BBC Good Food - 04.2020

154 bbcgoodfood.com APRIL 2020

For a takeaway-style dinner with

minimal ingredients, you can’t go

wrong with a homebaked pizza

recipe ESTHER CLARK photograph TOBY SCOTT

ingredients

Ju st 5

Sausage & pesto pizzas

Cheesy, meaty and herby, these

pizzas are cleverly thrown together

with just a handful of ingredients,

leaving you with a moreish

charred wood-fire-style finish.

SERVES 4 PREP 20 mins plus

defrosting COOK 40 mins EASY

2 x 220g frozen pizza dough

400g can chopped tomatoes

3 pork sausages

olive oil for frying

6 tbsp fresh pesto

2 x 125g balls buffalo mozzarella

basil leaves, to serve (optional)

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last bite

tip

Swap the

sausages for

cured meats,

if you prefer,

or portobello

mushroom slices,

if you want them

to be meat-free.

long. Top with a layer of the

tomato sauce, then swirl in the

pesto. Tear the mozzarella and

scatter that over along with the

sausage meatballs. Slide the

pizzas onto the hot baking sheet

and cook for 18-20 mins or until

crisp and charred at the edges.

Scatter over a few basil leaves

to serve, if you like.

GOOD TO KNOW calcium • 1 of 5-a-day

PER SERVING 544 kcals • fat 27g • saturates 11g •

carbs 49g • sugars 4g • fibre 5g • protein 23g •

salt 2.9g

1 Remove the pizza dough from

the freezer 1-2 hrs before cooking

to defrost. Heat the oven to

220C/200C fan/gas 7. Put a large

baking sheet in the oven to heat.

2 Tip the chopped tomatoes into

a saucepan, simmer uncovered

for 15 mins until reduced and

saucy, then season to taste.

3 Squeeze the sausagemeat out

of the skins, into a bowl and divide

into 10 small balls. Pour a glug of

olive oil into a frying pan and fry

the meatballs over a medium heat

for 5 mins until golden brown.

4 Roll out the dough into two

oval-shaped pizzas about 20cm

Shoot director PETER RÜPSCHL

| Food stylist ESTHER CLARK

| Stylist MORAG FARQUHAR

For

this

five-ingredient series, we do not include storecupboard essentials like oil, or optional ingredients.