Cooking With Your Toddler - Homemade Pizza

There are a few pizza recipes in the Linky and I've been meaning to make it for a while now but just never got round to it. As I've dragged the breadmaker out of the garage I decided to use it to make some pizza dough ready for pizza making once Jack was home from pre-school. I used to use this recipe a lot, every week in fact...until I got lazy!



You will need (makes 2 large pizzas)
1 1/4 cups water
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
4 cups strong white bread flour
 1.5 tsp salt
1/2 tsp granulated sugar
1 tsp dried yeast

• Pour the water & olive oil into the bradmaker pan
• sprinkle over the flour, covering all the liquid
• add the salt to one corner and the sugar to the other
• make a well in the centre and add the yeast
• turn the breadmaker to the 'dough' setting and turn on

Toppings - we used :
1 pot Tideford Organics Ragu a la Bolgnese (you can use tomato puree, a ready made pasta sauce or make your own)
Grated cheese (we used mature cheddar,you can use a mix of cheddar & mozzarella if you like)
sliced pepper
sliced onion
sliced mushrooms
sweetcorn
olives
sliced mini sausages
cooked chicken
ham
mixed herbs

or anything else you fancy

• Roll the base out either using a rolling pin or your hand on a very well floured surface - I have somewhere a nifty little pizza dough roller but it seems to have disappeared from my ridiculously full utensil drawer.

• Flour a baking sheet or pizza stone and lay the base on it.

• Spread the ragu over the base

• Cover evenly with cheese

• Add your toppings

• Sprinkle on some mixed herbs or Oregano

• Bake in a 200 degree oven for around 15-20 minutes until golden & sizzling.

Please come and look at other bloggers great recipes in the Linky below and feel free to add your own. The linky is ongoing.