Mmmm...Pizza!

Tonight we had delicious home made (that is from scratch) pizza! My wonderful husband spent parts of the day making the dough and then putting together a delicious feast. We had a Magherita and a Vegetable pizza.

It is a very simple recipe that we found in the Gourmet Traveller  "Italian Cookbook".

Pizza dough
2 tbsp olive oil
7 grams dried yeast
1 tsp caster sugar
450gm (3 cups) plain flour
350ml lukewarm water

1 Combine olive oil, yeast, sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 350ml lukewarm water in a bowl and set aside until foamy (2-3 minutes).
2 Gradually add flour to the wet ingredients (in a large bowl) until a rough dough forms, then turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic (6-8 minutes).
3 Place in a lightly oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap and set aside until doubled in size (1 - 1 1/2 hours).
4 Knock back dough, knead lightly, then cover and set aside until doubled in size (45 min - 1 hour).
5 Meanwhile, preheat over to 250 degrees celcius. Place two heavy-based oven trays in oven to heat.
6 Divide dough into quarters then form four 30cm diameter circles with the palm of your hand or a rolling pin and place each on a piece of baking paper. Spread pizza topping over bases, then bake in batches on heated trays, using baking paper.

To make a pizza that was friendly for our sensitive tummied master 1 we cooked and mashed pumpkin and scattered vegetables and ham over the top. The proof is in...well the pizza.