Home-made pizza with smoked mozzarella, chorizo and fresh basil
Ingredients
1 home-made pizza base (see recipe below)
60 ml home-made tomato sauce (see recipe below)
80 g smoked mozzarella, in large slices
40 g chorizo, thinly sliced
10 g fresh basil, thinly sliced
salt to taste
Method
Preheat the oven and roasting tray to 200 °C.
Onto the hot roasting tray, place the rolled-out pizza base.
Using a spoon, spread the tomato sauce over the pizza base, right up to the edge.
Spread the smoked mozzarella evenly over the base.
Add the chorizo, evenly spread out.
Place the pizza into the preheated oven.
Bake until the cheese is melted and bubbly (the sides of the pizza must be browned).
Remove from the oven.
Sprinkle over the fresh basil.
Using a pizza cutter, cut the pizza into rustic slices.
Add salt to taste.
Serve hot and with a glass of 2019 Leopard’s Leap Chenin Blanc. Cheers!
Pizza bases
Yields 10 bases
Ingredients
1 kg fine bread flour
10 g instant yeast
20 g salt
750 g water
Method
Combine the bread flour, salt and instant yeast in a large mixing bowl.
Pour the water into a small pot over low heat and warm to between 30 and 32 °C.
Add the water to the dry ingredients and mix well.
Allow the dough to rest in a warm spot until it has doubled in size.
Once the dough has doubled in size, knock it back and portion into 150 g rolls.
Place the rolls onto a lightly floured surface.
Allow the dough to rest again.
Using a rolling pin, roll the dough out on a floured surface.
Roll each pizza base out into an oval shape that will fit onto an oven roasting tray.
Tomato sauce
Ingredients
800 g fresh tomatoes, skins removed
1 onion, finely chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 teaspoons fresh origanum, finely chopped
1 teaspoon salt
Method
Heat the olive oil blend in a saucepan over medium heat.
Saute onions until soft and lightly browned.
Add garlic and tomato paste and sauté for 5 minutes.
Cut the tomatoes into quarters, add to the saucepan and cover with lid.
Cook for 15 minutes while stirring regularly.
Remove from heat and add the chopped origanum and salt.
Using a stick blender, blend the sauce until completely smooth.
Allow to cool before use.