First Impressions Count

And I have impressed myself no-end I'll have you know. 

This weekend hubby and I set out to try and copy my sister-in-law and my brother's fantastic recipe for homemade pizza on the weber. The results have me still wagging my tail four days later.

Perfect Pizza Topping: Basic tomato mozzarella base with 

Spanish chorizo, fresh rocket, avo, a parmesan-like cheese and pepper...yum.

QUICK PIZZA DOUGH

Makes about 5 large pizza’s

Ingredients:

1 x 10g instant dry yeast sachet

10ml salt

45ml olive oil

45ml honey or sugar

350ml lukewarm water

500g (890ml) cake flour

Method:

1. Mix yeast, salt, oil and honey or sugar together.

2. Slowly add flour and mix with a wooden spoon until a kneading dough is formed.

3. Knead for 10min on a flour-covered surface.

4. Let the dough rise for about 30min (in a warm spot)

5. Knead and roll into a circular base.

Alternatively

Do it my way – throw everything together in a mixer and continue from step 4.

Tomato base:

2 x 250g tins of plumb tomatoes

absolutely masses of garlic (and I do mean at least 5-6 cloves)

salt & pepper

Throw into a blender until smooth

Get your weber fired-up. Hint: your coals should be spread evenly.

We made these on the weber with a pizza pan from Woolies. For toppings start with your basic ‘Margerita’ add anything you can ‘cook’ to that and your fresh ingredients afterwards. I used the fabulous Col’Cacchio’s menu for inspiration.

Not bad for a first try...