A great way of using up excess veggies. You can make the tomato sauce (and even the dough) in bulk and freeze for future meals.
Ingredients:
Pizza Dough
- 250g Wholegrain Bread Flour
- 250g Strong White Bread Flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon raw sugar
- 2 teaspoons dried yeast
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 350ml warm water
Tomato Sauce
- 2 x 400g (2 tins) chopped/ whole tomatoes
- 1 red onion – finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic – roughly chopped or pressed
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon raw sugar
- Handful of basil leaves
- Salt and black pepper for seasoning
Pizza topping (suggested, but try making up your own)
- Red onion – finely sliced
- Mushrooms – finely sliced
- Broccoli – chopped into small pieces
- Red pepper – thinly sliced
- Olives – chopped
- Feta cheese – 125g
Instructions:
Pizza base:
- Add the flour, yeast and sugar to a large bowl and mix together well
- Then add the olive oil, salt and water, and mix into a rough dough
- Flour your hands and place the dough onto a floured kitchen bench
- Knead for about 5 minutes until smooth (it will be very sticky initially)
- Place the dough into a clean bowl, and cover with a tea towel
- Place the bowl in a warm place and allow the dough to rise for at least 1 hour
- Once the dough has roughly doubled in size, poke it with your fingers until it collapses
- Take your collapsed dough and cut it up into 4-5 pieces which will be used as your pizza bases
Tomato sauce:
- Heat the olive oil in a saucepan, then add the onion and garlic and cook for 5 minutes over a low-medium heat
- Add tomatoes, sugar, salt and black pepper
- Simmer for 30 minutes until you have a thick sauce
- Tear up the basil, add to the sauce and cook for another couple of minutes
- The sauce can be used immediately, kept in the fridge for a couple of days, or stored frozen for up to 6 months
Making up the pizza:
- Preheat your oven to 240ºC and put in a large baking tray/ pizza tray to heat up
- Place one of your dough pieces onto a floured sheet of baking paper and roll it out very thinly with a rolling pin to create your pizza base
- Spread a few tablespoons of your tomato sauce over the base, not too thinly
- Now start adding your toppings – mushrooms, broccoli, red pepper, olives etc
- If adding onion or leek, add them last to ensure they are cooked properly
- Remove the baking tray from the oven and slide your pizza and baking sheet onto the hot baking tray, and return to the oven
- Cook for 7 minutes, remove, crumble over the feta cheese and return to the oven for another 3 minutes
- Remove/ slice/ serve