Fresh made pizza - good for you?

Pizzas are not nutritious, form Dominos, Teso or homemade. The dough is usually always made from refined flour so contains negligible nutrition. It lacks minerals and importantly Thiamin.

Damn tasty, though.
 
Make them yourself, from scratch, and they are much better, and much nicer :)

Bread machine for dough (or by hand, not much harder), swap any butter they use in recipe for olive oil. Any extra dough can be frozen.

Make big batch of tom base. Purée is rank on pizzas. Good quality tinned toms, lots of onion, garlic and handfuls of fresh herbs. One small chilli to finish it off. Again, freeze any left over for next time.

Thin base, and be sparing with tom base and cheese. Pizzas really don't need the quantity of cheese and tom that we seem to pile on them in the UK, less is certainly more.

Add topping of your choice. All this = win. and much healthier than shop bought :)
 
Pizzas are not nutritious, form Dominos, Teso or homemade. The dough is usually always made from refined flour so contains negligible nutrition. It lacks minerals and importantly Thiamin.

Damn tasty, though.

Agree, really tasty... Pizza assigned to 'treat status' have one every two weeks.. :p

but only from supermarkets or I might look into making my own.... That could be something fun, as we're trying to make all this healthy stuff into fun... Takes the chore out of it all, as being healthy is boring..!! lol

Like dog walking, we make it fun by chatting and throwing balls etc.... Wii fit is also made fun as we challange each other, so pizza making could be something we could do as a fun way to enjoy a treat every now and then. i'll have to suggest this, thanks all....
 
How are you making pizza so cheaply? The frozen bases cost like £1.20 for 2, add the grated mozzarella, pepperoni, onion, herbs and tomato's and it's more like £5 a pizza :confused:
 
Pizzas are not nutritious, form Dominos, Teso or homemade. The dough is usually always made from refined flour so contains negligible nutrition. It lacks minerals and importantly Thiamin.

Damn tasty, though.

correct re the dough, but if you are making your own you can put what every you want on top, including 5 of your 5 a day if you wish

With a thin base you are not actually evening using that much flour. 275g of flour, 4 tbsp of olive oil and some water and yeast will do for 4 people or 2 very hungry people
 
I'm quite tempted to make my own pizza from scratch now, can anyone suggest any good toppings? Plain cheese and tomato is a bit boring...
 
I'm quite tempted to make my own pizza from scratch now, can anyone suggest any good toppings? Plain cheese and tomato is a bit boring...

anything you like............basil, fresh tomatoes, chorizo or pepperoni, ham, rocket, egg, olives, anchovies, chicken, you get the picture, use your imagination!

skidder said:
& from another thread here my (or rather locatelli's) dough recipe:

If using oven you need something to put the pizza on, may be an upturned baking tray (or again better still a stone.)

This makes 2 good size pizzas.

375 g strong while flour, add 4 tablespoons of good olive oil, 200g of water, 10 g of yeast

If using dried yeast use slightly less and use 200g of warm water instead (and a tsp of sugar)

Mix all that together, either ten minutes by hand or a few mins in mixer with a dough hook. Add pinch of salt just before you finish mixing.

Take the dough ball put it on the worktop, dimple with your fingers to flatten it a bit, fold it in two and leave it 20 mins

After 20 mins cut the dough in to two for big pizzas or several for little ones, roll very thin with a rolling pin (this works fine and trying to spin it results in a doughy mess from experience!) thin as you can

put the pizza bases in the fridge for a few hours

get the oven on or bbq with the stone/upturned tray a good hour before you need it to get really hot.

top with whatever you like

bung it on the hot thing and cook for 10 mins

and enjoy
 
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If you made it yourself then it wouldn't be to bad. pizza bases are meant to be thin, you can use a lot less cheese(or low far cheese) and a lot less toppings. You could also use wholemeal flour if you wanted.

Ancovies and black olives f t w
chorizo, red pepper and a chilli tomato sauce.
plum sauce, duck and spring onion
white sauce, chicken, onion and sweetcorn
a simple cheese and tomato, but done well.
egg and rocket/spinach.
 
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I'm quite tempted to make my own pizza from scratch now, can anyone suggest any good toppings? Plain cheese and tomato is a bit boring...

A List of Viable toppings choose what you wish:
Chorizo
Pepperoni
Bacon
Wild Mushrooms
Sweetcorn
Capers
Anchovies
Mozzarella
Parmigiano
Ham
Egg
Green, Red, Yellow, or Jalapino Peppers
Spinach
Onions
Oregano
Tabasco Sauce (add a little to the base sauce)

Trust me on these I'm a 1/4 Italian
 
Coke is an absolute nightmare - a can of the stuff contains something like 40% of your daily sugar allowance.

I was always a big coke fan - until I saw just what a couple of cans could do to you.
I went to Coke Zero - absolutely love the stuff.
Great tasting and just nothing with regards sugars or calories.
You can drink as much as you like of that stuff.
 
Takes an awfully long time to make a pizza properly, not to mention all that gas/electricity, most people can't be bothered and end up buying one from supermarket :p
 
Good thing about MK, lots of lakes to walk around and excellent way to get out and exercise...

..but where do you swim in MK as there is no-where apart from Bletchely which is like kid soup most of the time?

MK really needs a pool.
 
Takes an awfully long time to make a pizza properly, not to mention all that gas/electricity, most people can't be bothered and end up buying one from supermarket :p

It takes about 5 mins to top and 5-10 mins in a preheated oven to cook. However If you have a Clay or Stonebake oven already lit then 90 seconds to make the perfect italian pizza
 
..but where do you swim in MK as there is no-where apart from Bletchely which is like kid soup most of the time?

MK really needs a pool.


Tell me about it... We go late in the eve, when it starts to empty out. The kids are are a nightmare. They do nothing but mess about, so Mon Adult swim 8.30pm and Fri at around 8.00pm you can get half hour of doing continous laps, weekend is a nightmare and we don't bother.

they really do need to get that new pool finished off in Bletchely..
 
kettle bbq with a pizza stone is the next best thing at home, prob 7 mins but yummy!

Oh well, can't force people not to eat tasteless crap!

Heuston blumenthal. Heavy cast frying pan on stove for 10 mins. Grill preheated to max setting. stick pizza on pan, place under grill 3 minutes done.

But my grills broke :(
 
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