Dish 33 - Nell's Pizza Special

Nell's Pizza Special

Makes Approximately 5-6 Individual Pizzas

Ingredients:
Pizza Crust:
1 pkt instant dry yeast (2 1/4 tsp or 1/4 ounce)
1 tsp sugar
1 cup warm water
3 cups sifted all purpose flour
(NB: ensure you don't use 3 cups flour, sifted (subtle, but important difference!) or else you get too much flour in the dough, which happened to me! I just kept adding a little water at a time until I got the consistency I wanted)
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 Tbsp oil or melted shortening
Pizza Toppings:
Leggos pizza sauce (flavoured tomato paste)
Bacon, finely chopped
Red & green capsicum, finely chopped
Canned pineapple
Red onion, finely chopped
Mozzarella cheese, grated
(NB: I have not specified quantities as this will depend on your own taste and preferences)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180oC
   
2. Add yeast to warm water and sugar and let stand for a few minutes. Stir.
3. Add about 1/2 the flour and beat until smooth.
4. Add shortening and salt with more flour and mix in with your hands until dough begins to clean sides of bowl.
5. Beat hard and turn out onto board.
6. Divide dough into number of pizzas required. Roll out to desired circumference/thickness (you may need to do this a number of times, depending on the elasticity of the dough).
7. Brush with olive oil. Place on oven trays and bake for 10 minutes then remove.
8. Increase oven temperature to 200oC
   
9. Spread pizza sauce on each base. Add each of the ingredients, amounts as desired and top with mozzarella.
10. Place in over and bake until cheese is golden brown. This could be between 10 and 20 minutes, depending on the size of the pizza and amount of topping.
    

Recipe Source: Pizza Crust - From my Grandma Ellie; Pizza Topping - My own design