Recipes from Shane and Geri

Hot Salami Pizza

Enough sauce for 4 individual pizzas.

Ingredients for Sauce

• 400 g sugo
• Pinch of dried oregano
• Pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper

Ingredients for Topping

For 1 personal pizza

• 3 tbs finely chopped flat leaf parsley
• 1/3 cup finely grated mozzarella
• 45 g thinly sliced hot salami
• 4 cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1/2 (about 125 g) buffalo mozzarella
• 6 large mint leaves

Method

1. Tip sugo in pan, add oregano, salt and pepper and cook for 10 minutes until sauce thickens.
2. Set aside to cool.
3. Place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat the oven and stone to 250oC fan forced.
4. Place dough onto the very hot pizza stone.
5. Spoon over about 2 tbs of pizza sauce then sprinkle with parsley and mozzarella.
6. Top with salami and cherry tomatoes.
7. Cook for 6-8 minutes or until base is golden and crisp.
8. Tear the buffalo mozzarella and scatter over the pizza.
9. Top with mint leaves and serve.

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