How to make Pizza
This isn’t going to make the ‘perfect’ pizza that you’ll get from Pizza Hut…but it’s a great recipe that the kids will be able to bake and you’ll all enjoy and it’s about as healthy as a pizza can get.
I make this most Saturday mornings with my 7 year old. The great thing about it is that you can put whatever you like on the top – and even when it’s the same old cheese and ham – it’s never the same as before. Strangely.
Pizza dough
For one large, 2 medium or lots of small pizzas – this is enough for us to feed 4 people lunch. (Just halve the amount for just 2.)
- 300g self raising flour
- 50g unsalted butter
- 100ml milk – you may need more so keep it to hand.
Pizza sauce
For the sauce you have a couple of options, you can spread some tomato puree over the rolled out base, it works ok but can be a little dry so consider more wet toppings. Better would be passata, better still a pre-prepared pizza sauce.
Make your own pizza sauce
Mix the following ingredients to make a lovely pizza sauce, you can also add in an onion, and even chilli flakes for an extra kick. There’s no rules!
- a tin chopped tomatoes (blended and sieved) or bottle of passata
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 2 crushed garlic cloves
- 1 tsp dried oregano, or any mixed dried herbs
- 1 tsp
- generous pinch of sugar
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Method
Put the oven on to gas mark 6.
Throw the dough ingredients into the mixer (or knead it until it’s a nice ball of dough).
Roll it out as much as you can/want to and place it on a baking tray. Or you can use a cutter to make lots of small pizzas.
Add a layer of tomato puree/passata/marinara sauce, followed by grated cheese, ham, tomatoes, sweetcorn, mushrooms – just about anything you fancy – just pile it all on.
Cook for about 15 minutes, cut it up and eat.
Fabulous.
