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    Home » Family Friendly Recipes » Easy Recipes for Kids

    Recipe & Tutorial: DIY Pizza Party

    Mar 1, 2013 · 11 Comments

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    Last week during half term we had some friends come around to play for the day.  I decided that it would be fun for the children to cook their own lunch, and thought that pizza would be the easiest option.  I made up a batch of pizza dough and some homemade tomato sauce (recipes below), then prepared small bowls of toppings for the children to use. 

    I used what I had to hand in the fridge, but you could add or substitute any of these toppings with your own ingredients.  The toppings we had were chopped mozzarella, quartered cherry tomatoes, sliced spring onion, chopped pepperoni slices, grated cheddar cheese and chopped red and yellow pepper.

    Eats Amazing - DIY Pizza Party Pizza Toppings

    Each child rolled out their piece of dough with a rolling pin, placed the dough on a baking tray sprinkled with semolina (you could just oil the tray or sprinkle with flour if you don’t have semolina to hand), spread over the tomato sauce and added their own toppings.  They finished their pizzas with a sprinkling of dried oregano.  We baked them in the oven on a high heat for about 10 minutes, and then served them up with a plate of crudités (carrot sticks, cucumber sticks, red and yellow pepper slices and cherry tomatoes) and some sour cream and chive dip.Eats Amazing - DIY Pizza Party Crudités Plate

    In all the excitement I forgot to take pictures of the children’s pizzas (which were truly works of art!), but here is a slightly blurry picture of Small Child enjoying his!

    Small Child Pizza Party

    Below I have provided recipes for the dough and the tomato sauce, so you can  try it for yourself.

    Eats Amazing - DIY Pizza Party, Recipes & Tutorial

    I used the following pizza dough recipe slightly adapted from one of my  favourite recipe books (River Cottage Everyday by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall):

    Ingredients:

    250g Plain White Flour
    250g Strong White Bread Flour
    1 tsp Quick  Yeast
    1 Heaped tsp Sea Salt Flakes
    2 Tbs Olive Oil
    Semolina, for  dusting oven tray (optional)

    Method:

    Place the flours, yeast, salt & 325ml warm water in a large  bowl.  Mix roughly together, then add the olive oil and mix with your  hands until it all comes together as dough.  Tip out onto a clean work  surface, scraping all of the dough out of the bowl, and start kneading.  It  will be sticky, but don’t add any flour at this point; it should get less sticky  as you go along.  Knead for about 10 minutes until the dough is smooth and  silky.  You can add a little flour at this stage if it is still a  little sticky, then knead for a minute or two more until you have a ball of  dough.  Brush your bowl with a little more olive oil, then place the dough  inside, cover with cling film and leave somewhere warm until it has risen and  doubled in size.

    Eats Amazing - Homemade Pizza Dough RecipeOnce risen, split the dough into pieces and roll out flat.  Place on an  oven tray sprinkled with semolina, top with tomato sauce and your chosen  toppings then bake in a hot oven for 10-12 minutes.

    This recipe made enough dough for 2 adults and 4 children.  If you have  any spare dough why not make mini pizzas or calzones to freeze for a future  lunchbox?

    I also made an easy tomato sauce for the pizzas, again adapted from a recipe  from the ‘River Cottage Everyday’ book:

    Ingredients:

    1 Tbs Olive Oil
    1 Garlic Clove, or 1 Shallot, finely sliced
    1 400g Tin  Chopped Tomatoes
    1 tsp Dried Mixed Herbs

    Method:

    Heat the oil in a saucepan over a gentle heat, then add the garlic or shallot  (or a combination of both if you like) to the oil.  Fry until starting to  turn golden, then add the tin of tomatoes and the herbs.  Simmer for  about 10-15 minutes until you have a thick sauce.  The sauce can be used as  it is, or blended until it is smooth if preferred (I blended mine this  time).  Any leftover sauce can be frozen for future use on pizza or stirred  into pasta.

    Eats Amazing - DIY Pizza Party Homemade Tomato Sauce Recipe

    Homemade pizzas are much healthier than takeaway or shop bought pizza,  because you have control over all of the ingredients.  You could make them  even healthier by using wholemeal flours if wanted.  I used all organic  ingredients, and still managed to make pizza for 6 people at a very low  cost.  The children loved making their own pizzas and creating designs with  the toppings, picky eaters were able to choose what they wanted on their pizza  and of course they enjoyed eating them too! What would you put on your own  homemade pizza?

    Grace

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    1. Diana Rambles says

      March 08, 2013 at 2:03 pm

      Congratulations! This post is featured over at Diana Rambles today and has been pinned in the Featured at Diana Rambles board at Pinterest. Please grab a featured button off my sidebar or via the link under the features. Thanks for sharing this awesome idea

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    2. Mel says

      February 02, 2014 at 12:01 am

      What a great idea! I have just pinned it. I will definitely do this with my little ones! Mel #RecipeoftheWeek

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      • Grace says

        February 22, 2014 at 9:24 am

        Thank you!

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    3. Coombemill says

      February 02, 2014 at 12:35 am

      Great way to get everyone joining in the food making

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      • Grace says

        February 22, 2014 at 9:25 am

        I agree, the children love it!

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    4. Mandy says

      February 02, 2014 at 8:35 pm

      What a fabulous idea - my kids love making pizza but I've never thought to involve their friends. Bound to be a winner! #RecipeoftheWeek

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      • Grace says

        February 22, 2014 at 9:26 am

        Thank you! I keep getting requests to make pizza from all of Small Child's friends now!

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    5. Sammie Hodges says

      February 03, 2014 at 10:48 am

      I didn't realise making my own tomato sauce could be so easy! Thank you for the fab recipe!

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      • Grace says

        February 22, 2014 at 9:27 am

        It's so easy, do try it, you'll never buy the jars again!

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    6. Emily @amummytoo says

      February 08, 2014 at 7:03 pm

      Brilliant post - my love love helping prepare their own dinners. Thank you for linking up to #recipeoftheweek. It’s always appreciated 🙂 I’ve Pinned and Tweeted this post and there’s a new linky just gone live - would love you to join in x

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      • Grace says

        February 22, 2014 at 9:27 am

        Thank you, my pleasure! 🙂

        Reply

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