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A doddle, and any flavour you want for pennies.

The dough - makes three or four bases.

350g plain flour
1 tsp dried yeast
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1Tbs oil
tepid water.

Bung the dry ingredients in a bowl and give good mix. While mixing, using a fork, pour in the water bit by bit till the dough forms a ball. Tip the ball onto a floured worktop and knead for only a few minutes. Wash out the bowl, oil it, then put the dough ball in and cover. Leave to double.

The sauce.... as the dough proves.

500 ml cheap passata
garlic
oregano & basil 2:1
oil

Heat some oil in a frying pan and as it heats up throw in some dried oregano, basil and a finely chopped or grated garlic clove. When hot pour in the passata and reduce till thickened. Season to taste.

Build your pizza - you need cheese.

Pre heat the oven to hot then make a base and cover it in sauce and then go for it, any topping you like covered in cheese.

Pizzas in minutes (7 mins in the oven same as a frozen job) for a quid each, fewer calories and no artificials. Most of the prep time is leaving the dough ball to prove, watch The Chase or Pointless.

You can freeze any left over sauce, same with the dough.

I'm definitely going to make these next weekend, thank you WM

Very nice they were too frank, definitely will be making them again

I’m making these this weekend, thanks Frank

I have been doing these for years and bought 10" (25cm) perforated trays to cook them on. I roll out the dough to a rough circle of about the right size then plonk it in the floured tray and pull it out to the sides. The plonking is easy. Once the dough is rolled out put your rolling pin about 1/3 from the top and pull the dough over. Pick it up on the pin and transfer to the tray.

I sometimes tweak the sauce with grated onion which fries with the garlic, oregano and basil, and I always use fresh mozzarella balls instead of the grated stuff. Rip it into bits and sprinkle them on.

A basic home made Margherita or spiced one is about 200-250cal per 100g so if you get two 12" family size out of this recipe (easy) they come in at under 500 cal and for less than £1 each.

I have just done some this afternoon and got three 10"ers - two pepperoni and one spicy mixed veg from stuff already in the fridge - so that's the weekend sorted.

No dough left over but I only used about 2/3 of the sauce so that is in a tub in the freezer.

A pepperoni ready to go....



...and ready to eat.



Not round as I was using the mini oven.

That looks delicious! I meant to take a photo of the ones we’ve just eaten but forgot
Thanks so much for the recipe and tips, Frank….don’t think I’ll be buying supermarket pizzas anymore.
The dough made four and I topped them with sauce, mozzarella and pepperoni

Four 9"ers sounds about right, Jo, and that sauce can be tweaked in ever so many ways.

Think how much they would have cost from the supermarket deli counter or Dominoes / Pizza Hut!

They are lovely, I put black olives, ham and mushrooms on mine as well as cheese etc