Spelt Pizza with Mozzarella, Bacon & Rocket

This is my first attempt at making a pizza base with spelt flour. I’d thought I’d make this up as I go along, why not eh? The pizza itself is very simple and fun to make, well, simple if you are lucky enough to own a good mixing machine (We have a Kenwood Major). If you don’t have a mixer, just mix the pizza dough on a large clean table using your hands, this is great fun to do together with kids!

Fresh Spelt Pizza with fresh Mozzarella, Cherry Tomatoes, Bacon & Rocket

• Makes 2 large ‘oven tray’ sized pizzas (more than enough for 2 adults and 2 kids)
• More photos below:

Spelt Pizza Base:

The pizza dough after proving...

The pizza dough, ready for proving!

• 1kg Spelt Flour (more about spelt here)
• 1 small tin Tomato Puree (approx. 150g)
• 50g Fresh Yeast
• 1 tsp Sugar
• 550ml Warm water
• 2 tbsps Salt
• 4 tbsp Olive Oil

Topping:

• 1 Jar of Pizza Sauce (approx 300g)
• 150g White Cheese (Norwegian Norvega or white Cheddar)
• 1 pack of Bacon (approx 170g) Chopped into chunks
• 2 packs fresh Mozzarrella (2x 125g) cut into “rough”cubes
• 2 packs Cherry Tomatoes (2x250g) Washed and cut in half
• 1 pack Rocket salad (Rich in Vitamin C and Potassium) Washed

Let’s start having fun:

1. Preheat your oven to 200c.
2. Place the flour and salt in your mixing bowl.
3. Dissolve the tomato puree, sugar and yeast in the warm water, use your fingers to make sure the yeast is completely dissolved. (The sugar helps to activate the yeast!)
4. Add the warm water mixture gradually to the flour mixing slowly and continuously.
5. Mix well on a low speed, using the dough hook (or your hands – good exercise!) until the dough is smooth but very slightly “sticky”.


Ready for the oven!

6. Cover the bowl with a clean dish-cloth and place in a warm part of your kitchen or house. I’ve heard of some people who put their doughs in the laundry room!
7. Leave the dough to rise “prove” for around 30-45 minutes.
8. Divide the dough in 2, roll out to fit a normal sized oven trays (approx 40cm diameter)
9. Place half the pizza sauce on each base and spread out evenly, make sure you spread out right to the edges so they don’t get dry!
10. Spread the white cheese evenly over the 2 pizzas.
11. Arrange the cherry tomatoes, bacon chunks and mozzarella evenly over the pizzas.
12. Cook in the oven for approximately 20 minutes, or until it looks done!
13. When ready, top with the Rocket salad, serve and enjoy