Pesto, goat's cheese and sunblushed tomato pizza

Pesto, goat's cheese and sunblushed tomato pizza

Home made pizza delights!

Preparation Time 00 minutes
Baking Time 15 minutes
Portions Makes 1 pizza
Skill Level Easy
Average Rating 4 stars
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Ingredients

350 grams Allinson Premium White Very Strong Bread Flour
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Billington's Golden Caster Sugar
1 tsp Allinsons Easy Bake Yeast
2 tbsp Olive Oil
200 ml Water Warm
5 tbsp Cornmeal
6 tbsp Basil Pesto
250 grams Goats Cheese Sliced
100 grams Sunblush Tomatoes In Olive Oil From The Deli Counter
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Method

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  1. Put the flour, salt, Golden Caster sugar and Allinson Easy Bake Yeast into a bowl. Pour over the olive oil and warm water.
  2. Mix together with your hands until the mixture combines to make a rough dough ball.
  3. Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and stretch and knead the dough for 10 minutes until smooth and elastic. method tip
  4. Sprinkle half of the cornmeal onto the surface, roll out to a 30cm (12inch round), sprinkling with a little more cornmeal as you go. Lift it onto a greased round baking tray.
  5. Spread the basil pesto onto the pizza dough, leaving 1cm (½ inch) rim. Arrange the goats cheese on top and scatter over the sunblush tomatoes. Drizzle over some of the olive oil from the sunblush tomatoes. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
  6. Cover loosely with cling film and leave in a warm place to rise for 15 minutes.
  7. Preheat the oven to 220°C/fan 200°C/gas 7 with another pizza tray or flat baking sheet. Uncover and bake the pizza for 15-20 minutes until the topping is pale golden and the base is crisp.
  8. BREADMAKER METHOD Put the dough ingredients into the bread maker bucket, following the order and method specified on the manual. Fit the bucket into the bread maker and set to the dough programme with the pizza setting, if available, if not then the dough setting. Press start. Shape and bake as above.
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Reviews

Read all reviews (1) | Average rating: 4 stars

"you need to use a good quality pesto. I used a supermarket own brand and all the olive oil in it floated on the top of the pizza while baking.next time will try a better make of pesto."

16-10-2009 | Author: castanha | 4 stars

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