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109 - Happiness Is... |
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Pizza Recipes |
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Nik regards pizza as the ultimate, cross generational comfort food.
Savoir Faire looks far beyond the basic to a wide range of toppings.
Set your culinary sights on your favourite ingredients and get creative
with your own combinations - anything goes! |
Sicilian Sunburst
Ingredients
- fresh pizza dough - available from bakeries and grocers
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- several sun dried tomatoes stored in oil, thinly sliced 'julienne'
style
- extra virgin green olive oil
- sliced pitted olives
- thin slices prosciutto, shredded
- 1 cup or less grated mozzarella cheese
Method
Allow pizza dough to sit in its plastic bag at room temperature
for a few hours. Pre heat oven to 400 degrees before rolling out
the dough on a floured work surface with a floured rolling pin to
desired thickness. Place rolled dough on a flat baking pan or pizza
pan and spread tomato sauce, top with attractively arranged toppings
in the quantities you enjoy and lightly sprinkle with a moderate
amount of cheese.
Bake for 10 - 15 minutes or until cheese bubbles and crust appears
slightly risen and golden.
Garden Delight Vegetarian
Pizza
Ingredients
- fresh pizza dough
- pesto sauce
- vine ripened tomatoes
- roasted red peppers
- rapini
- mozzarella cheese
- pitted, large, black Kalamata olives
- freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Method
Allow pizza dough to sit in its plastic bag at room temperature
for a few hours. Pre heat oven to 400 degrees before rolling out
the dough on a floured work surface with a floured rolling pin to
desired thickness. Place rolled dough on a flat baking pan or pizza
pan and spread tomato sauce and then pesto, top with attractively
arranged toppings in the quantities you enjoy and lightly sprinkle
with a moderate amount of cheese. Bake for 10 -15 minutes or until
cheese bubbles and crust appears slightly risen and golden.
Picasso's Blue Period
Pizza
Ingredients
- fresh pizza dough
- pesto
- chicken breast, sauteed in butter, cooled and sliced in thin
strips
- 1 bulb of roasted garlic - brushed with extra virgin olive
oil, roasted whole at 350 degrees for 30 - 45 min.
- fresh whole blueberries
- thickly grated Swiss cheese
Method
Allow pizza dough to sit in its plastic bag at room temperature
for a few hours. Pre heat oven to 400 degrees before rolling out
the dough on a floured work surface with a floured rolling pin to
desired thickness. Place rolled dough on a flat baking pan or pizza
pan and spread pesto, top with attractively arranged toppings in
the quantities you enjoy and lightly sprinkle with a moderate amount
of cheese.
Bake for 10 -15 minutes or until cheese bubbles and crust appears
slightly risen and golden. |
