Basel Dragons

Healthy Home made Pizza

Ingredients
For the dough
½ tbsp dried yeast
pinch salt
pinch caster sugar
200g/7oz wholemeal flour
drizzle olive oil, plus extra for greasing
150ml/5fl oz lukewarm water
For the tomato sauce
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp dried oregano
400g/14oz can chopped tomatoes
2 tbsp tomato purée
freshly ground black pepper

Method
1. To make the pizza dough, place the yeast, salt, sugar and flour in a large bowl and mix together well.
2. Mix the olive oil with the water in a jug, then gradually add to the dry ingredients, beating and mixing all the time to create a thick dough.
3. Knead it with floured hands, until the mixture is smooth and elastic. This will take about ten minutes.
4. Lightly grease a large bowl with olive oil and place the dough in the bowl. Cover with a tea towel and place somewhere warm (not hot) for about 30 minutes.
5. Knock back the risen dough, by gently punching it back into the bowl, and leave to prove for another 30 minutes.
6. For the tomato sauce, place all of the ingredients into a food processor and blend until smooth.
6. Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7.
7. Roll out the pizza dough onto a clean, floured surface to about ½cm/¼in thick.
8. Add the tomato sauce and spread out thinly and evenly across the dough.
9. Add your topping from the choices below then place into the oven and bake for 8-10 minutes, until golden brown.Mediterranean
4 slices parma ham
25g/1oz low-fat mozzarella cheese
50g/2oz sun-dried tomatoes
small handful fresh basil leaves
8 black olives
sprinkle parmesan cheese.
Seafood
handful prawns, cooked and peeled
½ can tuna, flaked
4 anchovy fillets
1 tsp capers
8 black olives
pinch dried chilli flakes
25g/1oz low-fat mozzarella cheese

Suggestions for pizza toppings50g/2oz spinach, steamed
pinch fresh grated nutmeg
1 tsp dried oregano
25g/1oz low-fat mozzarella cheese, broken up
sprinkle grated parmesan cheese
1 free-range egg, broken into the centre of the pizza
Hot and spicy
100g/3½oz chicken breast, cooked and thinly sliced
pinch cajun pepper
red onion, thinly sliced
2 jalapeno peppers, chopped
25g/1oz low-fat mozzarella cheese
1 tsp dried oregano
Vegetarian special
4 mushrooms, thinly sliced
½ green pepper, thinly sliced
½ red onion, thinly sliced
25g/1oz low-fat mozzarella cheese, broken up.

Florentina