Moreno Pizza ★ 4.6
Moreno serves Gothenburg's best Neapolitan pizza from a wood-fired oven in Majorna, with blistered crusts, San Marzano sauce and a short seasonal menu.
Order: ['Margherita', 'Nduja and honey pizza', 'Tiramisu']
Make it at home
Ingredients
- For the dough: 500g 00 flour (W260+ pizza flour)
- 325ml cold water
- 12g fine sea salt
- 1g instant yeast
- For the topping per pizza: 80g San Marzano DOP tomato (crushed by hand, lightly salted)
- 70g fior di latte mozzarella
- 5 basil leaves
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- pinch of Maldon
- Optional Gothenburg touch: 30g cold-smoked Swedish whitefish or aged Vasterbotten cheese, added off-heat
- Equipment: pizza steel or stone, peel, oven that reaches 280C minimum
Method
- Mix water and yeast. Add flour, mix to a shaggy dough, rest 20 minutes (autolyse).
- Add salt. Knead 10 minutes by hand or 4 minutes in a stand mixer until smooth and elastic.
- Bulk-ferment at room temperature for 4 hours, then refrigerate 18 to 24 hours.
- Three hours before baking, divide dough into 4 balls of 200g each. Rest covered at room temperature.
- Heat oven to its maximum (ideally 280C+) with a steel or stone on the middle rack for 1 hour.
- Stretch a ball gently with your fingertips, leaving a 1.5cm puffed rim. Do not roll with a pin.
- Spoon tomato across the centre. Tear mozzarella over. Drizzle a circle of olive oil.
- Slide onto the steel with a peel. Bake 5 to 7 minutes until rim is leopard-spotted and the centre is just set. Tear basil over the top, finish with Maldon.
Tip from the editors. Domestic ovens cap out under a real Naples 450C wood oven; a steel preheated for at least 1 hour at maximum oven temperature is the single biggest variable for home Neapolitan.
Where to eat neapolitan pizza
Neapolitan Pizza in Gothenburg
Grano ★ 4.5
Grano in Vasastaden extends its pizza al taglio service to 22:00 on Fridays and Saturdays, with the long-fermented Roman base holding up beautifully.
Order: ['Potato and rosemary slice', 'Late evening special slice', 'Tomato and anchovy']
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