Sometimes you need to have a quick meal that you can prepare without too much fuss or hassle. For me that has to be pizzas. I have a bread maker and so use that to make the pizza dough. It takes me about 5 minutes to weigh out the ingredients and get the container into my bread maker and then the bread maker takes 50 minutes to transform the flour and water into dough. The only effort required on my part is to roll out the dough, add the toppings and ‘throw’ it into the oven. I find that pizzas are really child friendly, and you can put out the toppings out in order for them to pick and choose what they want. Last Sunday I needed to make a snack platter and had a lot of left over pizza dough. I made two pizzas and Dave and I shared both of them. It worked quite well as the pizza was still quite hot when I got the last bite of the first one, and the second one was nearly ready to come out of the oven. I chose simple toppings for our Sunday pizza lunch – tomatoes, mushrooms and proscuitto.
What is your hassle free meal?
Bread Maker Pizza Dough
Ingredients
- 200 mls water
- 20 mls olive oil
- 5 mls finesalt
- 375 g bread flour
- 8.75 mls instant dried yeast
Method
- Place the ingredients into your bread maker in the order listed above, from the water to the yeast
- Select the dough - pizza setting
- Preheat the oven to 200° Celsius with a pizza stone in the oven if you have one
- Once proved remove the dough from the bread maker and divide in two
- Roll out on a lightly floured surface, as thin as you would like the crust
- Place the dough onto baking paper
- Add your toppings
- Place onto the pizza stone and bake for 15 minutes
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Disclosure: I was sent Two Oceans Wine to take part in the Simple Snacking challenge. This post will form part of my entry. This post is in line with my blogging policy.
What I blogged:
- one year ago – Challah | Kitka | Braided Bread
- three years ago – Bone Marrow and Artichoke Heart Risotto
This is a good recipe to have 🙂
Thank you Marta 🙂
I love a quick and delicious meal like this. It looks great! Plus, who doesn’t love some homemade pizza?!
thank you Amy, and thanks for the visit 🙂
I am always up for pizza! I had no idea you could use a bread maker to make the dough…very cool.
it really helps to use the bread maker 🙂
What a great idea… though a bread maker is probably the ONE appliance I don’t have! My hassle-free meal is tacos- I’ve made them so many times, I can make them with my eyes closed!
I have never tried making tacos! I use my bread maker so often it has basically paid for itself 🙂
Wow, you make it sound and look so simple! Thank you for sharing.
My pleasure Lizzy 🙂
What a great way of quickly making pizza 😀
Yum!
Cheers
CCU
Thanks Uru 🙂
Tandy, you make such wonderful use of your breadmaker! I love the idea of “instant” pizza! 🙂
I would not cope without it!
Like you, this is a speedy meal for us. When in Spain I use the breadmaker too but here in England the houses are so warm that the dough doesn’t take too long to rise. I always have tomato sauce in the fridge and we get to put our favourite toppings. Love your sundowner snacks – very much like ours too 🙂
I based my snacks on what we got in the South Of Italy 🙂
I’m always intrigued with the ease use of bread maker. Must make it even more easier to enjoy homemade loaves 🙂
It must be one of the easiest home appliances to use, and it saves so much time and effort 🙂
I also use my breadmaker for pizza dough – I probably use it more for that than bread!
It is a great way to make dough Corina 🙂
This is a good recipe to have. Thank you for sharing.
My pleasure 🙂
Awesome! Will be trying this one!
Good use for your bread maker xxx