Saturday, July 27, 2013

Delicious Homemade Pizza for 2

This is a very simple recipes yet delicious. Pizza is a comfort food. To me, it is just like an open toast sandwich. If you fold the pizza half & seal it, it became a Calzone. It just like a big curry puff. The only different is the fillings inside.

Pizza topping is very personal. Just be creative with the topping ingrediants, I even put tomato sauce on top with sambal ikan bilis sauces, red onion & some prawns. Sound very South East Asia right? 

My toppings: bacon, sausages, red/yellow bell pepper & onion. Use any store bought pizza sauces for convenient. Usually I will buy big tall bottle of tomato pizza sauces, use 2/3 for pasta & 1/3 for pizza. It keeps well in the fridge for a few days. Read the label.


Another tip- use high quality mozzarella cheese.


This is a perfect recipes for Pizza for 2 adults. It can be made into 1 big pizza or two medium thin pizza.

200g Hi Protein Bread flour
1tsp Dry yeast
2tsp Sugar
2/3 tsp Salt
140cc warm regular tap water

Method:
1) Mix yeast with water, add into the flour + sugar + salt (mix all dry ingredients 1st).
2) Knead the dough with bread machine or by hand.
- Machine  (need to work the dough for about 8 mins)
- By hand (need to work the dough for 15 mins)
3) Make the dough into a round shape. Let it rise in an air tight container or any bowl cover with a wet towel/ wrap. keep it in a warm place. It will rise to almost double the size in 30-40 mins.
4) Then, punch the dough down, you can divide into two single pizza & use a rolling pin to flatten the dough. Remember to flour the table top. Make sure the flatten dough do not stick on the table surface. Use a fork to make some hold on the flatten dough. It is best roll in on a marble table if possible. Oh yes, the reason I buy the classic marble table which is so 80s....
5) Spread the tomato sauces, then sprinkles any of the ingrediats of your choice, lastly top it with the mozeralla cheese. Let it rest for 10 mins.
6) Remember to pre-head the oven at 220'C & bake the pizza for 10-12 mins.


As usual, I never taken a baked pizza picture, this is because when the pizza is ready, we dig in too fast.