How To Have A Fun Family Pizza Party!

Pizza Party

Family Pizza

Dr Kirsty Porter
Family Pizza Night anyone?!
Get the whole family involved, children, can help wash the veg, make the pizza base mixture, roll out the pizza and decorate them! This is a great way to encourage food acceptance as well. This can be a great family bonding night and has the added bonus of being a fake takeaway for the family! If you have a muffin tray and coloured cases/moulds place toppings in this and allow the kids to decorate their own pizza.
You can tailor each pizza to each family need preferences. This is a good way to switch it up by trying veg in a different way. Be creative as you can be, make it a competition to see who has the best looking pizza!
For babies, you can use crumpets as a base and add grated cheese, carrot, and passata on top and place them under the grill.
Food Allergens: Milk (can use dairy free cheeses), gluten (you can use gluten free base options)
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Main Course

Ingredients
  

  • Vegetables such as purple onions, peppers, sweetcorn, mushrooms, carrots, tomatoes
  • 1 Tin/Jar Passata or pasta/pizza tomato based sauce- can add basil & garlic for more flavour. You can get hidden veg sauces or make your own!
  • Various cheeses of choice such as grated cheese, mozzarella, gorgonzola, fontina, parmesan, goat's cheese, ricotta
  • Protein of choice- meat, fish, pulses
  • Base of choice- pitta/crumpet/naan bread/wraps/shop bought or you can make your own base

Pizza Base

  • 350 grams Self raising flour
  • 250 grams Natural Yoghurt
  • 1 tbsp Olive Oil
  • pinch Salt

Instructions
 

  • If making the base place all ingredients in a large bowl & mix well until you can’t move it anymore. Knead the dough for a few minutes until smooth. Put back in the bowl and cover with a towel.
  • Prep & grate vegetables.
  • Prep & grate cheese.
  • Place dough on flour dusted surface and divide into 8 pieces. Roll into thin rounds.
  • Place base on pizza tray/ greaseproof paper on a tray, add passata/sauce as a base, and add toppings.
  • Be creative as you want for the toppings- see below for ideas!
  • Cook in the oven @180c for 15 minutes or until the base is crispy. May only need 5-10 minutes depending on choice of base. Or follow instructions of your pizza oven.
  • Serve with veg/side salad.

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