Deep Pan Pepperoni Pizza

One of my favourite meals is a fresh large deep pan pizza from the pizza counter at our local supermarket. However, the last few months they have had a supply issue for their large pizza bases, meaning limited or little choice, so an unhappy Lucy.

After complaining to Tim (he does well to put up with me), he suggested I just made my own from scratch. Why didn't I think of that? The first and hardest task of this operation was finding a reasonably priced 14 inch deep pan pizza tray, as none of the high street stores seemed to sell them , luckily Ebay came to the rescue and my new pizza pan was on it's way.

So with Ingredients ready and pizza pan delivered I was ready to go. I started by making the dough, I'm not that experienced at using yeast to bake so it took a while to get the dough right and a while longer to kneed the dough. I left it for an hour to rise and it seemed to do what it was meant to do so I was quite happy.

After the dough was rolled and and placed in the bottom of the pizza pan,it was time to add the topping. As well as pepperoni, I also added some green chillies to give it a bit of a kick (that they did, must remember to cut the up smaller next time!).

I had purchased a mozzarella ball instead of grated mozzarella for the top of the pizza. I did try to grate the mozzarella ball, it worked reasonably well but will remember to get grated next time. With that on the top along with parmesan shavings it was ready for the oven.

15 minutes later and I was very happy with the result. The base had risen pretty well, and the pizza was nicely cooked.

Now to test it, the base was so light and much nicer that the shop purchased ones (think I might be converted to homemade pizzas every time). The topping was also just right, not too much cheese and nicely spicy.