Say hello to the tortizza, a dinner life raft

By Eric Kim, The New York Times

When it archetypal opened successful 2018, the Manhattan barroom and vodka distillery Our/New York would service makeshift tortilla pizzas that had been rapidly burnished successful a toaster oven down the bar. The laminitis and partner, Dave Ortiz, got the thought from his friend, cook Ilan Hall. “Long communicative short: A personage cook hooked maine up,” helium said.

The medium-size flour tortillas — affectionately called “tortizzas” by the patrons — were draped successful herb sauce, ricotta food and red-pepper flakes. They were marvelous (and escaped of charge).

You’ll person to wage for your ain tortillas, but erstwhile prepared astatine home, the tortizza tin beryllium a delicate gaffe of a weeknight imagination — a beingness raft erstwhile clip is of the essence. Although you tin usage maize tortillas for this dish, the moisture successful flour tortillas volition origin them to puff up successful spots erstwhile baked successful a blistery oven, and those bites are the astir amusive to eat.

Crispy-edged and light, similar lither thin-crust pizzas, tortizzas tin beryllium topped with immoderate you similar and thing you don’t. These tortizzas see a furniture of shredded mozzarella food that, erstwhile melted successful the oven, creates a sturdy obstruction for the toppings. A dusting of dried oregano someway makes everything sensation of pizza parlor incarnate. The topping, inspired by a Greek crockery — and specifically, California Pizza Kitchen’s now-discontinued Greek pizza — is simply a medley of diced cucumbers and tomatoes and slivers of creamy avocado. Feta delivers sharpness and dreaminess, arsenic does the elemental garlicky yogurt condiment (a mates of ingredients shy of a tzatziki).

As with the champion lad bands, Ben & Jerry’s crystal pick flavors and radical projects for school, the crockery topping is overmuch greater than the sum of each of its caller ingredients. Enjoy the motley unit of tastes and textures.

Don’t skip the past part: honey. It mightiness dependable retired of spot here, but that aureate sweetness, dribbled astatine the extremity implicit the vegetables, truly brings unneurotic each of the disparate bits and bobs of this different savory recipe. Anyway, chromatic is simply a fashionable accompaniment for Italian pizzas with soppressata and besides happens to beryllium a favored dipping condiment for pizza successful South Korea.

These tortizzas devour level similar tostadas but are much yielding, similar solo pizzas. But it’s your life: Feel escaped to fold them similar tacos oregon gyro wraps. When it comes to the tortizza, each that matters is that it ends up successful your mouth.

Perhaps the champion portion of this crockery is that it takes astir 15 minutes to make, from commencement to finish, which leaves plentifulness of clip to get connected with your day. One utile instrumentality is to marque the crockery topping and yogurt condiment successful advance, some of which volition support successful an airtight instrumentality successful the refrigerator for a time oregon two. That way, erstwhile you request a speedy bite, each you person to bash is lukewarm up the tortillas and heap connected the toppings.

Tortizzas

Yield: 4 servings

Total time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 3 to 4 Persian oregon mini seedless cucumbers, scrubbed and chopped into 1/2-inch dice (about 2 cups)
• 2 ripe mean tomatoes, chopped into 1/2-inch dice (about 2 cups)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher brackish (Diamond Crystal)
• 8 (6-inch) brushed flour tortillas
• 2 cups shredded low-moisture mozzarella
• 2 teaspoons dried oregano, za’atar oregon Italian seasoning
• 1 cupful plain yogurt
• 1 ample ail clove, finely grated
• 1 tablespoonful caller citrus juice
• 2 teaspoons honey, positive much for drizzling
• 1 cupful crumbled feta
• 1 ripe Hass avocado, halved and thinly sliced
• 1/2 cupful packed caller flat-leaf parsley leaves and tender stems

Preparation

1. Place racks successful precocious and little thirds of oven and vigor oven to 400 degrees. Line 2 ample expanse pans with parchment paper.

2. Toss the cucumbers, tomatoes and 1/2 spoon brackish successful a colander acceptable successful the descend and flip to combine. Let beryllium to drain excess liquid, astir 10 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, put the tortillas connected the expanse pans, 4 per pan, and sprinkle each with the mozzarella and dried oregano. Bake until the food is melted and lightly browned, and the tortillas’ edges are crispy but inactive pale, 8 to 10 minutes.

4. While the tortillas are baking, marque the yogurt sauce: In a tiny vessel oregon measuring cup, whisk unneurotic the yogurt, garlic, citrus juice, chromatic and the remaining 1 spoon salt.

5. To serve, evenly disagreement the drained cucumbers and tomatoes among the tortillas. Top each with feta, avocado and parsley, and spoon the yogurt condiment implicit everything, leaving immoderate backmost to service connected the side. As a last flourish, lightly drizzle the tortizzas with honey. You tin devour these level similar mini pizzas oregon folded similar tacos.

This nonfiction primitively appeared successful The New York Times.

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