What a family they don't like pizza! Crispy, fragrant, with mouth-watering filling, covered with a thick layer of stretching melted cheese, it won the love of not only Italians, but also residents of other countries around the world.
Pizza is an excellent snack: it is delicious, satisfying and never bothers thanks to an infinite number of toppings. She is loved by children and adults, vegetarians and meat-eaters. In a word, this is a universal dish, and any good housewife at least once in her life has spoiled him with her family. However, there is no limit to perfection - pizza can be made even better!
Today we’ll talk about
how to make mini pizza. In this form, it will be convenient to put her husband to work and the child to school, take with him on a picnic, you do not have to cut it, because the pizza is obtained immediately in portions. So meet: mini pizza.
There are a lot of options for its preparation. Let's consider some of them.
On the loaf
For example, mini pizza on a loaf. Her recipe is simple to disgrace. You will need an ordinary sliced loaf, ketchup, mayonnaise, cheese and what is in the refrigerator for the filling. It can be pickles, smoked or boiled chicken, canned corn, sausages or sausages, olives or olives, sweet peppers, tomatoes, onions ... In general, almost anything. To start, the loaf should be cut into pieces. Grease each slice with ketchup. Then put the filling, chopped into a small cube, grease with mayonnaise and sprinkle with grated cheese. Place the blanks on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake in the oven until the cheese melts. It takes 15-20 minutes. Hot items can be sprinkled with herbs. So ready mini pizza on the loaf! The recipe will help you out more than once in the event of an outing to nature or a sudden arrival of guests. Moreover, such an appetizer is great for both tea and beer.
Another mini pizza
Very popular with housewives who value their time, and mini pizza from puff pastry. For it you need to take: a package of puff yeast dough, a couple of tomatoes, several smoked sausages, sausages or sausages, a piece of hard cheese, as well as mayonnaise, ketchup and dill. Dough should be thawed, then slightly rolled out and cut circles out of it. What size they will be, so will the future mini-pizza.
Next stage
The ingredients for the filling must be crushed, rub the cheese. Then you need to lightly grease the baking sheet with margarine or oil, put dough pieces on it. Grease each ketchup, then put the products in the following order: tomatoes, sausages, herbs and cheese. Pour all the mayonnaise. You need to bake pizza in the oven for half an hour.
Cooking Bella Italy mini pizza
But these were all, so to speak, hiking options. Now let's see how to make mini pizza not from the finished dough. We cook and knead it ourselves. The mini pizza on offer is called Bella Italy. For her you will need: 2 tbsp. flour, 1 tsp. with a hill of yeast, 2 g of salt and sugar, a glass of water, 5 tbsp. l sunflower or olive oil, a large tomato, half a sweet pepper, a small pack of crab sticks, a half can of olives or seedless olives, 150 g of mozzarella, as well as garlic, basil and oregano. You need to start cooking with the dough. Pour heated water into a bowl, add sugar, salt, and yeast.
Stir and leave alone for 10-15 minutes. Then sift the flour, pour 2 tbsp. l butter and knead the dough so that it does not stick to either the hands or the table. Then wrap it in a bag and put in the refrigerator for half an hour. Meanwhile, you should do the filling. Sweet pepper is cut into small squares, crab sticks and olives into rings, and cheese, of course, into small pieces. You will also need the sauce, because we have not just a mini-pizza, but a fashionable one with a Mediterranean accent!
Second cooking step
To pour garlic, chop finely, and turn the tomato into small cubes. Heat the pan with the remaining olive oil, fry the garlic in it for about a minute, but no more - otherwise it may burn. The resulting garlic oil is the basis for the sauce. Next, the fire should be reduced, add tomatoes to the oil, add salt, oregano and basil and simmer for 5-7 minutes, constantly stirring. Then the gravy needs to be cooled. It is time to take the dough - get it out of the refrigerator, knead again and roll it thinly. Then, with a cup, saucer or other round container, you need to cut out the basics for pizza. Of this amount of dough should come out 7-8 pieces. Next, each pizza must be carefully transferred to a baking sheet greased with margarine. Press the middle so that plump sides form on the edges.
Finishing touch
Pour two tablespoons of sauce into each pizza, smooth. Then put the sweet pepper, crab sticks and olives, on top - pieces of mozzarella.
Preheat the oven to standard temperature and bake pizza for about half an hour - until dry with a toothpick or match. Then cool slightly and treat yourself.
Vegetarian version
And finally, for vegetarians and those who hold the post, we will tell about lean mini pizza. For her, this is what is needed: 1-1.5 Art. flour, a third cup of slightly heated water, 1 tbsp. l sunflower oil, 1 full tsp yeast, salt and 0.5 tbsp. l liquid honey. You can also use your favorite seasonings - turmeric, a mixture of Provencal herbs, garlic powder and so on. So, pour water into a bowl, dilute honey in it and add yeast. Stir, add oil, add salt and spices, sift the flour and make the dough. It should be elastic and soft. Leave to rest for 5-10 minutes under a clean towel, then knead thoroughly again.
The Next Step in Making Vegetarian Mini Pizza
Divide the dough into equal slices - future mini-pizzas, and roll out each thinly. Lean filling options: fried or canned mushrooms, red onions, bell peppers, dried or fresh tomatoes, pickled cucumbers, seedless olives or olives, tofu, mussels, shrimps, squid, octopus, pineapples ... Lubricate the base with ketchup, put the filling, pour lean mayonnaise and bake in the oven until tender.
Little conclusion
In general, try, experiment, look for your own - after all, pizza gives a huge scope for imagination! Enjoy your meal!