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Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Pizza Fold-over


This may be something very simple, but need I remind you how well peas and cheese go together?
And besides that, its something else you can do with the pizza dough you made earlier.

This fold over only went in the oven in order to melt the cheese and warm the whole thing up together- the dough was already cooked.

I quite like this method of cooking pizza dough, it has the opportunity to give rise to all sorts of meals
, from wraps to fold-overs, containing any combination of ingredients. You could fill them with spicy Mexican food, or a pulled meat wrap with lots of tasty additions, or keep it vegetarian with a roast veg and feta fold over. Mmmmm...

This method of cooking the dough is very quick and actually quite pretty.. as the dough cooks in the hot pan, the upper side starts to form air pockets, which when flipped on to the hot metal of the pan, brown up, so you end up with a speckled bread:


To cook the dough like this, you need to roll it/stretch it out like you would a normal pizza base, but make sure it doesn't get too big for the pan. Your pan should be on the second highest heat possible- not enough to burn the dough almost instantly, but hot enough to make the patches that stick out fairly dark brown, fairly quickly. add about 1/2 tsp oil to the pan and wipe it over the pan's surface using a kitchen tissue. When the pan is up to temperature, add the dough, and watch the air pockets form. The first side will cook in under 2 mins, so just keep an eye on it, and turn it over once one side is done to let the other side speckle and brown.

Next, remove from the pan and on to a lined baking tray. Use a sharp knife to make a cut down the middle of the bread- don't cut right through it though, just score it, so it's easier to fold. On one half of the flat bread, add the filling of your choice, and then you can either fold it over and eat it straight away, or fold it over, and let the whole thing warm up together.

I stuffed mine with defrosted peas, and slices of cheddar cheese (although i would have used a more fancy kind of cheese if I'd had had it- like goats cheese or feta), folded it, and put it in the oven to let the cheese melt. When that was done, I added some fresh spinach leaves, and then nomed it down, because it was delicious. :)

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