Overcooked: Mushroom Pizza

It is the end of times and the beast is upon us. Our Onion Kingdom is facing its end but we stand here to prevent total annihilation! Sharpen your knives and ready your pans. This may very well be the last meal you make.

Arf!

Kevin is correct! This will not be your last. You will bring victory to this kingdom! With your skills of culinary mastery you will bring this beast down. He demands to be fed. Act swiftly and cook as one. If you fault in the kitchen, this will be our end. It is up to you four chefs to save our people!

Overcooked is one of my favorite couch multiplayer games of the past few years. The chaos that can occur is amazing. I mostly played the game just with my husband but have had the joy of playing it with four players too. With a full group, the layers of madness run high. The only way to make sure you get orders out of the kitchen is by working together and playing a specific role. If too many people try to work on the same task, you’ll end up messing things up and just having angry customers.

There are many fun and simple recipes to be made from Overcooked and I’m surprised it has taken me this long to make something from the game. The announcement of Overcooked 2 reminded me about the series and I got working on a recipe. For the first recipe, we are taking a look at the mushroom pizza. When looking at the recipe I wanted to highlight the chaos in the game by loading the dough up with a large amount of spices. These spices compliment the mushrooms perfectly and really make for a very flavorful pizza.

Ingredients:
Dough
690 grams bread flour
5 grams active dry yeast
10 grams sugar
5 grams salt
4 grams garlic powder
2 grams onion powder
3 grams thyme
2 grams caraway seeds, crushed
2 cups water
2 tbsp olive oil

Toppings
2 shallots, sliced

16 oz white mushrooms, sliced
8 oz baby portobello mushrooms, sliced
1 tsp sage
2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp rosemary
1 tsp thyme
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
¼ tsp red pepper flakes

pizza sauce
mozzarella cheese
cornmeal

One day before you plan to make the pizza, you need to prepare the dough. Place the flour, yeast, sugar, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, thyme, and caraway in the bowl of a stand mixer. In a small bowl, combine the water and olive oil. Pour the liquid into the bowl of the stand mixer.

Place the bowl in the stand mixer and mix on low with a dough hook until all the ingredients come together. When it has formed into a ball, increase the speed of the mixer to medium and knead in the machine for five minutes.

Lightly flour your countertop and place the kneaded dough there. Smooth the dough into a ball. Spray a large bowl with nonstick spray (or rub with olive oil). Place the dough ball into the bowl and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Place in the refrigerator for 18-24 hours.

The next day, remove the dough from the refrigerator at least 30 minutes before you start to prepare your pizza. Punch the dough down and place it onto a lightly floured countertop. Form a ball. Cover with a clean towel and let it rest for a half hour.

Heat a frying pan over medium-high heat. Spray with nonstick spray and allow to heat up. Add the shallots and saute until crispy.

Heat a frying pan over medium-high heat. Spray with nonstick spray and allow to heat up. Add the mushrooms. Saute for 5 minutes and add the sage, garlic powder, rosemary, thyme, salt, black pepper, and red pepper flakes. Continue to saute until the vegetables crisp to your liking.

Preheat your oven to 475℉. After you have prepared the meats, it is time to form each half of the dough. Once again, make sure your countertop is lightly floured. Pound the dough into a disk shape.

Continue to stretch the dough into a disk shape. Stretch the dough until it is about the size of a large pizza. Prepare a round baking tray by spraying with nonstick spray and sprinkling with cornmeal. Place the dough onto the tray.

Spread the pizza sauce on top of the dough. Add as much as you like, this is your pizza after all!

Add a layer of mozzarella cheese. Top with the shallots and mushrooms.

Place the pizza in the oven and bake for ten minutes. Turn the pizza and then bake for another ten minutes or until the crust has browned nicely. After the pizza has cooked, remove it from the oven and allow it to rest for at least five minutes.