Smiley face pizzas recipe
Created by The Tesco Recipes team
This pizza recipe couldn’t be simpler and is guaranteed to raise smiles around the table! Using a ready-made pizza base mix, knock up the dough, then leave it to rise while you prep the tomato sauce. Kids will love getting stuck in, adding their toppings and getting creative with their pizza faces. Serve with a mixed salad for an easy veggie boost.
See method- Serves 4
- Takes 50 mins plus rising
- 700 calories / serving
Ingredients
- 500g pack Tesco Finest pizza base mix
- ½ x 400g tin chopped tomatoes
- plain flour, for dusting and rolling out
- 300g pack baby plum tomatoes, 4 reserved, remainder quartered
- 210g ball mozzarella, drained and torn
- ½ yellow pepper, deseeded and sliced
- 1 tsp vegetable or rapeseed oil, plus extra for brushing
- 1 Little Gem, leaves separated
- ½ lemon, juiced
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- Energy
- 2955kJ 700.0kcal
- Fat
- 10g
- Saturates
- 4g
- Salt
- 2.7g
- Sugars
- 14g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 121.2gProtein 27.1gFibre 7.2g
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Method
- Make up the pizza base mix to pack instructions. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for 40 mins or until doubled in size.
- Meanwhile, tip the tinned tomatoes into a pan with a little seasoning and bubble over a medium heat for 5 mins. Mash with a fork and set aside.
- Preheat the oven to gas 9, 240°C, fan 220°C. Divide the dough into 4 equal pieces, then stretch and roll out each piece on a floured surface to a rough 20cm circle. Transfer the dough circles to sheets of baking paper.
- Divide the tomato sauce between the pizza bases, leaving a 1cm border. Cut the reserved tomatoes in half. Top the pizzas with the torn mozzarella, then arrange the tomato halves and peppers on top to look like faces. Brush the dough borders lightly with the extra oil.
- Slide the pizzas on their paper onto baking trays and bake, in batches if needed, for 15-20 mins until the pizza crust is set. Meanwhile, toss the lettuce and quartered tomatoes with the lemon juice and 1 tsp oil. Serve the salad alongside the pizzas.
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