Saturday 31 December 2011

Baking- Margherita pizza

Ingredients-

100ml diced tomato
2 small onions sliced
10 basil leaves
3 cloves of garlic
1/2 teaspn caster sugar (sauce)
1/2 teaspn hot sauce
1 1/2 teaspn dried yeast
1 1/2 teaspn caster sugar (dough)
1/3 cup warm water
1 cup flour (dough)
1 TBLspn olive oil
1/3 cup flour (kneading)
Salt and pepper
Olive oil spray
1/3 cup grated mozzarella
1. Preheat the oven to 170'c
2. In a oven proof dish put the tomato, garlic, onion, sugar, basil, hot sauce, 1/3 tea salt and pepper
3.Cover and put in oven for 40 min

4. Mix the sugar, yeast and warm water together and sit to the side
*NOTE DO NOT USE HOT WATER this will kill the yeast
5.Put the flour, olive oil, 1/2 teaspn of salt and pepper in a mixing bowl
6. Mix the flour and yeast mix together for 2 min, the dough ball will be sticky when you are done
7. Cover with a wet towel and set aside for 10 min
8. Flour down your bench and put your dough ball on the floured surface
9. Knead for 2 min, then rest for5 min
10. Roll out with a floured rolling pin
11. Spray you oven tray with oil
12. Lay your dough on the tray
13. Remove the tomato mix from the oven and turn the oven to 200'c
14. Blend the tomato mix
*NOTE IF YOU ARE USING A DRINK BLENDER LIKE I DID HOLD THE LID DOWN AND PULSE otherwise you will be cleaning up the sauce from all over your kitchen :)
15. Spoon the mix onto your pizza
16. Cover with cheese
17. Bake for 16 min
18. Rest for 10 min cut then enjoy :)

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