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📋 Pizzette Recipe Mini Pizza Bites

These pizzette, mini pizza bites, are a classic Italian street food you find at Cafes and bakeries to buy and eat on the go. They are also very popular to serve at children's parties and informal buffets.
Course Appetizer
Cuisine Italian
Keyword mini pizza, pizza bites, pizzette bites
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Resting time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 50 minutes
Servings 40 pizzette bites
Calories 69kcal

Ingredients

For the topping

Instructions

Making the dough

  • Melt the butter with the milk in the microwave for 1 minute at low power
    1 cup milk, ¼ cup melted butter
  • Let them cool down before you add the egg otherwise, the egg will cook
  • Add one egg and mix until all the wet ingredients are combined
    1 fresh eggs
  • Mix the two flours
    3 cups Manitoba flour, 1 cup Caputo flour 00
  • Add the salt and the sugar and stir with a fork
    2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon caster sugar
  • Pour the wet ingredients into the bread machine bucket
  • Add the dry ingredients
  • Last, add the dry yeast
    1 package yeast
  • Place the basket in the bread machine with the cycle "Dough". The dough will be ready in 1.5 hours

Shaping the pizzette

  • Place the dough on a well-floured surface
  • Cut the dough into 40 pieces
  • Make 40 little balls
  • Open the dough press, place a sheet of parchment paper on the bottom disc of the dough press, and dust with flour
  • Place a well-floured dough ball in the center
  • Cover with another sheet of parchment paper
  • Close the press and press the dough
  • Remove the pizzetta round and start again
  • Until all the balls are pressed

Baking the pizzette

  • Place the pizzette dough on a baking pan covered with parchment paper
  • Pour half spoon of tomato sauce on each pizzetta and sprinkle some salt
    3.5 oz tomato sauce, 1 teaspoon salt
  • Spread the tomato sauce around the pizzette with the back of a spoon
  • Add some chopped basil
    ½ cup chopped basil leaves
  • Bake in a hot oven at 355 F - 180 C for 20 minutes
  • Top with half of the mozzarella bites while they are still warm
    3 oz fresh mozzarella
  • They can be served warm or at room temperature

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Notes

  • If you don't have a microwave you can melt it over a regular stove.
  • Before you add the egg into the mix, make sure they are at room temperature otherwise the egg will cook in the hot milk
  • If you don't have a bread machine you can check the article: how to make dough without the bread machine
  • If you don't have a dough press you can shape the rounds by rolling the dough and using a cookie cutter or a glass to cut the round shapes.
  • You will probably have to bake the pizzette in batches as they will not all fit at once into a large baking pan

Nutrition

Calories: 69kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 9mg | Sodium: 157mg | Potassium: 35mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 92IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 21mg | Iron: 1mg