Homemade Pizza
Make pizza for the family with a homemade base and tomato sauce. The recipe is perfect to get kids involved in cooking. Top with mozzarella and fresh basil
Method
Based on 4 servings, adjust as needed.
Step 1
Tip the flour into a bowl, then stir in the yeast and a good pinch of salt. Make a well in the centre and pour in 200ml warm water (if cooking for 4, scale up or down as needed. Make sure it’s not too hot) along with the drizzle of oil. Stir together with a wooden spoon until you have a soft, fairly wet dough.
Step 2
Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 mins until smooth. Cover with a tea towel and set aside for an hour or so or until the dough has puffed up and doubled in size. You can also leave the rough, unkneaded dough in the bowl, cover with a tea towel and leave in the fridge overnight and the dough will continue to prove on its own.
Step 3
Meanwhile, make the tomato sauce. Put a generous drizzle of oil in a small pan and fry the garlic briefly (don’t let it brown), then add the passata and simmer everything until the sauce thickens a little. Leave to cool.
Step 4
Once the dough has risen, knead it quickly in the bowl to knock it back, then tip out onto a lightly floured surface and cut into two balls (of making 2 pizzas). Roll out each ball into a large teardrop that is very thin and about 25cm across (teardrop shapes fit baking sheets more easily than rounds).
Step 5
Heat oven to 240C/220C fan/Gas 9 with a large baking sheet inside. Lift one of the bases onto another floured baking sheet. Smooth the sauce over the base with the back of a spoon, scatter over half the mozzarella, drizzle with olive oil and season. Put the pizza, still on its baking sheet, on top of the hot sheet in the oven and bake for 8-10 mins until crisp.
- Ingredients
- Based on 4 servings
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2 tsp Instant Yeast 1x Sainsbury's Fast Action Dried Yeast Sachets x8 56g -
2 Garlic Cloves, crushed 1x Sainsbury's Garlic -
400g Passata 1x Sainsbury's Passata 500g -
3 tbsp Olive Oil 1x Sainsbury's Olive Oil 500ml -
16 Mozzarella Pearls, halved or a ball, torn 2x Sainsbury's Mozzarella Cheese Pearls 125g -
600g Strong White Bread Flour, plus extra for dusting 1x Sainsbury's Strong White Unbleached Bread Flour 1.5kg -
small bunch Fresh Basil 1x Sainsbury's Fresh Packed Basil 30g -
Maldon Salt, to taste 1x Maldon Sea Salt Flakes 250g