Making your own pizza base is usually quite a challenge – especially if you’re not too keen on all the hard work
I got this recipe from my mother in law, and modified it a bit upon a colleague’s advice…. Preparation should take you about 10minutes, and baking should take at longest 20 minutes.
2 cups flour
1 cup semolina
6 table spoons oil
3 table spoon sugar
3 tea spoon salt
1.25 cup milk & water mix – but check consistency to be the same as that of play dough (always a bit more milk than water)
Pre-heat oven to 160 degrees Celsius
Knead until all flour has been mixed with other ingredients, then flatten in a greased and / or floured baking tray.
You can spread the dough out with your fingers to give it a homemade look, or use a rolling pin to flatten smoothly.
If you wish to make rounded pizza, you can cut out pieces of dough by place a dinner plate on top of the dough as a guide, and then cutting with a sharp knife along the edge.
Place the dough, in which ever shape you prefer in the oven, and bake for 15 – 20 depending on the thickness of your pizza
Place a small piece of dough with the same thickness alongside your pizza base while baking, and use this to check if the pizza base is cooked through after 15 minutes
While your pizza base is baking, you can prepare the toppings for your pizza.
Once the pizza base is cooked through, add the toppings you desire, and bake until the cheese has melted
Note: All meats should be cooked prior to making to avoid the pizza from drying out
Note 2: Flour used for pizza base should not be self rising – though it might not do any harm I haven’t used self rising flour on this recipe, and cannot guarantee the success thereof. Normal or all purpose flour should work perfectly.
You can also convert this into a pita / Naan bread by not adding toppings.
Its quite tasty if you add butter & garlic or mixed herbs right after being taken out of the oven, then returning to the oven for a quick 2 minute grill.
Tip – if you would like the base to be a bit crispier, increase the oven temperature slightly (180 at most), and decrease baking time.
Photos to follow soon!!
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Awesome! That’s my dinner for tonight sorted, cheers!
I use pita bread as base
Strange how we have changed the original Pizza ingredients to wild and wonderful custom ones. I like making home made mini Pizzas and they seem to go down well.