Friday night- pizza night

Before our son was born, Friday night was pizza night... Dominoes, Pizza Hut even local pizza stores, all on speed dial and menu's on the fridge ready for ordering.
For the last few weeks, we have been doing well with our one "takeout" meal a month.  Although tonight all I wanted was to call my friend Mr Dominoes- however, there was no chance of him taking an 'IOU'.

Recently after cleaning out our cupboard I found a packet of yeast, so what better way but to recreate our Friday night treats but with homemade pizza. I made this base in the bread maker, but I am sure you can also do it by hand.

Cranberry, Chicken and Mozzarella Pizza

Base

200ml Water
1 tbsp Olive oil
1 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups Bread flour
1 3/4 tsp yeast

Topping

Chopped roast chicken (I used left overs from the previous night)
3 cups grated Mozzarella
4 tbsp Cranberry jelly (I used Ocean Spray- Jellied Cranberry)

METHOD:

1. To make the base, add all items in the order stated above, water, oil, salt, flour and yeast into the breadpan and using the dough setting on your bread maker press start
2. I took my dough out 30 minutes prior to it being finished to make it more pliable (an hour in the bread maker) and on a floured board, rolled out/kneaded the dough into the pizza shape.
3. Preheat oven to 200c
4. On a lightly oiled tray place the pizza base. lightly oil the top of the base, then spread the cranberry jelly, 2 cups of mozzarella, the chicken and then sprinkle the remaining cheese.
5. Pop in the oven for 15 minutes, or until the base and crust is brown and the cheese is melted.

Amazingly enough, finally a main dish that my husband and I loved! Next week I will try a different flavour, it was also good to have used leftovers instead of spending money. Starting to feel a bit more confident on this challenge -Grassroots all the way!