Today we had just enough time to make home made Pizzas.
While you can get ready made pizza bases, using the ciabatta bread mix is just as easy.
It takes a little longer to prepare, but making the dough yourself for the pizza bases ma
kes the home made pizzas taste better as the dough is freshly made and bakes really well.
Follow the instructions on the chiabatta bread mix pack, adding warm water to the flour and using the dough mixer attachment for a whisk, mix thoroughly.
Leave the mix to prove so that it rises. It usually doubles in size.
Divide the mix in half. One half can be baked to make rolls or dough balls.
The other half, divide into 4 equal balls of dough and roll out.
For the sauce, this was just a tin of tomato puree sieved to remove some of the juice. It can be a tin of chopped tomatoes if you don’t have tinned tomato puree. Add any herbs, fresh or dry oregano or basil.
Choose the toppings. For a simple margarita pizza, just add as much grated mozzarella and grated cheddar as you like.
As we had some Gorgonzola, we put this on my pizza along with some sliced mushrooms and slices of salami.
These Pizzas bake in 15-20 minutes at 220c. Check them at around 15 minutes to see if they are done.
We received a Pizza stone for Christmas, so each Pizza went in separately, and were eaten as soon as they came out of the oven.
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