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It's Pizza Time! (Voglia di pizza!)

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By my Italian cuisine


Making pizza at home is nice and much more healthy (less salt, less fat and you know what you eat!) and more: you can make your own pizza on your taste ;) It's funny to do it with children: they love preparing and decorating their own small pizzas in a funny way. Last week I had a pizza party at home. I prepared a variety of my handmade pizzas...with olives and salami, Speck ham and mushrooms, asparagus and cherry tomatoes and a classic Margherita with oregano. Here you have some pictures and you can use them as suggestion for your own Home made pizza parties. For the pizza dough please see our basic pizza recipe here.
Makes 4 round Pizzas:
Ingredients:
1 portion of Pizza dough, see recipe here devided in 4 parts
For the "pizza with green olives, mushrooms and salami":
1 medium mozzarella
2 Tbs of tomato puree
1 cup of green olives
1 cup of finely sliced fresh mushrooms
Few slices of salami Milano
1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil
Pepper to taste



For the pizza with speck mushrooms and rosmary
1 medium mozzarella
2tbs of tomato puree
1 cup of finely sliced fresh mushrooms
3 slices of Italian Speck ham
1 teaspoon of fresh or dry rosemary
1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil
 
For the pizza with asparagus and cherry tomatoes:
1 medium mozzarella
6 cooked (steamed or boiled) green asparagus
6 cherry tomatoes
salt and pepper to taste

For the pizza Margherita with origan:
1 medium mozzarella
2 Tbs of tomato puree
1 Tbs of olive oil
1 teaspoon of dry or fresh oregano, if you don't like oregano you can use basi instead (see picture)
 

My cooking method from GIOGGIO' (sorry it's in italian) which I will never stop to thank. Preheat your oven to 220°C (preferably use the fan programm with bottom heat)

Devide the doug in 4 Parts.

Roll out each pizza pizza dough on a piece of parchment paper, with a rolling pin.

Decorate the pizza with all the ingredients starting from the Tomato puree.  Using the oven grid, place it on the bottom part of your electric oven (this cooking method only works for electric ovens!!). Cook for a few minutes, check  the cooking constantly, it burns very fast!

 Pizzas are now ready to eat...... have a nice pizza party, buon appetito!

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  1. catering service philippinesOctober 9, 2012 at 4:13 PM

    Cooking is such an art which not only make you happy or earns you appreciation but also can counter your appetite in a very delicious manner. This menu is fantastic, It sure will help everyone who’s looking for a perfect menu like this. Thank you for sharing this recipe.

    zonia

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  2. my Italian cuisineOctober 29, 2012 at 12:31 AM

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    1. my Italian cuisineOctober 29, 2012 at 12:33 AM

      You are welcome...thanks to you for your nice comment ;) Enjoy the recipes and ... buon appetito!

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