Ready Made Pizza Base Mix Review

Ingredients

Rather than using a pre-made pizza base I decide to try Tescos Pizza Base Mix. In the box there are two packets, each cooks one 8" pizza.

My other ingredients are peppers, pepperoni, mushrooms, grated cheese (not a good cheese for pizza) and onion.

For the base I used chilli sauce (pictured), tomato puree and some garlic sauce.

Mixing the Dough

Using the pre packed pizza dough mix was easy enough, no need for weighing flour and other stuff.

Following the instructions I emptied the base mix into a bowl, mixed in 100ml of hand hot water and kneaded the dough for 5 minutes before rolling out on a floured surface and leaving in a warm place for 10 minutes while I prepared the tomato base and other toppings.

Tomato Base

The tomato base was a mixture of tomato puree, a ready made chilli sauce (piri piri sauce, Asda) and a ready made garlic sauce (garlic ketchup from Asda)

Spread it around the base like the pic.

Please don't laugh at my attempt to roll out a circular pizza base, it's harder than it looks and I didn't fancy throwing and spinning the dough in the air like the professionals do.

Pizza Toppings

Here I've added some toppings, peppers, mushrooms, onion, pepperoni (Lid).

You can add anything you like, don't add too much like I have here. Keep it simple and stick to just a few ingredients. I think I've spoilt this by adding far too much.

There are some suggested pizza topping above for you to try.

Finished Pizza and Suggestions

Once you've finished adding your toppings it's a simple matter of popping the pizza in the oven, gas mark 7 for 20 minutes in this case until the cheese melts and it looks nice.

Here's a few suggestions and tips I've learnt from making this pizza.

• Don't add too many toppings, keep it simple
• Use a Pizza Baking Tray with holes, it gives a crispy base
• Don't use cheddar, it's too strong, use mozzarella
• Check out this website for Yummy Mummys while your pizza cooks ;)