Nell's Pizza Special
Makes Approximately 5-6 Individual Pizzas
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:
- Preheat oven to 180oC
- Add yeast to warm water and sugar and let stand for a few minutes. Stir.
- Add about 1/2 the flour and beat until smooth.
- Add shortening and salt with more flour and mix in with your hands until dough begins to clean sides of bowl.
- Beat hard and turn out onto board.
- 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).
- Brush with olive oil. Place on oven trays and bake for 10 minutes then remove.
- Increase oven temperature to 200oC
- Spread pizza sauce on each base. Add each of the ingredients, amounts as desired and top with mozzarella.
- 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.
