Stone-Ground Pizza with Blistered Tomatoes, Parma Ham, Basil and Mozzarella
Delicious pizza recipe using the Kiln pizza oven.
I recently made this pizza live on the Expresso Morning Show (‘you’re feel-good breakfast show’), which was a lot more difficult than cooking in the comfort of my home, let me tell you! Pizza is always a win though, and the smells that went through the tv studio was making everyone’s mouth water. Try out the recipe below at home. If you don’t have a Kiln pizza oven, you can also use a normal oven, on 180 degrees for 12-15 minutes.
Ingredients to make 2 Pizzas
2 X Stone Ground pizza bases
All Gold Tomato SaucE
250 g Exotic tomato mix
20 g Fresh Basil
20 g Parma Ham
150 g Pearl mozzarella balls
How to Prepare the Pizzas
Preheat the Kiln Pizza Oven for 20 minutes with all burners on full.
Pan-Fry the exotic tomato mix.
Place base (without toppoings) in the Kiln pizza oven for 3 minutes and remove.
Smear a few table spoons of All Gold tomato sauce over the base. Add the pan-fried exotic tomatoes, parma ham and mozzarella balls and cook on low heat for 5 minutes.
Lastly, athe basil and serve!
This recipe was also published on the Expresso show website.
If you want to know what it was like to cook live on the Expresso Morning Show, I wrote a blog post about it!
About Shawn Godfrey
Photo credit: Niki M Photography
Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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