Except beef, I also chose onion and French bean as the vegetable part.
Steak part:
Season steak with salt and pepper. Heat a pan. Drizzle a little oil. Place steak into hot pan. Fry for around 3 mins or till golden brown. Then flip the steak over. Add in thyme and garlic. Cut in a butter chunk. Scoop butter with a spoon and pour over steak. When both sides are brown, let the steak stand to fry the edge.
Then let steak rest in a plate.
1. Preheat oven to 220 degree C.
2. Brush pizza dough with tomato sauce. Then spread mozzarella cheese over it.
3. Into oven for 6 mins.
4. Scatter onion and French beans (bleached for 2 mins in hot water) over pizza dough. Into the oven for another 2 mins.
5. Cut steak into slices. Place steak over vegetables.
Last time, when my sister and her boyfriend came to visit us, we went an Italian restaurant for dinner. The restaurant name is Saizeriya. The restaurant claims to serve fusion food of Japanese and Italian. Its rating is 4.7, which is very high on Google and many comments are positive. And the price is very reasonable and affordable. The most important thing is food there is very nice. We tried its pizza, spaghetti, soup, escargot, and ravioli. All are very nice.
There is one special pizza, Bismarck pizza. We tried it for the first time. Pizza looks not very hard to make, since I can tell the main ingredients are pizza dough, cheese, bacon, spinach and egg. Yes! An egg in the middle, that’s why it’s special and also why my husband loves it. Egg is the key part. Although I don’t know exactly how to cook it, I tried to copy the one we had in the restaurant today.
I made it in a very simple way. Brush pizza dough with a little tomato sauce. Then sprinkle mozzarella cheese. ( I just tore the mozzarella ball with my hand.)
Cut 2 strips streaky bacon and spread them over pizza dough and make a circle in the middle. That’s the spot where I crack an egg. Sprinkle a little black pepper on the top.
Into the oven for 13-15 mins.
While pizza was baking. I bleach several stalks of spinach in water for 30 seconds. Then soaked them in cold water. Squeeze them very hard to let the water out.
In the last 3 mins, spread cooked spinach over the pizza.
And the Bismarck pizza is done with a beautiful egg in the middle.
2. Prepare a whole boneless chicken leg. Cut it into small chunks.
3. Heat a pan. Add in a little oil. Sear the chicken till brownish.
4. Add in 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, 1/2 tablespoon mirin (Japanese sweet cooking wine), 1/2 tablespoon dark soy sauce, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tablespoon honey. Mix chicken well with sauce.
5. Pour in 1 cup hot water. Simmer chicken for 10 mins.
6. Set chicken aside. Turn to high heat. Reduce the sauce till very thick. You can add in a little starch water to help. The. The teriyaki sauce is done.
7. Brush pizza dough with teriyaki sauce. Sprinkle cheese. Then chicken and vegetable. At last another layer of cheese.
8. Into 200 degree C oven for 10 mins or till cheese melts.
1. Wash 1 cup cherry tomatoes in water. Cut a cross at the bottom of each tomato.
2. Soak tomatoes in boiling water for a little while to make it easy to peel them.
3. Heat a sauce pan. Add in 2 tsp olive oil. When the oil heated, add in 2 cloves chopped garlic. Sauté till aromatic.
4. Add in all the peeled cherry tomatoes. Stir fry and press with spatula or a spoon. It’s fine to have some tomato lumps. That actually makes pizza taste better.
5. Add in 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp dried herbs, 1 tsp sugar and 1 tablespoon tomato sauce. Mix all the ingredients well and set aside to cool down.
I found a very inspiring video on YouTube. And this enthusiastic Italian cook showed everybody how he made a perfect pizza. I just followed his guide.
For the pizza dough:
1 1/2 cup bread flour
1/2 cup warm water (more or less due to different flour)
3 g instant yeast
1 tsp salt.
Mix flour and salt in a bowl. Dissolve yeast in warm water. Pour yeast water into flour. Knead into a dough. If the flour is too sticky, then add more flour. Fold the dough several times. Then place it in a bowl, cover with plastic and let it rise till 2 times big.
Preheat oven to 220 degree C.
Press the dough into a big thin pizza dough. Brush pizza sauce. Sprinkle a little salt. Drizzle olive oil. Grate Parmesan cheese. Then sprinkle mozzarella cheese (I’m always very generous with mozzarella cheese, that’s why my pizza always looks white on the surface. 🙂 ), and basil leaves. Drizzle a little olive oil again.
Into the oven and bake for 7 mins.
The whole kitchen is full of sweet fragrance . It smells so so good.
So far, this is the best pizza I’ve ever cooked. It tastes so so good.
Very soft, and cheesy. Tomato sauce I made has a special texture and adds more flavor to the pizza. Every ingredient works so well.
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