{Breadmaker recipe} Easy Peasy Homemade Pizza

Only have an hour to prepare dinner? What about some homemade pizza? We had ours ready in slightly more than an hour, and that's because I let the duo helped out, otherwise it would have been much faster.. 

Pineapple Cured Ham, Button Mushrooms & Bell Pepper Pizza

Tuna Pizza & Cherry Tomato Pizza

This recipe uses my Panasonic breadmaker, but you can do it without a machine too.

Ingredients for pizza dough:

• 280g high protein / high gluten flour

• 15g unsalted butter

• 2 teaspoons sugar (optional)

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 190ml water

• 1 teaspoon instant yeast

Pizza Toppings - as per picture below:

The Making:

1. Drop all ingredients into the breadmaker pan as per listed sequence, yeast in separate yeast drop compartment, then select "Dough" menu (#9 on Panasonic), the dough shall be ready in 45 minutes.

For mixer method, refer here thin crust sausage pizza.

2. Once done, remove dough from pan immediately, or you may leave it in the pan if you want to let it ferment (that will be ideal for thick pizza) 

3. Preheat oven to 210°c.

4. Using a rolling pin, spread out the pizza dough to 2 large rectangular or circulr shapes, spread with a layer of tomato purée then follow by the filling of your choice (ham, bacon, salami, mushrooms, bell peppers, cherry tomato etc), top with loads of shredded mozzarella cheese and Parmesan cheese. I sprinkled some fresh parsley leaves too.

Ready for bake.

5. Bake each pizza for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Let it cool down slightly then cut with a pizza cutter.

I made some fresh garden salad with roasted sesame dressing... Sprinkled with lots of roasted almond flakes for extra crunchiness, cranberries & golden raisins for natural sweetness. Never a meal without some fresh veggies :) 

Bon appetite!

Merry Christmas! Let's celebrate with good food

We invited our extended family to come over for Christmas dinner without knowing what we want to cook exactly (daring huh..). After the morning service at church and spending few hours at Pavilion, one of the most popular shopping malls in town well-known for its grand Christmas decor, I made a quick plan of what to cook and got the ingredients right before heading home.

Christmas dinner ready just in time before the guest arrived..

I wanted to add some Christmasty feel to the meal this time instead of the ordinary stuff, so I made these...

Pull-away Pizza Christmas Tree!

We have a 6" tall Christmas tree in the house and a miniature one on our dinning table. It's made of few circular pizza doughs, topped with loads of tomato purée, pepperoni, white mushrooms, macaroni & cheddar cheese and fresh basil leaves. To serve, just tear off and pop right into the mouth!

The preparation is really really simple...

Happily pulling away...

The recipe for this homemade pizza is available here. Only different was that I used my Panasonic bread maker to make the pizza dough this time which saved me a lot of time. The basil leaves were added after the pizza was done so they retain the greenish look. You may read the machine review here in case you are considering to get one...

Non-Baked Very Berry Cheesecakes!

We had some fresh strawberries and blueberries at home, so what's more perfect than making some cup-size cheesecakes that are pretty and delicious at the same time..

Served chilled...

And I do have a cheesecake recipe ready for sharing, here you go... non-bake cheesecake, instead of mango just top with fresh blueberries and strawberries.

I even added some berries underneath the cheese layer to make them really berry-merry. You may want to prepare this at least 4 hours before meal time for it to be fully chilled.

Crispy Bacons & Green Peas Macaroni!

The kid's favorite. Some how cheese, macaroni and bacons always work with the kiddos.

Well, although its not cooked by me this time, I do have the Mac 'n Cheese recipe for sharing, click here to find out..

And there's more good food... my mom-in-law's famous Siew Yuk! (non halal, pardon me..)

Roast Whole Chicken

The roast chicken was served with mouth homemade cranberry jam, all homemade by my sis-in-law who's great with food.

A similar Rosemary roast chicken recipe was shared 2 Christmas ago, you may find it here.

So good... So share...

With that, we had a peaceful and joyous dinner follow by gift unwrapping and chit chatting accompanied by the soft playing of Christmas songs by our favorite band -- The Piano Guys. 

Hope you have a good Christmas with your loved ones too. 

Merry Christmas! XOXO

Thin Crust Sausage Pizza 创意脆皮披萨

*Updated*

Pizza, I think of it as an open-platform. It provides a simple base so versatile that it can easily "integrate" with nearly all ingredient, from meat to veggie to seafood. (pardon if I sound geeky :))

My personal favorite is thin crust pizza, with loads of toppings and melted mozzarella cheese... The thought of it already makes my tummy grumbling. Ethan loves helping me to spread the pizza toppings & the cheese, he does mess up a little (with bits of cheese or olives on the floor) but we certainly have fun! :)

Preparation Time: 45 min
Cooking Time: 10 min
Serving for: 2 Large Pizzas