Drink me with Food
Angus's homemade pizza base and tomato sauce
Ingredients:
The base:
3 cups self-raising flour
2 tbsp olive oil
3 pinches salt
1-2 bottles of pale ale
Tomato sauce:
2 onions
2 tins chopped tomatoes
3 cloves garlic
add to taste fine brown sugar
1 big handful of fresh basil
prepare a selection of your desired toppings
Place flour, olive oil and salt into large bowl (approximately twice the size of ingredients to allow dough to rise). Carefully add pale ale until the ingredients become a firm ball of dough. If the dough gets too wet and sticky carefully add small amounts of flour until it becomes firm. Leave in the bowl with a cloth over it for 2-3 hours.
Chop onions and place into a pan and cook until soft and brown. Add the garlic and 1 minute later add the 2 tins of chopped tomatoes. Bring to the boil then reduce to a simmer. Add brown sugar a tablespoon at a time to taste. Allow this to simmer for 10 minutes. Chop basil and add to sauce. Simmer for another 5 minutes. Pour ingredients into a blender and blend to a fine sauce.
Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees celcius with oven tray in the oven. It is essential for the oven tray to be hot to avoid the base sticking. On kitchen worktop sprinkle a light covering of flour. Take a piece of dough (about the size of a cup) and roll out on top of flour to make your base. Place base onto hot oven tray, spread with Angus's tomato sauce and add your choice of toppings. My kids love chopped mozzarella with fresh basil leaves. Place in oven and cook until the edges of the base start to brown.
Makes approximately 4 large pizzas.