This is a cheat's pizza that takes all of 10 minutes to prep and cook, that can be done on a flat sandwich toaster in the office or at home, or in the oven.
Ingredients:
Flour tortillas
Tomato paste sachet
Mozzarella cheese
Salt
Dried origanum or dried Italian herbs
Method:
Spread one tablespoon of tomato paste thinly on each flour tortilla
Top with cheese
Sprinkle some dried herbs on the top
Season with salt
Now either cook on a flat toasted sandwich maker with the lid positioned just above the cheese. Adjust the level on the side of the machine to get it just right. You might need to place something on the lid to keep it level. Careful the cheese doesn't melt off. If it starts to melt off before the base is cooked then simply open the lid. Cook until the base is crisp to your desire.
Alternative cooking method:
Simply place under a really hot preheated grill. Make sure that whatever you are cooking it on (sheet pan, for example) is very well heated before cooking. Don't start cooking from a cold pan underneath.
And that is it. Here are the results of my double stacked version (each cooked separately and then simply placed on top of each other):
I did mine in the sandwich-maker to test. The only downside with this method is it is relatively low heat so you won't get any char marks or proper browning. The oven would achieve this quite nicely and would force bubbling of the base, which is kinda authentic.
Go crazy with your toppings. I love a simple margarita pizza as described above but it will hold normal pizza toppings as well.
This takes all of ten minutes to prep and cook in the oven or a little longer to cook in the sandwich maker depending on how crisp you like your base. It also costs less than R20 each, so it is budget friendly, time-friendly, office-friendly. And if you top it with less cheese and more toppings like mushroom, onion, garlic, chilli etc, it can be heart healthy. The gluten content in the flour tortillas is far less than a regular pizza base and you don't have to go crazy with the cheese to get decent flavours.
Enjoy...
Ingredients:
Flour tortillas
Tomato paste sachet
Mozzarella cheese
Salt
Dried origanum or dried Italian herbs
Method:
Spread one tablespoon of tomato paste thinly on each flour tortilla
Top with cheese
Sprinkle some dried herbs on the top
Season with salt
Now either cook on a flat toasted sandwich maker with the lid positioned just above the cheese. Adjust the level on the side of the machine to get it just right. You might need to place something on the lid to keep it level. Careful the cheese doesn't melt off. If it starts to melt off before the base is cooked then simply open the lid. Cook until the base is crisp to your desire.
Alternative cooking method:
Simply place under a really hot preheated grill. Make sure that whatever you are cooking it on (sheet pan, for example) is very well heated before cooking. Don't start cooking from a cold pan underneath.
And that is it. Here are the results of my double stacked version (each cooked separately and then simply placed on top of each other):
I did mine in the sandwich-maker to test. The only downside with this method is it is relatively low heat so you won't get any char marks or proper browning. The oven would achieve this quite nicely and would force bubbling of the base, which is kinda authentic.
Go crazy with your toppings. I love a simple margarita pizza as described above but it will hold normal pizza toppings as well.
This takes all of ten minutes to prep and cook in the oven or a little longer to cook in the sandwich maker depending on how crisp you like your base. It also costs less than R20 each, so it is budget friendly, time-friendly, office-friendly. And if you top it with less cheese and more toppings like mushroom, onion, garlic, chilli etc, it can be heart healthy. The gluten content in the flour tortillas is far less than a regular pizza base and you don't have to go crazy with the cheese to get decent flavours.
Enjoy...
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