Simple way to make your own pizza, no oven required.
Recipe (2 serving)
Ingredients
- 5 slices of white bread
- 4 Eggs
- Ketchup Sauce (4 tbsp)
- Cooking Oil
- Worcestershire Sauce (1 tbsp)(Optional)
- Toppings of choice
- Arabiki Sausage (4)
- Prawn (200g)
- Red Bell Pepper (1)
- Baby Corn (5)
- Shredded Mozzarella (100g)/(or as your heart desires)
Feel free to use your toppings of choice*
Tools needed
Non-stick frying pan with a lid
Steps
- Cut the slices of white bread into small squares (approximately 4×4)
- Crack the eggs into a bowl and add the sliced white bread, mixing till incorporated
- Cut the toppings with a brunoise cut (or into tiny cubes)
- Mix the Ketchup and Worcestershire Sauce together
- Add oil into a cold non-stick frying pan
- Set the fire (or temperature) to low, it will stay at low all the way
- Pour the egg and bread mixture into the frying pan
- Arrange the mixture into a roughly circular pattern, ensuring there are no large gaps in the middle
- After 3 minutes, add the Ketchup/Worcestershire sauce onto the bread
- Spread the Ketchup sauce evenly across the bread
- Add your toppings and put the lid onto the pan and let it steam for 5 minutes or till toppings are fully cooked
- Add shredded Mozzarella and place the lid back on
- Once the cheese has melted, serve while hot
This recipe is adapted off a Tiktok video from the_health_bites
Using white bread as a pizza base
A strong blast of heat, crisping up the base of the dough, letting every bite have a crunch to it. Placing a pizza steel into their ovens, or even buying whole pizza ovens allows one to reach the stratospheric temperatures required to achieve the crisp base with no sogginess.
An alternative is the use of plan white bread instead.
No speciality equipment required. The classic loaf found from the neighbourhood supermarket serves as the base of this recipe. From there, it is a canvas for your imagination.
Toppings for your pizza bread
As long as you take into consideration that the toppings will be steamed, you have free rein of toppings.
Steaming your food means the toppings will not be cooked at a high temperature throughout the whole process. Having each ingredient in smaller portions, or pre-cooked helps ensure everything will be cooked throughout. Processed meat or prawns that are fully cooked in a fast manner are perfect for this.
Do note that the temperature of the stove cannot be increased further. Doing so will burn the base of your pizza.
Cooking the pizza
Now, one might ask why not just place the toppings over a single slice of bread and toast it in the oven.
The egg mixture binds the whole mess together allowing you to form a bigger base. Bigger base = more surface area for the toppings. The circular shape is more in-line with the classic shape of a pizza, something that will better appeal to kids.
During the whole process, the heat should be kept at low for risk of burning the base. If done right, you will get thin crust loaded with flavour.
Let me know how you find the recipe below!