Homemade Diy Pizza!

Try your hands at making your very own pizza from scratch at half the cost of a delivered pizza!

Ingredients

• For the pizza base:
• 300g strong white bread flour
• 1/2 sachet dried yeast
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 200ml lukewarm water
• for the tomato base:
• 100ml passata
• 1/2 red onion, finely sliced
• 1 tsp dried/fresh basil
• 1 tsp sugar
• ground pepper & salt
• topping – pick as choose as you please:
• meats such as cooked pancetta/bacon/ham, chicken or beef meatballs
• fish such as tuna or prawns
• vegetables such as diced peppers, spinach sweetcorn, mushrooms or pineapple (if your into hawaiian!)
• cheeses such as grated cheddar, shredded mozzerella or ricotta

Instructions

STEP 1:

1) to start with, lets make the pizza base. Simply combine all the base ingredients – so the flour, salt, yeast, warm water and oil – and form into a dough.

STEP 2:

sprinkle a bit of extra flour onto a kitchen surface and give the dough a good knead for 5-10 minutes. You basically need to stretch the dough with your palm, and if you don’t break out in a little sweat then you’re not doing it right!

STEP 3:

once kneaded, the dough should be soft – leave in the bowl and allow to rest.

STEP 4:

2) fry the red onion slightly on a low heat until soft in a little oil, then add the rest of the ingredients for the sauce and set aside to cool.

STEP 5:

3) preheat the oven to 220c, then you can start to shape your pizza bases. Half the dough and roll out – if you have rectangular baking trays then simply roll out the shame shape with abit extra to form a crust. If using traditional circular trays, give the dough a little roll then gently pull and tug the dough edges to form a circular shape – again, leaving a bit extra to form a crust.

STEP 6:

4) place your dough onto your trays, and roll over any extra dough to form a circular crust – then spoon over your delicious base tomato sauce then top with your choice of toppings. I recommend layering the meat first, then the veg and finally the cheese on top so it has a chance to bubble and turn golden in the oven.

STEP 7:

5) slide into the oven and bake for 12-15 mintues or until crispy and golden then cut into 8 even slices and serve to your house/flatmates using the scizza – that way there will be no arguements over who has had the biggest or smallest slice!