As promised, here's my first pizza combination! I love using thin slices of veggies, like onion and pepper, plus my favourite Kalamata olives, which act almost like a seasoning to the pizza. And remember, less is more, so don't overload it with the quantity!
Vegan, refined sugar free | Serves 1 | MAIN
Ingredients:
- 1 ball of pizza dough
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- Pinch dried oregano
- Pinch dried basil
- Plant-based cheese (I used a combination of Parveggio grated and grated vegan mozzarella from Good Vie)
- 1 (orange) bell pepper
- 1 onion
- 30g plant-based sausage (I used Tofiner by Taifun)
- 1 tablespoon sweetcorn (from a can)
- 5 Kalamata olives (see notes for olives)
- Semolina for spreading
Steps:
1.Preheat your oven. If you are using a house conventional oven, bring it to the highest temperature (250°C - see notes for baking tray). If you are using a Piana gas pizza oven by Ziipa, turn it on to reach 400°C (this takes approximately 30 minutes).
2.Remove your dough from the fridge while you prepare the ingredients.
3.In a small bowl, combine the tomato paste, olive oil, pinch of oregano, and basil with 2-3 tablespoons of water and set aside.
4.Cut the bell pepper and onion in thin slices.
5.Cut the sausage in 0.5cm slices.
6.Carefully place the dough on a clean surface that you have sprinkled some flour on and add some extra flour on top of the dough.
7.Gently press the dough from the centre outward with your fingers, rotating it as you go, until it forms a large disc.
8.Pick up the dough with your hands, make fists, and drape the dough over your knuckles. Gently and slowly pull your hands apart to stretch the dough. Rotate the dough over your hands and continue to stretch in this way a few more times until the dough has spread to about 10 to 12 inches in diameter.
9.Lay the dough back on the work surface, sprinkle a little flour or semolina on your pizza peel or a wooden chopping board, and lay the dough on it.
10.Before you start adding ingredients, shake the pizza peel/board back and forth to make sure that the pizza moves. Then top it with the tomato sauce, cheese, bell pepper and onion slices, sausage, corn, olives, and a sprinkle of oregano.
11.Carefully slide the prepared pizza from the peel or board onto the preheated oven baking tray or preheated pizza stone.
12.In a house oven, bake it for 5-6 minutes or until golden. If you are using a pizza oven, it can take from 2-4 minutes.
13.If using the Piana gas pizza oven, use the wheel to rotate it.
14.Once baked, remove from the oven, cut, and enjoy!
Enjoy!
Notes:
*When preheating the oven at home, add your oven baking tray in to heat as well but turned up-sight down.
*I like to use unpitted olives and remove them as I eat them, but feel free to use pitted ones or even pre-sliced that are also precut.