THIN CRUST PIZZAS

If you follow this blog you will know that I don't make the pizza base. The last time i made this I used a tortilla from Mission Foods for the base. However, the base was not really what i like, but being a lazy bum I bought the tortilla base from Giant. it's the house brand, and boy was I surprised at how good it was as a thin crust base! It was like the base of California Pizza Kitchen's thin crust pizzas! really nice and crispy!

This time I took the time to make a proper pizza tomato sauce, and made two different types of pizza. One was a 3 cheese smoked salmon and the other was a minced beef and pepperoni. the ingredients are as follows.

Ingredients
A can of skinless tomatoes, finely chopped
One whole garlic, finely chopped
One whole big onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoons dried Italian herbs
Mozzarella cheese, grated
Parmesan cheese, grated
Cheddar cheese, grated
150g minced beef
Sliced pepperoni
sliced smoked salmon



Method

To get a nice and crispy crust, you need to toast the tortilla in a hot pan or oven. These tortillas tend to puff up when hot, so you must be around to squeeze them flat or put something heavy on the top to prevent them from swelling up. What you want at the end of it is a nice, slightly crispy base. Do not over do this as the tortilla will have a chance to be fully crispy when you put the assembled pizza in the oven.

As for the sauce, in a hot pan, drizzle some olive oil and cook the onions, garlic and herbs till fragrant. Add the tomatoes and cook for a further minute to let the flavours infuse with the tomatoes.

For the smoked salmon pizza.....

On the crust, spread the sauce and sprinkle some of the cheeses on top.
put as much smoked salmon as you like, add some more cheese and Italian herbs on top. The pizza is now ready for the oven.

For the pepperoni pizza

Heat the sauce in a pan till it's boiling.
Add the minced beef, stir for 10 seconds and turn off the heat. Minced beef cooks really fast, and nobody will like the taste and texture of overcooked minced beef.
now spread that beefy sauce on the crust, sprinkle some of the cheeses on it, put as much pepperoni as it takes to cover the pizza and sprinkle more cheese and some italian herbs on top. now this pizza is ready for the oven.

Put the two pizzas into the oven, heat it up until the cheese melts and your pizza is ready!

This is a little more time consuming than my pizzas in a flash, but the effort is well worth it! Enjoy!