Pizza night

Today I made pizza and dough balls as a Saturday night treat. I used a simple pizza base recipe:

1kg strong white bread flour
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
14g dried yeast
1 tablespoon caster sugar
4 tablespoons of good quality olive oil
700ml water

I sieved the flour and salt together on to my kitchen surface and made a small well in the middle. I then mixed the yeast, olive oil and sugar together and gradually poured the mixture in to the well - using my hands to mix together and make a dough. After the dough had come together I placed it in a bowl with a damp cloth and let it rise for approximately 1 hour.

I used a rolling pin to make two pizza bases and used the left over dough to roll in to little balls. I put a small amount of olive oil on the dough balls and cooked for 8 minutes in the oven at 250°C. To make the garlic butter I cut up two cloves of garlic and heated up some unsalted butter and mixed the garlic in.

I used passata as the tomato base, mozzarella for the cheese and chorizo, salami, prosciutto, fresh chillies and red peppers to top it all off.