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    Home » Bread Recipes » Easy Cheese and Tomato Pizza

    Published: Aug 16, 2019 · Modified: Sep 8, 2020 by Ajoke

    Easy Cheese and Tomato Pizza

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    This easy cheese and tomato pizza recipe is a winner anytime especially when you've got little mouths to feed. Grown-ups are not left out either. A great Cheese pizza recipe the whole family would love.

    cheese and tomato pizza slices on a white plate.

    Cheese and Tomato Pizza

    The midterm break was some few days ago back here and my little madam, HRH requested pizza for brunch. Before you know it I was in the kitchen with her like some sort of a superwoman kneading away, well with help from the madam herself. She couldn't be much happier when I mentioned cheese and tomatoes, she loves anything CHEESE! The pizza was ready under 30 minutes, yes! Partly because it was the old classic cheese and tomato pizza and because I already have the tomato sauce frozen from the last time I used it.

    Pizza tomato sauce keeps well in the freezer but I’m yet to try frozen pizza dough so I can’t really tell you how well it would keep with any preservative. Going by the shop-bought frozen pizza, it should still last a while. If you are thinking of doing this and keeping in the freezer then you should be fine for at least 3 months.

    The cheese and tomato pizza was lovely and it was all gone under 15 minutes, the madam herself ate 4 slices. How she managed it, I don’t know. If you don’t have ready-made pizza tomato sauce, simply use ata dindin, passata or tomato paste and it would yield the same amazing result. You can add any topping of choice if you don't want just cheese. If you love cheese like me, then use more that one type of cheese as your topping.

    This pizza would be perfect with this salt and pepper chips or salt and pepper chicken wings

    Ingredients for Instant Pizza Dough

    300g all-purpose flour

    7g fast-action yeast

    125ml warm water

    Pinch of salt

    1tbsp sugar

    Ingredients For Pizza Tomato Sauce

    • 200g Passata
    • 1 tsp Oregano
    • handful fresh Basil substitute with 1 tsp dried basil
    • ½ tsp bouillon powder (optional)
    • Pinch of salt 
    • 2tbsp veg oil (optional)

    How to Make Tomato Sauce

    Add the tomato sauce ingredients to a pan and simmer on medium heat for about 10 minutes. Take it off the heat and leave to cool before adding to pizza dough. Alternatively, use one-part concentrated tomato, one-part water, mix it together and use as desired on pizza dough

    Some Pizza Toppings Ideas

     Mozerella cheese

     Cheddar cheese

    Sweet corn 

    Pineapple chunks

    Use the above according to preference

    instant pizza dough, tomato sauce and grated cheese.

    How to Make Cheese and Tomato Pizza

    • Preheat the oven at 200 to 220 degrees

    To make instant pizza dough

    Add the flour, sugar, salt and yeast into a bowl, mix to combine then add warm water and olive oil. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured worktop and knead until smooth. Continue to knead for another 3-5 minutes. Divide the dough into two and roll each dough to form a ball. Roll dough ball out to a circle.

    tomato sauce spread on pizza dough.

    Add any other topping at this stage if using

    Sprinkle the cheese as much as you want on the sauce and bake in the oven between 12 and 15 minutes or till the dough cooks through.

    Remove pizza from the oven, slice and enjoy.

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    easy cheese and tomato pizza
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    5 from 3 votes

    Easy Cheese and Tomato Pizza

    This cheese and tomato pizza is made from scratch. It is a fun recipe to make with kids and adults alike. Made with instant pizza dough and homemade tomato sauce, this very cheesy tomato pizza was ready in 30 minutes.
    Prep Time15 mins
    Cook Time15 mins
    0 mins
    Total Time30 mins
    Course: Main Course
    Cuisine: American, British
    Keyword: cheese and tomato pizza, easy pizza recipe, instant pizza dough, tomato sauce
    Servings: 4
    Author: Ajoke

    Ingredients

    Ingredients for Instant Pizza dough

    • 300 g all-purpose flour
    • 7 g fast action yeast
    • 125 ml warm water
    • Pinch of salt
    • 1 tbsp sugar
    • 2 tbsp olive oil

    Ingredients for tomato sauce

    • 200 g Passata
    • 1 tsp Oregano
    • handful fresh Basil substitute with 1 tsp dried basil
    • ½ tsp bouillon powder optional
    • Pinch of salt
    • 2 tbsp veg oil optional

    Instructions

    How to make tomato sauce

    • Add the tomato sauce ingredients to a pan and simmer on medium heat for about 10 minutes. Take it off the heat and leave to cool before adding to pizza dough. Alternatively, use one-part concentrated tomato, one-part water, mix it together and use as desired on pizza dough

    How to make instant pizza dough

    • Add the flour, sugar, salt and yeast into a bowl, mix to combine then add warm water and olive oil. Turn the dough unto a lightly floured worktop and knead until smooth. Continue to knead for another 3-5 minutes. Divide the dough into two and roll each dough to form a ball. Roll dough ball out to a circle.

    How to make cheese and tomato pizza

    • Preheat the oven at 200⁰C fan oven and 220⁰C conventional oven. Do this at least 30 minutes before baking the pizza.
    • Spread the sauce on the rolled pizza dough without letting it touch the border of the dough
    • Add any other topping at this stage if using
    • Sprinkle the cheese as much as you want on the sauce and bake in the oven between 12 and 15 minutes or till the dough cooks through and cheese bubbling.
    • Remove pizza from the oven, slice and enjoy.

    Recipe originally posted in February 2016 now updated with pictures and more text.

    If you made this pizza, don’t forget to leave me feedback. Tag me on Instagram and save away to your Pinterest

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    Comments

    1. Food Recipe Industry says

      August 08, 2020 at 3:14 am

      5 stars

      5 stars
      This really looks great!

      I featured this pizza as one of the top 5 made by Nigerian chefs. Your pizza is awesome.

      You may want to check it out

      https://foodrecipeindustry.com/how-to-make-pizza-at-home-5-awesome-recipes-by-nigerian-chefs

      Reply
    2. Mariam says

      May 16, 2019 at 10:44 am

      Hello Ajoke!. I love your blog so much. You mentioned boiling the tomato twice? Does it need to be boiled and fried? I was thinking that it needed to be boiled once. Thank you.

      Reply
      • Ajoke says

        May 16, 2019 at 10:07 am

        Hi Mariam, thank you so much! No you only boil the sauce once. I will check the recipe again and update accordingly. Kindly let me know how it turns out and thanks again for stopping by.

        Reply
    3. coolthoom says

      July 11, 2016 at 2:34 pm

      5 stars
      Hi,
      Your blog is really lovely. Well done and thank you for all the effort and lessons.

      Reply
      • Ajoke says

        July 11, 2016 at 5:31 pm

        Awww thanks a lot for your kind words

        Reply
    4. ateeyerh saeed says

      February 24, 2016 at 5:58 pm

      Pls am in nigeria n wld lyk to knw wat I can use in place of d oregano, pasata, n basil or aw dey are cald in nigeria terms. Rilli nyc job u av here.

      Reply
      • Ajoke says

        February 24, 2016 at 6:16 pm

        Hello, blend fresh tomato and tomato puree together and boil till reduced in size (slightly thick and not too dry) For the herbs, use chopped scent leave. thanks and I hope this helps

        Reply

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