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.
Servings: 4
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.