Perfect Pizza Recipe - easy, homemade, tasty pizzas!

Hello food.....

Selection of Pizzas and Potato Wedges

I've been pretty obsessed with making pizza recently. Ever since my Jess's Messes pizza making party I just can't get enough of it. It's so easy to make some lovely light pizza dough and then it's just a case of making a tasty tomato base and choosing your toppings.

So, here is a recipe for the dough and the tomato base and a few topping suggestions!

Pizza Dough
What do I need?

• 300g Plain Flour
• 1 sachet (7g) of yeast
• Pinch of salt
• 10ml Olive oil
• 200g Warm water

What do I do?

1. Place the flour, yeast and salt in a bowl. Make a well in the centre and add oil and half the water.
2. Combine using your hand and gradually add the rest of the water until you have a soft, not too sticky dough, you may not need all the water!
3. Knead the dough for about 5 minutes until the dough is springy and shiny.
4. Place in a bowl, cover, leave to rise for an hour.

Tomato Base

What do I need?

• 200g passata
• 1 clove garlic
• Handful of fresh basil and oregano
• Salt and pepper

What do I do?

1. Place all ingredients in a bowl and combine.

The pizza making

1. Roll out the dough until reallllllllllly lovely and thin and cover with a thin layer of tomato base.
2. Add toppings and mozzarella cheese and bake in oven for 10-15 mins at 200 degrees C.
3. Eat and enjoy.

Toppings suggestions:

• Cherry tomato and basil
• Chorizo, red pepper and red onion
• Hoisin sauce (instead of tomato base), pork belly, spring onion and coriander
• Goats cheese, caramelised red onion, rock salt
• No tomato base - garlic butter and parsley

Pizza and Garlic Bread