Kitchen Corner

September 26, 2008

Vegetable Pizza

I followed a pizza dough and tomato sauce recipe from Jamie Oliver (Jamie's Dinner). Again, his recipe is wonderful! I've never failed by using his recipe. For the topping, I simply sliced some mushroom, red and green pepper and finally topped with some cheddar and mozzarella cheese. I would say, the tomato sauce makes the pizza smell very good and delicious. Recipe for quickest tomato sauce: I made 250ml (you might not need to use all) 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely sliced a bunch of fresh basil leaves, picked an torn 600g tins of whole plum tomatoes sea salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 dry bay leave
  1. Fry the garlic with some olive oil in a pan then add in basil and tomatoes. Using the back of the spoon, mush and squash the tomatoes as much as you can.Season the sauce with salt and pepper and add the bay leave.
  2. Let it simmer at the medium low heat. The tomatoes will break into puree. Let it cook for 15 minutes until the mixture puree and dry. Leave to cool and ready to use.

Recipe for the dough: I made two pieces of 8 inches pizza

200g bread flour / 1/4 tbps fine sea salt / 3.5g yeast / 5g sugar / 163g water

  1. Knead all the ingredients until smooth springy soft dough, cover it with clingfilm and let it rest for 1 hour until the dough has double in size.
  2. Knocking back the dough by kneading and pushing the air out with your hands. Divide the dough up into 2 balls and rest for 15 minutes.
  3. Roll the doughs into circles about 0.5cm thick and place on a flour-dusted tinfoil then proof for 40 minutes. Place the foil together with the dough on a pre-warmed flat baking tray or pizza stone. The dough will start to bubble and cook immediately.
  4. Then quickly spoon 3 to 4 tablespoons of tomato sauce into the middle and spread it out evenly. Add all the ingredients like vege, ham etc. Then top with cheese and season with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil.
  5. Place the pizza in the 220'C preheated oven and cook for 10 minutes until the pizza base is golden, bubbly and crisp around the edges and the tomato and cheese topping is melted.

11 comments:

martina said...

Hi Grace!
Pizza looks very nice! For italians like me pizza is always interesting...but why cheddar? It's a strange feeling thinking of cheddar pizza, but maybe is it not possible for you to find mozzarella cheese?Sometimes it's difficult for me too (I live in Ireland). But I'm sure even with cheddar your pizza tastes great!It's fantastic that "italian food" is mixed with non-italian ingredients to become everyone food. Keep doing italian stuff
Martina

Anonymous said...

this looks really good, good job!

Passionate About Baking said...

Hi Grace,
I've always like the way you display your food. It always look so tempting, even though I prefer pizzas with meats. :p I'm not a meat eater though. Heehee...

Kitchen Corner said...

Hi Skinnymum,
Hi Jane,
Thanks for your lovely words!

Kitchen Corner said...

Hi Martina,
Thanks for your kind words. I used cheddar and mozzarella for the pizza. I used cheddar because I like to have much cheese flavor. Overall, the mozarella went very well with the cheddar. Cheers!

Passionate About Baking said...

Hi Grace,
I agree with you. One of my baking course mate ever shared with us, that for pizza, it's better to use two kinds of cheese. One for the bottom and the other on top. I also usually use Cheddar & Mozzarella for my pizzas. They are really flavourful! I'm like you, I just love cheeses! ;) (Maybe I'm mouse, that's why! Are you?)

Kitchen Corner said...

Oppsss! who move my cheese? kekeke... must be you, Jane! Haha, I'm not mouse, I'm monkey hehehe..but we've same taste.

martina said...

How many things I've to learn even more...I've never tried cheddar pizza yet! It's a strange things because mice have never steal me cheese...(I love cats!!) I'll try soon the new recipe!! Cheers Martina

Kitchen Corner said...

Hi Martina,
Just to clarify, this is not a cheddar pizza. It's a combination of mozzarella and cheddar pizza. I used 2/3 of mozzarella and 1/3 of cheddar. Happy cooking!

Passionate About Baking said...

Mice no steal cheese? Then who stole my cheese? Must be a monkey then! They're both "m"s anyway!
Happy baking! :)

Kitchen Corner said...

hahaha... you guys really funny :)