Homemade pizza - cheap and tasty!

I often fall back on homemade pizza when planning meals for the week, as it is cheap, easy to make and everyone in this house loves it!

It's also a rare treat for coeliacs like me, as making gluten-free "dough" of any description is a tricky one.

Last night I made pizza for us for tea, along with "chips" made from fried leftover boiled potatoes from the night before.  Only my husband and I for tea last night - so the leftover pizza slices are in the fridge for us to take to work for lunch today.

Gluten-free "flour" mixes are great; but it's definitely a bit more tricky to master the technique, so here's my step-by-step guide to gluten-free pizza!  This is my adaptation of Glutafin's Bite Size Mini Pizzas recipe.

Ingredients

• 9oz gluten-free white mix
• 2 tsp yeast
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp milk powder
• 185ml hand hot water
• 1 tblsp oil

The base is made of a smooth batter, as per the picture above.  Not a dough as with traditional pizza!  So, mix all the dry ingredients together and add the water and oil, mixing with a fork until it is a smooth, runny consistency.  Then spread out on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment.

Add your tomato sauce.  Usually I make this with tinned tomatoes, herbs, garlic and seasoning.  But it could be leftover bolognese sauce, tomato ketchup, tomato puree - or a combination of any of the above!  What ever you have left over and tomato-ey!

Spread the tomato sauce gently over the base and leave to prove for 45 minutes.

Then, the base is pre-cooked in the oven for 10 minutes before adding toppings.  I use 200C in my fan-assisted oven - but you don't want the oven too hot, or the edges will burn!

Ten minutes later and you can add your topping to the part-cooked base.

We had mushrooms, sweetcorn and peppers with mozzerella cheese.  Another ten minutes or so in the oven until the cheese has melted.

In my enthusiasm to eat my dinner I nearly forgot to take a photograph of the finished product!

The "chips" on the side went down a treat too.

Not one of my healthiest creations - but we all need a treat now and again!  Surely the vegetables count towards your 5 a day...

Best Wishes
Frugal Wife