Mexican Pizza Recipes

Ingredients:

* 1 quantity Basic corn meal pizza dough
* 1 tablespoon olive oil
* 1 small brown onion, finely chopped
* 350g lean beef mince
* 1 cup thick tomato salsa (see recipe at the bottom of this page)
* 125g can corn kernels, drained
* 1/4 cup tomato paste
* 3/4 cup grated tasty cheese
* 1 large avocado, halved, stone removed, peeled, mashed
* 1/2 lemon, juiced
* 30g tortilla chips

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 200°C.
2. Grease a 30 cm round pizza tray.
3. Heat oil in a frying pan and sauté onion, stirring for 3 to 4 minutes or until soft.
4. Add the mince and cook for 5 minutes or until browned.
5. Add salsa and corn.
6. Season and simmer until thickened slightly.
7. Remove from heat.
8. Roll the cornmeal dough into a 30 cm round.
9. Place the pizza dough on the prepared tray.
10. Spread with tomato paste.
11. Top with mince mixture and cheese.
12. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until the pizza base is crisp and golden.
13. Combine avocado and a tablespoon lemon juice spoon on to the center of pizza and garnish with avocado topped by the tortilla chips.

Recipe Pizza Home

Over the years I've enjoyed eating pizza and now my favourite pastime is making them. I've collected many recipes and brought them together for this website. Some of you might be wondering what the benefits of home made pizzas are in these times when you can order pizza online. These are the 3 main benefits in my opinion:

1. Making pizza is fun!
2. Home made pizzas are healthy, the
ones from your local pizza delivery are
not.
3. You can adapt any pizza recipe to your
own taste.

OK, now lets get started. I recommend starting at the pizza dough section, then moving on to the pizza sauce section before finally taking a stroll into the pizza topping area.

What are you waiting for? It's time to roll up those sleaves and get stuck in!!

History

The bread base of the pizza (called the “crust” in the United States and Canada) may vary widely according to style: thin as in hand-tossed pizza or Roman pizza, thick as in pan pizza, or very thick as in Chicago-style pizza. It is traditionally plain, but may also be seasoned with butter, garlic, or herbs, or stuffed with cheese.

In restaurants, pizza can be baked in a gas oven with stone bricks above the heat source, an electric deck oven, a conveyor belt oven or, in the case of more expensive restaurants, a wood- or coal-fired brick oven. On deck ovens, the pizza can be slid into the oven on a long paddle called a peel and baked directly on the hot bricks or baked on a screen (a round metal grate, typically aluminum). When making pizza at home, it can be baked on a pizza stone in a regular oven to imitate the effect of a brick oven. Another option is grilled pizza, in which the crust is baked directly on a barbecue grill. Greek pizza, like Chicago-style pizza, is baked in a pan rather than directly on the bricks of the pizza oven.

In home-made pizza, there are many variations on the bread used for crust. In some countries, creations such as french bread pizza, pita pizza, bagel pizza, matzo pizza, and tortilla pizza are popular.