Muffin Pizza

My original plan was pizza for snacks but along the way it became muffins.
Glad I made muffins!

This is my go to pizza dough. I love it.

I used my home-made pizza sauce (recipe below) and as for the choice of toppings and measures I leave it to you.


                                      

400 bread flour
100g finely ground semolina
1/2 teaspoon salt
7 g dried yeast sachets
1 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
325 ml water

Homemade tomato sauce

Cheddar cheese - grated and slices 

Shredded cooked chicken meat or mince meat

Sauteed onion

Finely chopped bell peppers

Olive oil

In a jug, mix the yeast, sugar and oil into lukewarm water and leave for a few minutes, then pour into the well of flour, semolina and salt.

Using a fork, bring the flour in gradually from the sides and swirl it into the liquid. Keep mixing, drawing larger amounts of flour in, and when it all starts to come together, work the rest of the flour in with your clean, flour-dusted hands. Knead until you have a smooth, springy dough after about 15 minutes.

Place the ball of dough in a large flour-dusted bowl and flour the top of it. Cover the bowl with a damp cloth and place in a warm room for about an hour until the dough has doubled in size.

Now remove the dough to a flour-dusted surface and knead gently.

Divide the dough up into as many little balls as you want to make muffin size pizzas. Dust some semolina on the muffin tray. Rolls each ball round and let it sit in the muffin tray cavity.

Place about one teaspoon of sauce and gently rub all over. Next the onion, meat , bell peppers and  shredded cheese.

Add another tsp of sauce and cover the top with s small slice of cheese. Repeat for the rest.

Bake in a preheat oven at 200℃ for 20 min.

Some useful notes:

Timing-wise, it’s a good idea to roll the pizzas out about 15 to 20 minutes before you want to cook them. Don’t roll them out and leave them hanging around for a few hours, though – if you are working in advance like this it’s better to leave your dough, covered with clingfilm, in the fridge.

Or you can prepare the muffin pizza and cover them with clingfilm, and pop them into the fridge for later use.

                                           Enjoy ...jue

recipe from Jamie Oliver