Eat Them to Defeat Them with Phil Vickery's rainbow pizza!
Eat Them To Defeat Them, the multi award-winning campaign to encourage children to eat more vegetables, is back. So Phil has just the dish to wow your family - his colourful rainbow pizza is packed with veggies, beautiful colours and all that good stuff to keep your brain cells healthy.
Phil's rainbow pizza
Serves 2-4
Ingredients
For the pizza dough
500g ‘00’ flour
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp sugar
1 level tsp salt
7g fast acting dried yeast
250-300ml warm water
Semolina, to dust
For the pizza toppings
500g passata
2 tbsp ketchup
2 red peppers, cut into 1cm cubes, and sauteed in a little oil until soft
1 x 198g can sweetcorn, drained
2 courgettes, cut into 1 cm cubes, and sauteed in a little oil until soft
2 sweet pickled beetroot, cut into 1cm cubes
1 red onion, sliced and sauteed in a little oil until soft
150g grated mozzarella cheese
Method
1. To make the pizza dough, place the flour, oil, sugar and salt into a bowl and mix together.
2. Add the yeast and enough warm water to form a soft dough, then mix until the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl and is stretchy.
3. Tip onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes, then return the dough to the bowl and cover with cling film. Chill in the fridge for 24 - 48 hours.
4. Once ready to cook, preheat the oven to the maximum setting and place a large baking sheet, or pizza stone on one of the shelves.
5. Remove the dough from the fridge but do not knead, just fold in the edges. Cut into 2- 4 pieces and press and stretch out onto baking sheets, with a dusting of semolina, until nice and thin.
6. Mix together the passata and ketchup and spread thinly over the dough circles.
7. Arrange the peppers, corn, courgette, beetroot and sliced red onion in concentric circles, finishing with the onion in the centre.
8. Sprinkle over a little grated mozzarella and place the pizza and baking tray onto the preheated baking sheet or pizza stone in the oven.
9. Cook for about 15 minutes, or until the pizza base is cooked and crisp on the bottom and the topping has lightly browned.