General Pizza tips & Quick Questions

Clive_Woody

weegie wrote:

For my tomato sause on the pizza I just mix some tomato puree and bbq sauce together - yum. I was trying to get something similar to the BBQ sauce that the dominos pizza's come with.....:-)

Also - home made bases are so much nicer - have you tried Nick Nairn's easy peasy one?

Oh and like hazzie123 I'd also like to know if anyone has every attempted stuffed crust pizzas. My husband loves these and if I managed to make one of these from him I'm sure I'd score extra brownie points!

If you are making your own pizza bases I would have thought it would be quite straight forward to put a circle of cheese (probably mozarella) around the pizza base about 1 inch in from the edge then fold the edge over and pinch it in all around to seal the cheese into the crust.

Irisheyes648

For a quick sauce I normally mix some garlic powder with some tom puree and a little bit of water to loosen it up a bit and spread straight on the pizza base...yummy.

Rikki

I like to use the Tomato and Worcester sauce for the tomato base.

squeaky

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Clive_Woody

For those who make their own pizza bases, you could spice these up by adding crushed garlic, chilli flakes, dried herbs, tomato puree to the dough for a bit of a different style pizza base.

For kids you could add a bit of food dye (green, blue or whatever) to the pizza dough to make things even more exciting.

For something else a bit different you could try a Calzone (sp) style pizza where you fold the base in half sandwiching the filling in the middle of the pizza.

organic_wanabe

I do all sorts of things for my tomato base. Two of the easiest are: (i) heat some olive oil in a heavy pan (such as le crueset) until it is very hot then bung in a tin of tomatoes and quickly put the pan lid on and cook for a few minutes to caramelise. Mash and then spread on the base, not too much just to colour it. (ii) Use a potato masher to mash a tin of tomates and add a bit of oregano. Spoon the pulp over the pizza base to cover and use the leftovers (juice etc.) in spag bol.

belfastgirl23

Sauce: 500g tomato passata, 2tbsp oregano, tbsp olive oil, dsp salt. Cook until nice and thick. Can be frozen. I've used both hot and cold, doesn't seem to make a difference.

Most authentic tasting sauce I've had. And looks impressive for very little effort beyond an occasional stir.

Also just pizza base with pesto is nice

Enjoy

V.Lucky

I fry onions and garlic, add pasatta and basil and oregano. Always add black olives and sun dried tomatoes mmmm, and maybe mushrooms or quorn if I fancy or have it in.

ViksB

We freeze emergency pizza packs!!
They contain one roll of dough (which if unorganised can be defrosted in the microwave)
a small pot of tomato base
a bag of sliced goodies such as mushroom, pepperoni etc

Then all we need is cheese which we always have in and we can always have pizza with very little fuss.
In fact we are having one tonight!!

Viks

THIRZAH

I make a large batch of tomato sauce using garlic, onions, carrots, celery, tinned tomatoes , a couple of tablespoons of tomato puree, a bay leaf and a couple of teaspoons of sugar. Fry the garlic. onion, celery and carrots until soft, add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for about 3-45 minutes.Liquidise in a blender or food processor then freeze in individual portions.

I have a large Le Creuset pan ( wedding present) which holds enough tomato sauce to keep us going for at least a month- I usually use about six tins of tomatoes at a time.