How to Make Pizza Dough

I learned how to make pizza from a wonderful lady called Bruna! This is the best dish ever! It's simple and tasty! Plus, if you have one or more little ones who can help you prepare it, its even better!

Pizza Dough Ingredients:
Flour about 500 gr/ 1 pound
7 grams of dry yeast (1/4 ounce)
300 ml (1 and 1/3 cup)  water  and milk (half and half)
1-2 small spoon of salt
2 small spoons of sugar
3 spoons of olive oil




Step 1: Mix the milk and hot/ warm water to obtain a warm liquid.
Step 2: Add almost all the flour in a bowl. You will use the rest to adjust the consistency as needed.
Step 3: Dig a hole in the centre of the flour and add to it the salt, sugar, yeast and oil.
Step 4:  Start adding slowly the warm liquid and mixing all together in slow round motion.
Step 5: Keep mixing and adding the liquid. You need to mix it until you obtain an not sticky dough.
Step 6: After mixing it all, keep pressing and mixing the dough for 10 minutes. How to do this step is better explained in the video linked in this page.
Step 7: Cover the dough and live it raise in room temperature for about 2 hours
Step 8: Place the dough in a plain surface and lay it flat.


You are done!
For the pizza we choose to have two traditional ones:

1. Onion and Tuna
So we will use:
1 Small onion
Tomato sauce
200 gr (less than half a pound) of mozzarella for pizza.
One small can of tuna in olive oil
2. Mushrooms and hum
Here we used:
A bunch of dried porcini mushrooms
4-5 shampignon mushrooms
2 big slices of hum
200 gr (less than half a pound) of mozzarella for pizza and a fresh mozarella

To make the pizza you add first the tomato sauce then the cheese and then all the other ingreedients.

Bake for about 20 min in a preheated ventilated oven at  200 degrees (392 Fahrenheit). Note that times may vary depending on your oven and the amount of water that is created by the ingredients.

Sneaky Vegetable Rice (Risotto or Long grain)

This is a great dish that can be used as a vegetarian (by substituting chicken stock with water) or vegan dish (by also using oil instead of butter and skipping the cheese). My love with this recepe is for its second purpose, which is making my picky eater, eat vegetables. I hope you like it as much as we do!
 
Preparation time: 35 min
Difficulty: Simple
Servings: 4

Ingredients:

    Rice (Risotto or long grain)    200gr / 1 cup
    Butter    30gr / 1 ounce
    Mushrooms Champignon    6-8 pieces
    Courgette/Zucchini    1 piece
    Carrot    1 piece
    Ognon    1 piece
    Parmasan cheese (or )    30 gr / 1 ounce
    oil    4 full spoons
    chicken stock    if you wish


Procedure:

1. Grate all the vegetables
2. Mix the grated vegetables, the oil and the rice in a pan and stir-fry them in medium heat.Remove from heat when the rice is golden or earlier if it starts attaching to the pan.
3. In another pan, pour your chicken stock / water (about 1 l) and bring it to a boil. You can always add more if you need it.
4. Add small amounts of boiling water (about 200 ml or the equivalent of a small glass at a time).
5. Adjust salt.
6.  Continue by adding more stock/water when it reduces. You do this until the rice is cooked.
7. At the end add the butter and the cheese. Leave it rest for 10 minutes and then serve.

For more details and insides you can watch the video:

Sweet potato wrap/ flat bread

We have a picky eater at home. So I am always looking into ways to make my daughter eat more vegetables. This is an easy recipe for a flat bread with hidden sweet potatoes. We love the taste so this is why I am sharing it with you.

Sweet potato wraps

 Ingredients (8-10 Wraps)

    Sweet Potato: 2 pieces
    White flour: 300 gr / 2-3 cups
    Creamy cheese:  1 table spoon
    Olive oil: 4 table spoons
    Backing powder: 1 small spoon
    Sugar: 1 small spoon
    Salt: 1 small spoon



 Preparation:
1) Peal and cut the sweet potatoes. Steam them until they are soft.
2) Using a fork, mash the sweet potatoes. Add also the oil and the cheese
3) Mix the remaining ingredients, starting from the sugar, the salt and the baking powder. Add the flour slowly as it may take less than what expected (depends on humidity, how large the sweet potatoes are, if you added more oil ect) 
4) Keep mixing the flour little by little until you obtain a non sticky dough. This step should last at least 10 minutes. If you feel it is sticky add more flour.
5) When you have the dough, divide it into small balls that will make the wraps. Cover it and leave it rest for at least 30 minutes.
6) Using some more flour, roll out the dough into  a round shape. It should fit the frying pan where you will cook them.
7) Choose a wide non-stick frying pan, possibly with a think bottom. Put it in medium-high heat. Wait a bit until it is hot. No oil is needed. Place one of the wraps on top. Use a fork to make holes all over the wrap. Cook it about 2 minutes each side. The timing in indicative because it will depend a lot on the heat, how thick is your bread and the pan you choose. You know it is done when you see black points all over it (see the picture for some guidance).
 8) Cook all the wraps and then serve with your favorite ingredients. How about some cheese, ham, cherry tomatoes and avocado?

I also made a video to show you more in detail how I make it.

Thanks for reading/watching!

Lots of love- Sara!