Recipe: waste-me-not-pizza made from your own pizza dough
Mix, knead, knead, wait, turn, roll and ready. Making your own pizza dough is not difficult. Make a large amount of pizza dough and freeze it as small balls. That way you always have enough on hand when the fridge is full of vegetables and groceries that need to be used up. Because that's how you make the tastiest waste-me-not-pizzas. This recipe even made it into a cookbook!
Kitchenware
- 1 large bowl
- 1 measuring cup
- 1 scale
- 1 tablespoon
- 1 teaspoon
- 1 rolling pin
- 1 tea towel
Ingredients
- 250 gr flower
- ½ bag instant yeast
- ½ fluorescent sugar
- ½ fluorescent salt
- 2 el olive oil
- 150 ml lukewarm water
- various (leftover) vegetables such as aubergine, courgette, tomato and anything else you come across in the vegetable drawer, supermarket or Too Good To Go box (A 'blonde' pizza without tomato sauce can also be quite tasty.)
- mozzarella and grated cheese (or vegetable grater) (Vegetable grater from Vemondo (Lidl) is a tasty vegan choice).
Instructions
Making your own pizza dough
- Put the flour, yeast, salt, sugar and oil in a large bowl. Slowly pour in the lukewarm water.
- Knead everything into a firm dough that is not too sticky. Is it still sticky? Then add a little flour just until it kneads nicely.
- Take a clean tea towel and moisten it. Let the dough rise in the bowl under the damp tea towel for at least 40 minutes.
- Meanwhile, clean the kitchen and, after 30 minutes, turn on the oven to 230°C if necessary.
- After 40 minutes of rising, you can get started with the pizzas. Not ready to eat yet? Then place the dough in the fridge (with a damp cloth) for later that day. Or freeze the dough so you can make pizzas on another day. My advice is to make balls before freezing, so you don't defrost too much at once, that would be a waste.
Sandwich pizza
- If you decide to get started, the recipe is again very simple. Clean your countertop well with a clean sponge and some water and eco cleaner. Sprinkle some flour over the countertop so that the dough doesn't stick. Then divide the dough into small balls and from those balls knead and roll flat pizza bases.
- I carefully place the bases on the baking tray before starting to layer You can use (eco) oven paper or a silicone baking mat.
- Bake the pizzas in the oven: usually 8-10 minutes at 230°C. If you want a harder crust, you can turn the oven up a little higher.