Kids vs Adults Homemade Pizza Challenge

Kids vs Adults Homemade Pizza Challenge, Lay The Table

Im raiding Nick Coffers excellent My Daddy Cooks book for this weeks Recipe Shed theme because, well, its excellent. He claimed his quick and easy pizza was, well, quick and easy and would beat slower and more difficult pizza recipes. But how quick? How easy? Could it be childs play? And most important, would it be tastier?

There was only one way to find out and that was to recruit my team of mini-kitchen helpers to use the recipe to make pizzas for both them AND their hard-working mother (whose pizza recipe, made in a breadmaker) is legendary in our household.

Over to you, boys¦

Makes 4 medium-sized pizzas

300g self-raising flour
40g butter
180 ml milk

Kids vs Adults Homemade Pizza Challenge, Lay The Table

1. Pour the milk into a measuring jug

Kids vs Adults Homemade Pizza Challenge, Lay The Table

2. Weigh the flour

Kids vs Adults Homemade Pizza Challenge, Lay The Table

3. Weigh the butter

Kids vs Adults Homemade Pizza Challenge, Lay The Table

4. Put the flour and butter into a large bowl and gradually add the milk. Then using your hands, bring the mixture together into a soft pliable dough.

Kids vs Adults Homemade Pizza Challenge, Lay The Table

5. Break into even sized balls.

Kids vs Adults Homemade Pizza Challenge, Lay The Table

6. Dust your table with flour, then with a rolling pin, roll the balls out into discs, about 20cm in diameter and about 1-2cm thick.

7. Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4.

Kids vs Adults Homemade Pizza Challenge, Lay The Table

8. Add your toppings.

9. For the kids version, we used tomato passata, grated mozzarella, ham and baby plum tomatoes.

10. For the adults version, we used tomato passata, mozzarella ball broken into pieces, Parma ham, salami, speck, chopped mushrooms and finely sliced green chillies.

11. Cook for 12-15 mins, until the pizza base is crisp and brown.

Kids vs Adults Homemade Pizza Challenge, Lay The Table

KIDS VERDICT: Gone in 60 seconds flat. Dad, can we have this every night?

Kids vs Adults Homemade Pizza Challenge, Lay The Table

MUMS VERDICT: This is better than mine. Keith, youre in the spare room!

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