Onion and Green Pepper Pizza

Making a pizza for one person using yeasted dough is probably not worth the time and effort but this no-yeast version is very quick and easy. I first saw this method on a Jamie Oliver cooking programme and it works very well.

Ingredients

For 1	Continued...
Pizza Dough	Tomato Sauce (see note 1)
80 gm self raising flour (see note 1)	75 ml passata
2 tspn olive oil	1 tbspn tomato purée
¼ tspn salt	¼ tspn salt
100 ml water (not all will be used)	½ tspn dried basil
	½ tspn dried oregano
	½ tspn garlic powder
	Topping
	50 gm onion (prepared weight)
	50 gm green pepper
	50 gm mozzarella (or to taste)
	50 gm extra mature cheddar cheese (or to taste)

Preparation

Using a small bowl add the tomato purée, passata, salt, dried basil, dried oregano, garlic powder and mix well.
Finely chop the onion.
Chop the green pepper into approx 1 cm squares.
Grate the cheddar cheese.
Place a 10½ inch non-stick frying pan over a high flame before continuing with the dough...
Using a reasonably sized bowl add the flour, olive oil and salt and mix well.
Gradually add only as much of the water that is needed to bring the dough together - it can be a little sticky, but only a little.
Flour a surface and a rolling pin and roll out the dough so it is the same size as the base of the frying pan.
Add a little olive oil to the hot pan.
Roll the dough onto the rolling pin and add it to the hot pan.
Pour the tomato sauce onto the pizza base and using the back of a spoon, cover the dough, avoiding the outer rim.
Sprinkle on the chopped onion.
Sprinkle on the green pepper.
Tear the mozzarella into smallish pieces and place, evenly spaced, on top.
Scatter the extra mature cheddar cheese on top to taste.

Cooking

Check that the pizza base is toasted and crispy and then place under a hot grill for about 4 min by which time the top should be bubbling.

Serving

Cut the pizza into pieces using a pizza cutting wheel.

Notes

(1) 80 ml of flour will make a thin pizza base and therefore crispy - you can use more flour if you like your base thicker with a softer centre.

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