friday's pizza lunch
Servings: 2
ingredients:
- 1 pizza pastry (for a round pizza (28-30 cm))
- 1 can tomato pulp (400 g - before draining)
- 1 tsp dried Mediterranean herbs
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 ball mozzarella (125 g)
- 20-40 g parmesan (grated)
- 100 g Italian bacon (thinly sliced)
- 1 onion (100 - 125 g)
- 1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves
- 4 small tomatoes
how to:
- Prepare the pizza pastry as recommended & roll it out on a baking tray lined w/ baking parchment.
- Drain the tomato pulp in a colander. Discard the water. Afterwards add the olive oil & the dried Mediterranean herbs & mix.
- Cut the mozzarella into slices.
- Grate the parmesan.
- Tear apart the thinly sliced bacon.
- Cut the onion into halves & then into thin slices.
- Fry the bacon & the thinly sliced onion for about 10 min. Neither bacon nor onion shouled get burnt.
- Pluck a lot of fresh thyme leaves.
- Halve the tomatoes & sqeeze the liquid & the pits/seeds.
- Distribute the drained tomato mess evenly all over the pizza. Add the grated parmesan. Add the bacon & onion mess. Add the thyme leaves. Add the the slices of mozzarella. Add the tomatoes.
- Bake for about 30 min at 175° C fan in the oven.
- Serve at once.
Notes
Pizza pastry: You may prepare your pizza pastry from the scratch w/ flour & yeast. (In this case add about 30-40 min for allowing the yeast to do its duty.) You may also rely on a pizza pastry mix to be prepared w/ adding water & some kneading. Or you may start w/ a ready-to-bake pizza pastry from the chiller cabinet of your trusted food store.
Dried Mediterranean herbs: I used herbs of Provence. There is also a mix called Italian herbs. You may also just add some dried oregano, thyme ... whatever you find in your pantry.
Parmesan: I happened to have a rest of grated parmesan from day before. It was about 35 g - so I used it all. You may also go w/ only 20 g of grated parmesan - or 40 g if you like.
Oven: I used a pizza pastry mix which doesn't require any preheating of the oven. Check what your solution needs. If working w/ homemade pizza pastry from the scratch you'll need preheating the oven.