Tasty PIzza and Bread - from one batch!

Sorry for not having posted for so long.

Business has been busy and I've had a reasonably lengthy sickness, There's a nasty respiratory bug doing the rounds and I had the misfortune to catch it. I can only guess that I got it owing to advancing years and being in my office more often than not rather than around people.


Want a fast recipe for a pizza and a loaf of bread for the next morning? Here's how!


Make a standard bread dough (500 g cheap plain flour, 30 g gluten flour, 15 g sugar, 15 g salt (if you're sensitive to salt or prefer lower salt foods, use only 5 g - the high dose in this case is for flavour rather than as a preservative), two level tablespoons of yeast, two tablespoons of olive oil) but add two teaspoons of dried mixed Italian herbs (or similar) and three very finely minced or crushed cloves of garlic. Combine the dry ingredients and those listed above. Hydrate at around 60% (i.e. 300 mls) with 25 - 30C water. Knead manually or mechanically and move on...

After you've made the dough above, give it thirty minutes or so to rise. Pinch off one third and flatten and shape it onto a well oiled pizza tray.

Finely spread a tablespoon of herbed tomato paste and a tablespoon of bbq sauce (or HP sauce if you like). Top with cheese, salami, olives, anchovies and thinly sliced onion (white or red is best, but use what you have). Add whatever you like - it's pizza and there are no rules.

Preheat the oven to 220C fan forced, cook for eight minutes on the tray, pull it off the tray and give it eight minutes more just on the oven rack. Tasty, healthy pizza goodness. Enjoy!


And for the bread stage...

By now, your pizza is cooked and there's 2/3 of a bread batch of dough. Gently roll it into a shape you like, slash it with a pattern you like, throw it onto the oiled pizza tray and cook at 180C fan forced for eighteen minutes.


Result?


You get a lovely Mediterranean style pizza for dinner and now you have a small loaf of bread for breakfast, brunch or lunch. Sure, it will be strongly herb and garlic flavoured, and maybe a touch salty, but with some cheese and meat it will make an awesome and flavoursome meal for cheap.


Enjoy!