Saturday, January 31, 2009

Pizza Pinwheels

My husband loves these. He prefers his pizzas this way rather than the traditional triangle slices. I made my own pizza dough following Ainsley Harriet's recipe from one of my recipe books. I love his pizza base. It's the softest, easiest, most wonderful pizza base to my humble taste =)

Here's the recipe.

Ingredients:

(A)
350g bread flour
7g instant yeast
1 tsp salt

(B)
2 tbsp olive oil
225ml warm water

(C)
2 tsp polenta (also known as cornmeal)

How to make:
Mix (A) in your food processor. Combine (B) and add into (A). Process til dough forms. Knead 10 mins. Prove for 1 hour.

Punch and cut dough in half. Flatten one of them into rectangular shape, spread dough with long-side towards you with your favourite pizza base sauce. Top with your favourite toppings. For this one I had put in according to whatever there is in my pantry. Olives, jalapenos, leftover minced meat, mushrooms, bbq sauce, mozarella cheese, mayonaise and chilli sauce. You may add anything you like, choices are endless. Main ingredient is pizza sauce and mozarella cheese. The simplest and delicious toppings I had was tomatoes and fresh basil ;-) ;-)

Roll up your rectangular shaped dough to a long log. Then carefully slice up the rolls into even sizes. Dust your pizza pan with the polenta (cornmeal) and spray with olive oil. Place your roll-ups onto the pan. Bake in a 200c preheated oven until golden and tops browned. YUM!

For my all-time-favourite homemade special pizza base sauce:
Olive oil
Chopped tomatoes
Tomato puree
Fresh thyme
Garlic - chopped
Salt and pepper
Let be thickened in a pot. Leave to cool and spread on your pizza dough

I don't quite remember when I made this but it has to be somewhere mid 08. When the weather's cold and too lazy to go out for a meal. Yeah, this pizza's the way to go for a quick, satisfying homemade meal =)

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