The pizzas bought from the shop are usually too flat. Those thin flat things with pepperoni sparsley spread on them is not a real pizza in my opinion. So here's a recipe for bigger ones I've made sometimes.
Ingredients:
Thick pizza base
Tomato paste, or, I use pasta sauce, e.g. garlic and red-wine.
1 onion, chopped.
1 egg, scrambled.
garlic, eg 1 clove crushed. Depends if you like vampires or not.
Jar of sun-dried tomatos.
Jar of olives, I prefer black, sliced.
Lots of mushrooms, sliced.
Can of chopped pineapple
1 capsicum (i.e. bell pepper)
Mozarella cheese, a whole lot, shredded.
Beef mince (ground beef), cooked.
Mixed herbs.
Order of construction:
Pre-made pizza base. I usually put it on a tray with aluminium foil underneath which has been coated lightly with olive oil. This gives the pizza base a nice golden crust underneath and helps stop the foil sticking.
Then spread tomato paste on the pizza base.
Crushed garlic goes next.
Then beef mince (ground beef) that you already cooked.
Then sprinkle mixed herbs over it.
Then onion.
Then scrambled egg.
Then a layer of cheese.
Then capsicum (bell pepper).
Then pineapple.
Then another layer of cheese.
Then alternate layers of mushrooms and sun-dried tomatos and olives and pineapple.
Then cover the whole thing with cheese.
That's how I do it, but it's open to experimentation obviously. I've done it with chicken and sweet chilli sauce as alternative to beef mince and tomato.
I make them up to 5.5 inches tall. It's the mushrooms that give it the height. Proper layering of ingredients and cheese will make sure it doesn't fall over.
Will take a while to cook in the oven I find at about 200 deg C (400 F), but you'd have to figure out the temperatures for yourself. Maybe 1 or 2 hours.
Pictures are attached to get the idea.
Ingredients:
Thick pizza base
Tomato paste, or, I use pasta sauce, e.g. garlic and red-wine.
1 onion, chopped.
1 egg, scrambled.
garlic, eg 1 clove crushed. Depends if you like vampires or not.
Jar of sun-dried tomatos.
Jar of olives, I prefer black, sliced.
Lots of mushrooms, sliced.
Can of chopped pineapple
1 capsicum (i.e. bell pepper)
Mozarella cheese, a whole lot, shredded.
Beef mince (ground beef), cooked.
Mixed herbs.
Order of construction:
Pre-made pizza base. I usually put it on a tray with aluminium foil underneath which has been coated lightly with olive oil. This gives the pizza base a nice golden crust underneath and helps stop the foil sticking.
Then spread tomato paste on the pizza base.
Crushed garlic goes next.
Then beef mince (ground beef) that you already cooked.
Then sprinkle mixed herbs over it.
Then onion.
Then scrambled egg.
Then a layer of cheese.
Then capsicum (bell pepper).
Then pineapple.
Then another layer of cheese.
Then alternate layers of mushrooms and sun-dried tomatos and olives and pineapple.
Then cover the whole thing with cheese.
That's how I do it, but it's open to experimentation obviously. I've done it with chicken and sweet chilli sauce as alternative to beef mince and tomato.
I make them up to 5.5 inches tall. It's the mushrooms that give it the height. Proper layering of ingredients and cheese will make sure it doesn't fall over.
Will take a while to cook in the oven I find at about 200 deg C (400 F), but you'd have to figure out the temperatures for yourself. Maybe 1 or 2 hours.
Pictures are attached to get the idea.
