Gourmet Pizzas Made From Scratch in your Very Own Kitchen. ILoveyoupizza.

What could be more better than the smell of freshly baked pizza in your home. Why so delicious? From the finest ingredients to your very own home made beautifully rich marinara sauce Mmmm hmmm. Who needs a man when you got pizza init!

Fig, Turkey Rashers & Basil With 3 Cheese Pizza

The Sweetness of the figs goes extremely well with the saltiness of the turkey rashers, highly recommend this. For those of you who are not subjected to only halal meats, you can use prosciutto, pancetta or bacon. 

Ingredients for the marinara 

3 garlic cloves crushed 

2 tbsp oil from sun dried tomatoes 

3 tbsp sun dried tomato (blitz them in a hand blender)

1 can chopped tomatoes 

Handful fresh basil leaves 

2 tbsp salt
1 tbsp black pepper
1 tsp dried oregano  

1/2 cup Finley grated Parmesan cheese 

1 tbsp red chilly flakes
1 tbsp red chilly powder

1 small onions finely chopped  

Method for the marinara sauce
In a large saucepan, heat up 2 tbsp olive oil. Once heated add the chopped sundried tomatoes, crushed garlic, and 1 tbsp chilly powder. Braise the chopped onion with the garlic and other ingredients for about 5 minutes until translucent and softened. Add in the blitzed tomatoes and continue cooking on medium heat constantly stirring. Add in the salt, pepper, chopped fresh basil, oregano and chilly flakes and continue stirring. After another 5 minutes add in the Parmesan cheese and stir once more. Reduce the heat to the lowest and let the sauce simmer for up to 40 minutes stirring in between. The more you let the sauce cook down, the more flavor it will bring.
                                      

Ingredients for pizza dough
500g all purpose flour/ strong white bread flour
2 tbsp salt
7g fast action dried yeast (1 pack)
250ml luke warm water mixed with 4 tbsp olive oil

Method
In a large bowl combine the flour with salt and the yeast. If you're using an electric mixer, once the flour is combined, run the motor and gradually add the water mixed with oil, you may not need all of it. Change the attachment to the dough hook and kneed for about 6 minutes, the mixture should turn into a ball of dough and should be nice and soft, not sticky . Transfer dough to another large floured bowl and cover tightly with cling film, set aside in a warm place to rise for about 1 hour, until doubled in size. Once the dough is ready, turn out onto a floured surface and knock all the air out the dough by punching into it, this is the time to take out all the anger you may have left in, I certainly beat it up nicely.
Cut the dough into two equal portions and roll out 1/2 cm thick, poke some holes using a fork and set aside.

Ingredients for fig & rasher pizza topping
1 cup cheddar cheese
1 cup mozzarella cheese
1 cup parmesan cheese
3 figs cut into quarters
7 turkey rashers
Bunch of fresh basil

Now you get to the exciting part, putting those delicious ingredients together and making your very own gourmet pizza, Omy im getting hungry again, what can I say i like eating good food init.

Spread out equal parts of marinara onto both your pizza bases, on one your bases, add 1 cup cheddar cheese, 7 turkey rashers then 1/2 cup of the grated parmesen followed by the figs, mozzarella and the rest of the parmesan. Lastly top it of with fresh basil and black pepper which is optional. Set aside and lets create our next gourmet pizza.

This ones for those who love vegiterian pizzas and those who like it spicy. Veggie Volcano it is. Dare to try this One, my mouth was on fire, literally, I was Crying, but Omy can it get any tastier. 

Ingredients for veggie volcano

1 yellow bell pepper thinly sliced 

1 red bell pepper thinly sliced 

1/2 cup sweetcorn 

1 small onion thinly sliced 

1 scotch bonnet pepper thinly diced 

1 tsp red chilly flakes

1 cup cheddar

1 cup mozzarella

1 cup parmesan 

On your second pizza, once you've topped it of with marinara, add the cheddar cheese followed by the onions, yellow and red bell peppers and sweetcorn. Sprinkle over the red chilly flakes followed by the parmesan and then the mozzarella. Lastly sprinkle over the scotch bonnet pepper, be careful when using these, ideally wear a glove or just wash your hands thoroughly straight after having contact with them. 

Finally there done, how excited are you? I know I am! Turn the oven on 200c, let it heat up for a few minutes and bang the pizzas in the oven, they should take around 15 - 20 mins until lightly golden around the edges, make sure to switch the pizzas half way so they cook evenly.

There you go, freshly baked gourmet pizzas, how good does your kitchen smell? Deeeeeelicious!

Many more combos to come.

Bon Appetit!