Meatball Pizza
Making your own pizza dough is just so satisfying, and, should you have a breadmaker on hand, its even easier. You can flavour it with cheese and herbs. You can stuff the crust, make mini pizzas or pizzas shaped like dinosaurs. The possibilities are endless. This delicious meatball pizza recipe can be made as tiny bites for a party or one huge pizza to feed a tribe.
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IngredientsMeatballs
Pizza dough
Sauce
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Method |
Energy kJ (kcal) | 3793 (906) |
Protein (g) | 60.9 |
Fat (g) | 21.9 |
Saturated (g)
|
8.9 |
Carbohydrate (g) | 107.7 |
Sugars (g)
|
4.7 |
Sodium (mg) | 1716 |
Iron (mg) | 13.2 |
Zinc (mg) | 8.8 |
Vitamin B12 (ug) | 1.8 |
Vitamin D (ug) | N/A |
Selenium (ug) | 23.7 |
When you are satisfied that dough is looking good, oil a clean bowl, add dough, cover with a tea towel and set aside to rise in a warm place. It should take about 30 minutes to an hour, depending on room temperature.
Make the sauce and meatball topping while you are waiting for the dough to rise. Blend mince, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper and beaten egg until well combined. Form a teaspoon of mixture into a ball, set aside and repeat until all used up.
For the sauce, simply blend tomato paste with garlic, dried herbs, black pepper and salt.
To make mini pizzas, break off small pieces of dough, roll each into a ball and then flatten gently with your fingers to the desired size and thickness. If making one large pizza dust a baking tray with flour and polenta if you have it (for a crusty bottom). Place dough in centre of tray and gently stretch and press into the desired shape and thickness. Cover your bases with the tomato sauce. Dot with meatballs and then sprinkle generously with mozzarella.
Bake in a hot oven at around 200 °C until the cheese is golden brown and the meatballs are cooked through (around 30 minutes).