Home Made Pizza Made Easy

You don’t need a pizza pan or oven to make your own delicious pizzas at home, 

why buy pizzas if you can make it a fun family experience…

What you will need:

Equipment:

A frying pan

Oven and stove top

Wooden spoon

Mixing bowl

Cooking oil

For the dough:

250 g semolina flour

250 g cake wheat flour

10 g dry yeast

1 tbsp. salt

4 tbsp.’s olive oil or normal cooking oil

1 tbsp. sugar

300 ml Luke warm water

For the topping:

Go wild, even better, if each one can choose their own toping and finish of their pizzas on their own. What I’ve used in the photo is a mixture of tomato paste and sweet chili sauce for the base, some bacon that I pre-fried in a pan (can never be to careful with pork), some palony cut into small blocks, pineapple pieces, mozzarella and cheddar cheese (mozzarella always goes on last, as it keeps the topping together on the pizza), and of course some dried or fresh oregano and parsley.

Method:

Mix the sugar and yeast into the Luke warm water and let it rest while you start with the mixing of the dry ingredients.

Sift the flours and salt into a bigish mixing bowl, make a hole/well in the middle, pour in the oil and yeast mixture.

Take a wooden spoon and mix the flour from the rim inwards to the wet mixture, once you have a dough mixture you can kneed it a bit with your hands. Pour the dough out onto your floured work surface (you can use normal cake flour for this).

This is where the hard work starts to knead the dough, you should knead it at least for 10 min (or if you are lucky enough to have a mixer, rather opt for that, the more you knead it, the more you activate the gluten) you can either put the dough mixture into a mixing bowl and cover it with a cloth or put it into a mixing bowl and cover it, remember you need a warm place for the dough to rise, let it rise for at least an hour.

After the hour you can start knead the dough again for 2 min, depending of the size of the pizza’s you want to make, divide the dough into smaller pieces, I wanted my pizzas to be the size of my pan, so I divided it into 8 balls.

Roll one ball out to the size of you pan at a time, remember to keep the other dough balls covered, otherwise they start to dry out.

Pour just enough cooking oil into your pan to cover the base, I had the stove top on number 1 heat setting as you don’t need allot of heat to cook the base of you pizza, + - 7 or until you can see the base has a nice brown colour underneath.

I made all my pizza bases first and then added the toppings on afterwards.

You can use your normal grill rack to put the pizzas under the grill until the Mozzarella has browned.

A little trick I also like to do, is to mix crushed garlic with butter and brush the outer rim of the pizzas to get it extra crispy.

And enjoy with friends and family,

Happy Cooking,