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Home Made Pizza Recipes
If you have never tried any pizza recipes at home, give some of these member's favourites a go. You can adapt to your own tastes as well!
SUES PIZZA BASE WITH YEAST
21G dried yeast
30g castor sugar
625mls tepid water
2 lb Italian flour [ or 1 lb and 1lb plain flour]
1 oz salt
Dissolve yeast,sugar in half the water, add this to the flour, and then gradually add the rest of the flour
Knead 5 mins, sit to rise covered with glad wrap, about 1 hour. Punch down for 1 minute. Divide into four to make pizzas.
SUES TOMATO SAUCE FOR PIZZA
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 small white onion, diced
2 crushed garlic
1 large tin tomatoes diced
¼ cup tomato paste 1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon oregano
Mix all together, keep in fridge a few days, or freeze for 6 weeks.
VIDEO DEMO - MAKING A HOME-MADE MARGHERITA PIZZA
Jen's WOOD FIRED PIZZA METHOD
Always developing ways of 'getting the goods' without the time involved, I use turkish bread as a base, throw on the topping and cook in my chimnea oven. (what!? you dont have an oven for your Chimnea yet?) Look into it, you cant be burning wood just to look at the pretty flames!
While I am in the kitchen anyway I make extras and then next time I just hook the out the pizza from the freezer two hours or more before and into the oven they go.
(If you dont have a wood fired oven, turn your regular oven up on max, pre-heat 10 minutes and then cook your pizza on 200 degrees C only until cheese melts. The base of the turkish bread will crisp up differently in each oven, you need to do some trialing.
THE TOPPINGS
I first use yoghurt(sheeps yoghurt for us but you could use any thick yoghurt) smeared all over the turkish bread (this is because I always cook enough to provide school lunches for two days following and the yoghurt keeps the moisture content high, so it isn't dried out later).
MARGHERITA - After the thin layer of yoghurt, smear your tomato sauce over the yoghurt (I use canned diced tomatoes with fresh garlic and herbs (your choice of the day), puree it all a bit more with the blender). You could use tomato paste with it, but I keep the natural MSG to a minimum. Just add grated mozzarella, plus oregano and you have yourself a Margherita. We like a bit of Fetta on ours as well.(more like a Margarika!)
INDIAN STYLE - Instead of the tomato sauce, I spread a Korma paste,(or your favourite Indian curry paste) then add Mushrooms diced, diced onions, avocado sliced, shredded cooked chicken and then mozzarella cheese all over. Imagine Bollywood meets Rocky Balboa!)
MEAT LOVERS - This can be adapted for your own personal preferences. I just use the yoghurt and then the tomato sauces, then sprinkle, cooked mince meat(ground beef, lamb or chicken), mild salami and good old mozzarella. Some like it with BBQ sauce as well.
Make your favourite toppings it is fun to experiment because you havn't spent a heap of time, yeast or expense on the bases.
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