Adam’s Sunday Square (Sicilian Pizza) Recipe
This is the L&B–inspired Sicilian pizza I’ve Instagrammed about. Fleshed out in recipe form due to popular demand. Enjoy!
This is the L&B–inspired Sicilian pizza I’ve Instagrammed about. Fleshed out in recipe form due to popular demand. Enjoy!
This post originally appeared in July 2009 on SliceNY.com when it was part of Serious Eats. It was scrubbed from SE in 2021. I’ve salvaged what I could of this post from the Wayback Machine and present it here.
The Brooklyn Firefly serves great pizza in a space that was once home to legendary Brooklyn pizzeria Lento’s. It’s a different pizza and different scene, but it’s a worthy successor.
Here, I do a quick peek at converting my Ooni Karu 16 from stock wood-burning mode to propane. It’s super quick and easy. If you own a Karu 16, you’re already familiar with it from installing the standard “Draft Defender.” Same process.
Even though I knew lugging the Ooni Karu 16 up to the Catskills was going to be a whole thing, it’s manageable. I’d imagine anyone with an SUV, minivan, or wagon would have an easier time.
This recipe is based off of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s Prince Street Pizza clone and is used in my Sunday Square Sicilian Pizza recipe. Kenji’s original recipe is for a same-day dough, but I reformulated my Sicilian pizza dough recipe for an overnight fermentation to help build more gluten strength.
A good New York–style pizza should be thin and crisp yet chewy and flexible. The cheese flavorful and oozy, not rubbery. The sauce can be as simple as crushed tomatoes with salt or a more herby blend. And it’s entirely possible to make at home. Here’s a quick recipe.
This is the recipe for NY-style pizza dough that I hand out when I do in-home pizzamaking workshops.