I’ve been making homemade pizza for about 6 years now – always using the same method which relies on dried yeast and means a wait of about 45 minutes for the dough to rise (not that long, I know!). Recently I saw a recipe for quick and easy pizza on the Kitchen Goddess (in training) blog and decided to try it out.
Here’s what I used –
- 250g self raising flour
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 75ml tepid water
Below is the self – raising flour with a splash of olive oil
Next, I added the water and made it into a dough – whenever you make pizza dough (or any kind of dough) its kind of a unique experience each time – things like the temperature and humidity affect how much water/flour your recipe needs. I started out using 200g of flour but found I needed more so added more.
Once the dough has come together, knead it for a couple of minutes until its soft and springy and then get to work rolling it out.
No need to wait for the dough to rise – how strange!
Once its rolled out, you then seal the top and bottom of the pizza in a large frying pan in order to make sure you don’t get soggy pizza.
Soggy pizza bottom is the worst fate known to woman.
This is how it looks when its been sealed on either side – I then put onto a baking tray and added tomato sauce and toppings.
I baked for about 20 minutes – unfortunately I didn’t remember to take a picture of the finished pizza as I was too busy eating it! Here’s how it looked before it went into the oven –
Overall, I enjoyed my pizza and it was great that it took 30 minutes to make rather than a total of about 1 hour 20 minutes if you make the yeasted dough version.
I would call this a ‘flatbread pizza’ though – it definitely doesn’t have the same texture of yeasted pizza but it is super quick!
I’ll have to give this a try…I’m quite the pizza fanatic and always looking for quick, easy ways to make a good one.
Cool! Its certainly quick but doesn’t deliver the flavour/texture of a yeasted pizza. I think the next thing for me to investigate will be making yeasted pizza’s prep quicker/easier – such as maybe freezing shaped dough so that you can pull it out and bake it with little notice.
YUMMY!! Homemade Pizza is the BEST! Especially when you make the crust yourself and not just use a store-bought one. YUM!
So by ‘sealing’ you are just warming the dough a little on each side to dry it out?
You don’t go as far as browning it, do you?
Sorry, I’m not familiar with the term.
Hey! Its a term I completely made up but yeah, its just cooking it a little on the crust so that you don’t get any soggyness which can sometimes happen in the centre of the pizza. I like a crunchy crust and bottom but fluffy doughiness inside so I’m quite demanding!
My home made pizza’s consist of naan bread from a packet and various Pizza toppings! Even quicker and even Nigella makes them 🙂
Ah yes I’ve seen that Nigella ‘recipe’ lol! That is truly a quick pizza!