Mini pizza

Summer holiday is over, so busy and tired. My monsters love pizza to the top, been making many times already but in the summer time we make the pizza with egg frying shapes mould. The monsters so enjoy it and they can spend at least one hour to roll, shapes and adding the topping. Good activities on summer holiday.

Adapted from: Sainsbury's food magazine

(minor changes from monsterandsharkkitchen)

(makes 2 pizzas or 12 mini pizzas)

1 teaspoon active dry yeast

1 teaspoon sugar

2 tablespoon olive oil, plus extra for greasing

1 teaspoon fine sea salt (I'm used normal table salt)

400 gm bread flour, plus extra for kneading

100 gm semolina flour

A carton of chopped tomatoes in tomato juice 

A pack of mozzarella, thinly sliced 

Some mild mature cheese, shredded 

Ingredients for topping: ham, onion, red pepper, sweetcorn, mushroom and etc.

Method: 

1. In a large bowl, combine the yeast and sugar with 330 ml warm water and stir to blend. Let the mixture stand for about 5 minutes until foamy. Stir  in the olive oil and salt. 
2. Add the flour, a little at a time, stirring until the dough forms a ball. Knead on a floured work surface until elastic. If necessary, add extra flour to stop the dough from sticking.(Note: I'm used bread maker to make the dough, added the wet ingredients followed by the dry ingredients).
3. Knead the dough into a ball shape. Place the dough in a large bowl, lightly greased with little olive oil. Cover and set aside to rise in a warm place until doubled in size (around 1-2 hours).
4. While the dough is rising, prepared the sauce by putting the tomatoes and juice into a pan and simmer until reduced to a thick sauce.
5. When dough doubled in size, punch the dough down and divide in two. If making two pizzas, put half of the dough aside and cover with damp tea towel while prepared the another half. If just use for one pizza, wrap the remaining half of the dough in clingfilm and chill in the fridge(the dough will keep for 2 to 3 days)
6. Preheat the oven to 220 C or 200 C (fan).
7. Stretch the dough or use a rolling pin to roll. If making mini pizzas, stamp with your shapes mould. 
8. Spread over the tomato sauce. Top with mozzarella slices.
9. Put on the topping ingredients and last top with shredded cheese
10. Bake for 10 minutes or until the crust is golden and the cheese has melted.