Make your own pizzas

Homemade pizzas

There is nothing that my kids like doing more in the kitchen than baking cakes, and making their own pizzas.

Of course, it can never be as good as a real authentic Italian pizza. The reason being that we do not have a wood-fired oven.

However, we do have a very simple recipe for easy pizza dough below. This gets results that are very close, as long as you use a nice hot oven. 

It is always a success. It is also quick and easy to make. Homemade pizzas are great!

Pizza ingredients

What you put on your pizza is up to you. Some people love a simple pizza margherita, for example: a simple cheese and tomato pizza.

In our house, we all have our own preferences, and the fun is designing your own with your favourite ingredients.

The great thing is you can just claim a larger part of the pizza by putting your favourite ingredients on it when you know no-one else likes them 🙂 !

Here we are not too fussy, although my daughter does not like onions, so we all pretty much eat anything.

So yesterday we put out a feast of ham, tomatoes, mushrooms, anchovies, salami, chorizo, mozzarella, cheddar cheese, onions, basil and sausage and guess what? It all went.

When choosing the passata, or tomato sauce, make sure you have strained tomatoes – ie uncooked tomatoes with no seeds or skins.

This gives the best authentic Italian pizza rossa (red pizza) results.

You also have pizza bianca (white pizza) which has no tomato sauce and just uses cheese, but we prefer the pizza rossa in our house.

The recipe below should give you 2 x 12 inch pizzas.

And believe me, these will taste much better than anything you buy ready-made in the supermarket.

In fact, when you make them yourselves you can make them exactly as you want so they should be PERFECT!!

Tips: Use a good non-stick pizza pan if you are cooking in the oven.

Alternatively use a real pizza oven if you are going to make them regularly and have the space to do it!

How to make your own pizzas

How to make pizza at home

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This recipe will give you a quick pizza dough for thin and crispy Italian pizzas that you can make yourself at home. You can use any tasty ingredients you like to top your pizza till you have your own perfect pizza recipe.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 ½ tbsp (10-12g) quick acting yeast
• 300ml warm water
• ¾ tsp salt
• 1 tsp caster sugar
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 500g white bread flour
• Tomato sauce / passata
• Mozzarella cheese
• Anything else you want to add - some ideas: salami, pepperoni, ham, sausage, artichokes, onions, mushrooms, corn, tomatoes, egg, peppers, chicken, shrimp and dare I say it: even pineapple maybe?!

Instructions

1. Dissolve the yeast in the warm water.
2. Add the salt, sugar and olive oil and mix well.
3. Then add the liquid mix to the flour in a bowl, bit by bit, and stir it together until you have a dough. Then flour a worktop and knead the dough together for 5 minutes until it is smooth. If it is too sticky then add a bit more flour. 
4. Then divide dough into 2 balls and roll the balls into circles and place onto oiled pizza trays. If you have any leftover dough it can be rolled into the edges to give a nice crispy crust. 
5. Make sure the dough is rolled thin enough to give a nice thin and crispy base.
6. Add the tomato passata on the top, spreading it round the pizza dough with the back of a spoon.
7. Then place the mozzarella cheese in suitable locations on the pizza, place the remaining ingredients to suit, and put in the pre-heated oven (200C) for 14-15 minutes. Check intermittently to make sure it is not burning. 
8. They should be ready when the ingredients have been cooked, and I like it when the crust is just beginning to burn.

Notes

After removing from the oven cut into slices (make sure everyone gets their own ingredients!) and serve up.

If you have any ingredients that take longer to cook than 15 minutes, you may wish to pre-cook them before adding. Similarly any ingredients that do not need so long to cook, you can add at a later stage of cooking.

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