Pizza Perfect!

Hello everyone!

For quite a while I had the urge to make home-made pizza, I haven't made it since cooking at school in year 8 (5 years ago :o) Last Tuesday after going food shopping, rather early for a day off college, I got all the ingredients I needed to make the perfect pizza. First I had to make enough room and clean the work top for me to roll out the dough. Then the cooking was commenced! 

Ingredients:

(For the base)

*300g strong bread flour (you can you white or whole meal)

*1tsp yeast

*1tsp salt

*1tbsp cooking oil

*200ml water

(For the toppings)

*grated cheese (as much or as little as you want)

*tomato purée

*any other toppings you feel like makes a pizza yummy to you; meat, veg (I chose   chicken strips, sweetcorn and red pepper)  
Pre-heat the oven to 240c/ gas mark 7

Method:

1. First I found a big mixing bowl and into this I put the flour, salt and yeast. Mix these together.

2. Make a whole in centre of the mix, then pour in the cooking oil and water. Stir all of these ingredients together until you achieve a soft dough.

3. Move the dough onto a floured surface and knead until it is smooth. Set the dough to the side and cover to allow it to rise. 

4. Whilst waiting for your dough to rest, you could start to prepare your meat or veg for the toppings.

5. When you feel that the dough is ready (your own judgement). Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough to the width and size you would like. (When rolling mine out, it was more of a deep pan pizza, if you prefer thin crust split the dough in half and make two pizzas).

6. Lift the base(s) onto greased tray(s) or baking sheet(s).

7. Onto the pizza dough base smother it with the purée with a spoon and sprinkle the cheese over the top. Scatter the rest of your toppings over the pizza and place into the oven to be cooked.

8. Leave in the oven for 10-15 minutes and serve when done. 

I hope that this recipe works for you, by all means take a look and change or add things you feel necessary. If you do make it, you could leave comments on how yours turned out.

Thank you for reading yet another blog post of mine, this one was a little different and I hope you liked it! :)