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Making your own pizza not only takes less time than waiting for home delivery, but it is many times healthier too.  Buy a few frozen bases to keep in your freezer, and always have on hand sachets of tomato paste. You can freeze what you don’t use for up to three months!  I like to sprinkle some chilli flakes on for a bit of zing.

Ingredients

Serves 2

1 cup of veges, sliced (see suggestions)
½ cup of meat  eg Shredded salami, ham, SPAM, shredded chicken, cooked mince
¾ cup grated mozarella cheese
½ small thinly sliced onion
3 tablespoons of tomato paste
A few fresh basil leaves and oregano leaves (substitute 1 teaspoon dried italian herbs)

Method

1. Pre-heat oven to 220 degrees celcius
2. Spread unthawed pizza base with tomato paste leaving a 1cm border for the crust
3. Sprinkle half cup mozarella on the base. At this stage, add your herbs (chilli flakes, basil leaves, oregano etc)
4. Arrange topping in a consistent layer on base and top with remaining cheese
5. Place on a tray in oven for 10-15mins (see instructions on pizza base box) – or for extra crispy base, place directly onto oven rack.

Suggestions

Mushroom pizza – 1 cup of sliced mushroom caps
Ham and mushroom – ½ cup sliced ham, ½ cup shredded mushrooms
Supreme – 8 whole slices of salami, ¼ cup thinly sliced green capsicum, handful sliced mushrooms, pepperoni
Chicken – ¾ cup shredded barbeque chicken, 2 rashers thinly sliced bacon, ¼ cup diced red capsicum

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