Homemade Vegetarian Pizza Slices from Scratch

Kids and teens love pizzas.

It is one of the fastfood chain that had been mushrooming all over the world.

Initially, I thought that pizza is difficult to bake because I do not often shop for pizza base at the supermarket.

Finally, a good old friend of mine told me that baking pizza at home is possible with a good recipe that worked.

She gave me her Homemade Pizza Recipe and I made it well, unexpectedly.

Anyway, pizza is a simple and delicious snack meal that anyone can bake at home with assorted toppings such as olives, tuna from the can, button mushrooms, tomato puree from the can or pasta sauce with tomato flavor.

Not forgetting, you need to sprinkle lots of grated cheese all over the surface of the pizza toppings, garnish with green peppers or chopped pineapple cubes.

There are many types of ingredients you can toss into your homemade pizza.

Nowadays, there are local made pizza with local cuisine such as curried pizza, Tom Yum pizza and even seafood pizza.

The list is endless!

Fascinating, isn’t it?

I was glad to have tried my hands on baking my very own homemade pizza, the vegetarian pizza , just slices of mushrooms, black olives, chopped tomatoes and onions scattered on top and a wide spread of tomato pasta sauce all over!

I should had bought another block of Cheddar cheese.

One block of cheese, grated for the toppings just isn’t enough.

Next time, I am going to add in chopped fresh pineapples and apricots instead!

Pizza Slices Recipe

Ingredients:

3oz unsalted butter
12 oz wholemeal self raising flour
1/4 pint low fat milk
2 tbsp tomato puree or pasta sauce
1 medium onion-chopped
12 oz fresh chopped tomatoes
6 oz button mushrooms-sliced
2 tsp dried oregano
4 oz Cheddar cheese-grated
6 large olives-stoned and quartered
Salt and black pepper to taste

Method of making pizza:

Preheat oven to 200C
Use a little butter to grease the baking sheet on a bread baking tray
Reserve 2 tsp of butter, rub the remainder into the flour and salt until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Use your fingertips to rub the mixture.
Mix in sufficient milk to make a fairly soft dough and knead lightly until it form a smooth and soft pizza dough.
On a flat surface, sprinkle some flour , roll out the dough approximately the size of the prepared baking tin.
Lift the dough into the tin and brush the surface with tomato puree.
In a frying pan, heat up with a little butter.
Saute the onion until soften.
Add in the chopped tomatoes, cook until soften, approximately 10min.
Stir in mushrooms and cook for a few minutes.
Season with dried oregano, salt and pepper to taste.
Spread the tomato mixture over the pizza base.
Arrange the cheese and olives evenly over the pizza base.
Bake in oven for 30min, until golden brown and cheese bubbles.
Cool before slice the pizza into 8 slices.