I've had a lot of fun developing the next recipe, it's naughty but very nice and it's all done in
one pan. My very cheeky homemade pizza is so fast to make you don't even need to turn the
oven on. With a properly crispy base, it's topped with tomatoes, onions, red peppers,
and oozy cheese. Served with a crisp salad, this dish really delivers on flavour at 80 pence a
portion. So this cheats pizza is brilliant right? You can start and finish it from scratch much
quicker than your average takeaway. It's going to be a fraction of the price and we're not even
going to turn the oven on right it's all happening in the pan. So, 250 grams of self-raising flour
okay? That's going to give you the kind of sponginess, the crispiness. We're not going
to use any yeast and have it proven for hours and hours, no no no no no. A nice pinch of salt
then 150 millilitres of cold water. Get a fork taking just little bits of the flour,
you don't want to bust the well. So go around in circles, you'll see it getting
thicker and thicker, then you can just start bringing the sides in like this.
And this little dough that I'm making this is brilliant for quick little flatbreads, for little
naans. This is a brilliant principle in itself. Once it's come together just need this dough for
a minute or two and it's going to be definitely done from start to finish in much less time than
your average delivery is going to come through the door so it's a bit of a win-win really.
There's your dough. Let it just relax for a second. So, flavour, onion and pepper.
I'm going to use half a pepper and a runaway onion. Just take the stalk out and the seeds
and we'll slice that up. I'm going to finely slice the red onion and the peppers. Obviously
the finer you slice the peppers the quicker they're going to cook. The pan is getting hot,
we're going to go in with a nice lug of olive oil and we will scrape the onions and peppers in.
Now that's getting nice and hot just add a little drizzle of water and put a lid on. It's going to
cook the peppers and onions quicker, it's going to bring out the softness and the natural sugars,
also by using a lid it's more time efficient and economical for costs which is great. We
can give it a nice little shake like that. Let's get some cheddar cheese. Grate 50 grams
which is just about half of this. I'll have a little bit just to put on top when I finish it.
Let's have a little try. Yeah, it's already sweet. Super quick. Just put that on your board
and then the pan goes back. So this is when things get quite different - wipe out your pan,
get your dough, and just press it out.
So look this dough was so quick, no proving, no waiting for hours for the yeast to ferment and
do its business right we're cheating here. So just use your hand to push this out.
We're going to go in now with the dough. Hot pan. Lid goes on. You can see there's a little bit of
humidity there it's got the heat underneath, you can see the little bubbles coming up that's the
raising agent the self-raising flour kicking into action. So we're ready and raring to go. So it's
still fresh pizza right it's still got love it's just breaking a few rules. Let's flip it...
look at that colour. So we're going to turn the heat down a little bit now and then we're
going to go in with half a tin of tomatoes. You can use your hands to push this out.
We've got our lovely peppers and onions. That cheese, put some on the edge as well. So a small
amount of ingredients go a long way on a pizza. Salt and pepper. Maybe a little drizzle of oil.
The temperature's turned down to a medium, lid goes on top.
Let that cook until the bottom's crispy and the cheese is oozy okay? Enough time to knock
out a really simple salad, so I've got a round lettuce, I'm going to use a carrot and a speed
peeler to turn the humble carrot into something a bit more beautiful right? How quick was that?
It smells so good. If you're talking about being clever you know, budget friendly,
you've got an oozy top, a crispy base.
So look dress up your salad, a little bit of olive oil, vinegar salt pepper. You know this
is a cheats pizza and that's what we want in a busy life, right? I might have broken a lot of the
rules in this pizza but I like it. Super quick, incredibly budget friendly. Let's get amongst it
and have a little try.
That's hot.
Mm.
You've got sponginess, you've got crispy base.
Mm! The veggies are sweet, soft, seasoned. You've got the ooze from the cheese. Much cheaper than
the takeaway, much faster than the takeaway, but as a principle... and without even turning
the oven on. Naughty. But very nice. And what's not to love? When a few simple ingredients can
turn into a delicious crispy pizza. Served with a dressed salad it comes in at 80 pence a portion.