Homemade Pizza, gimme your best recipes...

[Squirdle]

DS's 2 and 3 are going to make homemade pizza for dinner tonight. DS2 has been fab at trying new food this week and I am going to take advantage of his enthusiasm and keep introducing new stuff. Hence the pizza. Thought he'd like to write a shopping list, get the ingredients and make dinner for us all. He is up for it

So best dough recipe? Don't want it too thick and heavy/doughy.

Bumping for you.

Oh I'd love to do this with my 3 so will watch with interest.

Hope you all have fun

I make a huge pizza (around 12-14 inches across) on my pizza stone. If you have a big baking tray use that otherwise you might want to halve the recipe and make something around 8-9 inches across. This is based on a delia recipe with a bit of tuning:

8oz white bread flour
1oz polenta
1 tsp salt
1tsp easy-blend yeast
1 tsp caster sugar
1 1/2 tbsps olive oil
6 fl oz hand-hot water

Warm your bowl slightly, then sieve in the dry ingredients. Add the oil and water and mix with a fork to make a dry-ish dough. Knead for 3 minutes (with a little flour if necessary) until the dough starts to "bubble" on the surface, then return to the bowl and cover with cling film and leave for 1 hour to double in size.

Preheat oven to 220 degrees and put your pizza stone/ baking tray in to heat up. Dust a work surface with polenta and reknead the dough briefly. Roll out to size - it should be quite thin if that helps!

Place on the preheated tray, top with tomato/cheese/etc and bake for 10-15 mins.

Hope it goes ok!

We use a sticky dough.... it gives a more Italian style rather than deep pan effect of a dry dough.

I don't have exact amounts...I just put flour (extra strong bread or "00") oil and yeast in a bowl and add water until it comes together. It will stick to your hands and bench while you knead it. Don't add more flour. Leave for an hour or so to rise, then pull into shape.

Tesco's herb and garlic passata makes a quick and easy sauce. Use mozzarella for pizzas (comes in a block) the balls in brine make the base soggy.

For toppings mushrooms, chorizio, roasted peppers, parma ham, anchovies....

I know what is for dinner tommorow Thanks!

Here is my pizza dough:

Five cups of white bread flour, one sachet of yeast, a little sugar and salt, one egg and a tablespoon of olive oil.

You can roll it out as thick or thin as you like and it doesn't go soggy.

Thanks everyone. Well we made them. We all made mini ones for ourselves so we could choose our own toppings. The boys loved making them but were reluctant to try them DS2 (the fussy one) did try his though and ate an ok amount