Homemade Pizzas

Hello there!

Weeknight dinners are something that most people dread. But I’m not sure why. The thing that I dread is finding myself in front of the telly from the time I get home to the time I go to bed. I love getting up and doing something, I think that it helps extend the day and helps lessen the slave feeling you get when all you do during the week is sleep and work.

So on Thursday night this week, I came home with a really defeated feeling. But half way home I starting thinking about what my plan was for dinner. I had bought a Good Food Ideas magazine recently and in true lazy fashion, only skimmed across the more interesting recipes and pictures. One of which was a caramelised onion tart with filo pastry and brilliantly glossy and caramelised onion. I skimmed across this recipe enough to work this much out, so naturally this great picture and idea has stayed in my head since.

So my ideas started humming and before I knew it, I had forgotten my terribly hectic day. The caramelised onion tart quickly graduated into a homemade pizza with some of the cheese I had bought at the market on Sunday and some chorizo and pancetta that I had in my fridge. Between leaving work and as I was finding myself in the supermarket,  I was having a internal battle for my dinner; whether to cook a great Indian curry (from a jar) or make homemade pizzas (by this stage I was realising that I had too many great ingredients to just make one flavour pizza).

So the idea was now to make a easy pizza base that I had heard about for ages and recently a friend had made it and gave the tick of approval; a base made from just yogurt and self-raising flour. So I grabbed some Greek yogurt and got slightly side tracked by the cast-iron frypans and griddle pans of which I bought one of each (and since buying have really praised myself for the clever purchases).

Pizza Base:

1 cup Greek Yogurt

1 cup Self-raising flour

1. Mix together into a ball

2. Knead for 4-5 min

3. Cut into 2 halves if you want 2 thin bases, or leave as one if you want a think base.

4. Roll out to desired thickness

Pizza 1:

Greek yogurt

Half an onion, sliced

Quarter of a cup of sliced leek

Quarter of a cup of capsicum, sliced or diced

Quarter of a cup of Goats cheese, torn up

Quarter of a cup of pancetta, diced

Half a very large mushroom, sliced thinly

                1. Warm a pan (I used my new cast iron one J)

2. Put some olive oil and throw in the sliced onion and leek and cook on low until soft and brown.

3. Put a layer of Greek yogurt on the rolled out pizza base

4. Put all the ingredients except the Goats Cheese on the pizza in any sort of way you like

5. Slide the pizza onto the pizza stone or tray that you had in the oven as it was warming up.

6. When the pizza is cooked and the toppings look crispy and yummy, bring it out and put the goats cheese on top. Slice it up and eat it!!

Pizza 2:

Greek Yogurt

Quarter of a cup of Chorizo, finely sliced

Quarter of a cup of capsicum, sliced or diced

Half a very large mushroom, finely sliced

Quarter of a tomato, diced

Quarter of a cup of cumin spiced cheese (or whatever else you want)

                Put together in the same way you did the first one! Eg, yogurt base, ingredients other than the cheese into the oven and put the cheese on as you pull it out of the oven.

The result of my scatter-brain, love of finding any reason to go the supermarket, and ideas stemming from a food magazine, was something I was pretty darn proud of!

XO

NJC