Pizza - Craig Cooks

Vegetarian Pizzas

January 15, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

I’m going to catch up on some things I should have posted while ago, and hopefully get back on track posting more often.

This pizza has
tomato paste
mozzarella,
roasted cherry tomatoes
mushrooms
feta

After it was cooked I added
charred leeks
shredded red witlof
haloumi

It was excellent.

The other one, not photographed had
garlic oil
mozzarella
zucchini
baked carrot
deep-fried cauliflower crumbs
harissa spice mix
diced chilli
feta
dollops of yoghurt
(add chicken if you want non-vegetarian)

Also worked very well.

Five Cheese Prawn and Pesto Pizza

October 29, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

We went to the Adelaide Cheese Festival on the weekend and came home with a swag of cheeses. Since we ALREADY had cheese in the fridge, the challenge is to eat it all. So this is a variation on a quattro formagio. Home-made pesto on the base. Then gouda, blue vein, ricotta, and goats cheese, garlic prawns, baked cherry tomatoes, grana padano and baby basil leaves. It was let down a bit by the quality of the prawns but otherwise rich and tasty!

Sardine, Caper and Radicchio Pizza

May 26, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Pizza night is something of a religious ritual in our house. It happens about once a fortnight on a Saturday or Sunday evening. We almost always make 4 pizzas, since whatever isn’t eaten on the night gets eaten after the next day or two. I can happily spend the better part of a day preparing the toppings.

Last night I made up a couple of new concoctions which went down pretty well.

Sardine Pizza

The pizza based was brushed with garlic oil, then grated gruyere and grana padano cheese were added. Fresh sardine fillets placed skin-side up around the pizza. I then added semi-dried cherry tomatoes -these area great alternative to using a tomato paste. After the pizza came ouyt of the oven I added capers, slices of radicchio, parsley and slices of lemon. Just excellent!

Moroccan Chicken Pizza

This was a bit of a twist on one that I’ve made a few times. Mozzarella, garlic confit, roast chicken, roast sweet potato, roast beetroot, rosemary. Ricotta, toasted pine nuts and pomegranate syrup were added after it was cooked. Very nice. Goats cheese would have worked fine, and perhaps a bit of diced chilli.

I have a number of pizza recipes and ideas here.

Pesto Sardine Pizza

April 6, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Pizza night here tonight. This was the standout.

There are two ways that you can do this.

1. Marinate the sardines in 2 tsp pesto and brush the pizza base with garlic oil.

2. Marinate the sardines in garlic oil and brush the pizza base with pesto.

On this occasion we did the first method.

Ingredients

Garlic oil
Pesto
Buffalo mozarella
5 fresh sardines or 10 fillets
about 20 cherry tomatoes
1/2 red capsicum, roasted and sliced
Grana padano cheese
Baby basil leaves
Squeeze of lemon juice

Cut cherry tomatoes in half. Sprinkle liberally with sea salt. Leave for 20 mins. Splash with olive oil. Cook at 160C in an oven dish for 30-45 mins.

Brush the pizza base with garlic oil or pesto. Scatted with shredded mozzarella.

Place raw sardines evenly around pizza (they will cook on the pizza).

Place cherry tomatoes in the babes between the sardines. Grate some Grana padano cheese (or parmesan) on top.

Cook the pizza. We use a pizza stone and cook for about 10 mins at 220-230 C.

Squeeze lemon juice over the top and add baby basil leaves.