Pepperoni Pizza

Making a pizza for one person using yeasted dough is probably not worth the time and effort but this no-yeast version is very quick and easy. I first saw this method on a Jamie Oliver cooking programme and it works very well.

Ingredients

For 1	Continued...
Pizza Dough	Tomato Sauce (see note 1)
100 gm self raising flour	1 tbspn tomato purée
2 tspn olive oil	75 ml passata
¼ tspn salt	Topping
100 ml water	50 gm onion (prepared weight)
	5 gm garlic
	about 25 gm pepperoni (or to taste)
	about 55 gm mozzarella
	as required parmesan (optional)

Preparation

Using a small bowl add the tomato purée, passata, mix well and season to taste(see note 1).
Chop the onion.
Thinly slice the garlic.
Slice the pepperoni.
Place a 10½ inch non-stick frying pan over a high flame before continuing with the dough...
Using a reasonably sized bowl add the flour, olive oil and salt and mix well.
Gradually add only as much of the water that is needed to bring the dough together - it can be a little sticky, but only a little.
Flour a surface and a rolling pin and roll out the dough so it is the same size as the base of the frying pan.
Add a little olive oil to the hot pan.
Roll the dough onto the rolling pin and add it to the hot pan.
Pour the tomato sauce onto the pizza base and using the back of a spoon, cover the dough, avoiding the outer rim.
Sprinkle on the chopped onion.
Sprinkle on the sliced garlic.
Scatter the pepperoni on top.
Tear the mozzarella into smallish pieces and place, evenly spaced, on top.
Optionally grate some parmesan on top.

Cooking

Check that the pizza base is toasted and crispy and then place under a hot grill for about 4 min by which time the top should be bubbling.

Serving

Optionally add a little chopped parsley or basil as a garnish.
Cut the pizza into pieces using a pizza cutting wheel.

Notes

(1) You can also add some dried basil and oregano to the sauce if you so desire.

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