Pizza with home cooked tomato sauce

The big and small bosses both wanted pizza and hence, pizza we make. Hehehe...
Instead of the normal bread dough, I googled for some inspiration and ended up with this olive oil dough which is yummy, with some accidentally modification.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 1.3cups of lukewarm water
• 0.75 tablespoon of yeast
• 0.5 tablespoon of salt
• 0.5 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1/8 cup of extra virgin olive oil
• 4cups of self raising flour (this is the accident)
• 1/2 cup flour for kneading or shaping use

Method:

1. Premix all the ingredients in a bowl, except the flour.
2. Have the flour in the magimix and slowly add in those wet ingredients till they mix well. Let the mixture mix for about 5mins. 
3. Take it out and leave it in a container with cover to rest (not air tight) for roughly 2 hours.
4. Take it out, give it some "boxing" and kneading. Refrigerate overnight if possible, otherwise at least for 2-3hours. 
5. And it is ready to use. Take the amount required and flatten it. Give the bottom of the pan or paper or pizza stone a spray of olive oil before putting on the pizza dough. This will avoid sticking and gives the dough a soft fluffy taste.

For the topping, I have some home cooked tomato sauce and other toppings like mushroom, pepperoni, sliced chilli, fresh spinach leaves, surimi.

To prepare the tomato sauce (if you want enough for the above):

Ingredients:

• 8cloves of garlic, finely chopped
• 10 tomatoes (leave it in a pot of boiling water for about 3-5mins to help removed the skin), cut and chopped, keep about 1cup of the water
• 3 tablespoon of balsamic vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1/8 teaspoon of pepper
• 1 tablespoon of brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil
• 2 tablespoon of finely chopped bacon

Methods:

1. Saute the bacon and garlic with the olive oil till the bacon is crispy and brown (medium high fire).
2. Add in the chopped tomatoes and season with the rest of the ingredients. Add in the water from the tomato and simmer it for about 5-10mins.
3. If you like your sauce to have the tomato texture, use it directly. Otherwise, you can blend them till smooth before using it to smear all over the top of the pizza dough.

Fish Cake Pizza

Hubby had been asking me to make pizza for him for quite some time, but I was just lazy. Since its public holiday here in Miri for the past two days and I had gotten the ingredients, here we are, having fish cake pizza for super early dinner (5pm)...hehehe...

Gotten the recipe for the Dough from this Easy Pizza Dough Recipe website:

• 1 cup of warm water (105F)



• 3 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour



• 2 tablespoons of olive oil



• 2 teaspoons of honey



• 1 teaspoon of salt



• 1 teaspoon of yeast

Mix the water, yeast, honey and salt and leave it for 10mins. Later pour the mixture over the flour and olive oil and mix till you get a dough. Leave it to sit for 30mins, covered. Then punch off the air, knead and let it sit for another for another 30mins.

Divide the dough to two portion (made two pieces, and if u prefer thinner crust, can make up to three), and flatten it to the shape of the crust you like. If you prefer it thinner, just make sure u role it really thin (it will get a little big after baking). Use the fork to poke holes all over it.

Spread some tomato sauce + mayo over it. Start laying the other ingredients on it. I used dried chinese mushroom, fishcake, pineapple, onions, crabstick, and some sesame seed + mixed herbs. Bake at 200 degree Celsius for 20 mins, and take it out to add cheese (dont have mozzarrella, so uses cheddar instead). Bake for another 5mins.... Done, ready to serve.