for the urban farmers who work here.
02:02 So one of the things we harvested earlier is their spinach.
02:14 And you'll notice that wherever you go to the pizza place,
02:17 this flavor is already there.
02:19 We'll make spinach pizza.
02:21 We'll make our own dough from scratch.
02:28 So this is our all-purpose flour.
02:30 So let's start with our dry ingredients.
02:33 We'll also add in some salt.
02:36 Of course, our flour already has its natural sugar.
02:43 But to make the dough rise faster, let's add a little sugar.
02:48 And then finally, our yeast for our dry ingredients.
02:52 Let's add water.
03:08 If your mixture or dough you're making has an oil-based or fat ingredient,
03:14 I would suggest that you add it last.
03:17 In this case, we added the water first.
03:20 Then we'll let the all-purpose flour absorb the water before you add the oil.
03:26 Because what will happen is it won't be totally absorbed if you add both liquid ingredients at the same time.
03:35 This is what we call the autolyse process in baking.
03:40 You'd normally want to let it stand for at least 30 minutes
03:44 so that the particles or the pieces of our all-purpose flour will be totally hydrated.
03:51 Once you're happy with your dough,
03:53 you'll think that your dough is fully hydrated,
03:56 then we'll add our fat or in this case, our olive oil.
04:00 [music]
04:10 I'm satisfied with our dough.
04:12 Let's rest it.
04:13 While the dough is resting, let's prepare our sauce.
04:18 We'll add our spinach.
04:21 We'll remove the stem from the leaves.
04:24 We'll also heat up some water to blanch it.
04:28 [blanching]
04:32 We'll just dunk our spinach in the boiling water.
04:38 We can turn off the heat after 30 seconds.
04:42 [music]
04:55 To remove the excess moisture, we'll just cover it.
04:59 [music]
05:09 After removing the excess moisture, we can now chop it.
05:12 [chopping]
05:25 After the dough doubles in size,
05:28 this is what we call the first rise.
05:31 We'll deflate it.
05:33 We'll just roll it again.
05:35 Then we'll portion our dough.
05:39 [music]
06:08 [music]
06:13 We've cut and shaped our dough into portions.
06:16 Another critical step is to let them rise again.
06:20 After that, we can shape it into the pizza we know.
06:24 Then we can put it in the oven.
06:27 [music]
06:34 Our spinach is ready.
06:36 Blanched, squeezed, and chopped.
06:40 We can now add cream cheese.
06:43 Our cream cheese is now softened.
06:46 Since it will be the most topping or sauce,
06:54 it depends on your preference if you want it to be thick or thick.
06:58 But I prefer to make it thinner with all-purpose cream.
07:03 [music]
07:08 If you'll notice, our mixture is on the thick side.
07:13 You can add salt or any other seasoning you prefer.
07:17 But if you want it to be more cheesy,
07:20 it's like a pull when you're taking a slice of pizza,
07:25 we can use parmesan.
07:27 [music]
07:39 Our spinach mixture is now ready.
07:42 We have the dough that's rested.
07:44 We can now shape our pizza.
07:46 We'll just add oil so that the dough won't stick.
07:51 [music]
07:57 Our peeled tomatoes.
08:00 [music]
08:05 Finally, our spinach.
08:08 [music]
08:16 Let's plate it.
08:19 [music]
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08:49 [music]
08:55 [BLANK_AUDIO]