Recipe: Steak, Mushroom & Caramelized Onion Pizza

We've taken to making some sort of pizza once a month or so.  It's versatile and fast, particularly if you buy pre-made dough. 

I know, making pizza dough is not that hard and really doesn't take all that much time but sometimes one wants convenience.  So I've been buying Portland Pie's ready-made pizza dough, which comes in several varieties and is available at local grocery stores.

Until I started using parchment paper I would inevitably wind up with a hot mess about two times out of every three I attempted to transfer a pizza onto a baking stone.  Surely I am not the first person to think of this, but rolling the dough out on parchment paper is so much easier and less messy than cornmeal.  Just slide the peel under the parchment and the parchment, with the pizza on it, slides right off onto the hot stone.  

Steak, Mushroom & Caramelized Onion Pizza

2-3 yellow onions
Olive oil
1 8-oz steak
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 8-oz (dr wt) can mushroom stems and pieces, drained
Dough for 2 pizzas
Shredded mozzarella
Parmesan

Slice the onions into 1/4" wedges.  Heat a bit of oil in a large skillet and add the onions.  Cook over low heat, covered, until lightly browned and soft, about 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, season the steak with salt and pepper and make your husband grill it to medium rare.  Allow to rest for ten minutes, then slice very thinly across the grain.  Set aside.

Preheat oven to 425 with a pizza stone on the middle rack.  When the onions are soft, add the garlic, mushrooms, steak and accumulated juices to the skillet and heat through. 

Roll the first ball of dough out very thinly on a piece of parchment paper.  Brush with olive oil and spread generously with shredded mozzarella cheese.  Sprinkle lightly with Parmesan, then spread half the onion mixture evenly on top.  Bake 10-12 minutes. 

Prepare the second pizza while the first one cooks.

Serves 6.