Puff pastry pizza is a delicious dish that does not take very long to prepare. You can choose the filling based on your own taste preferences.
Pizza is a delicious and hearty dish that is considered one of the staples in Italian cuisine. For the first time they began to bake it in Ancient Greece, and only then the recipe was borrowed by the Romans. Classic Italian pizza is prepared in special ovens. A cake is used as a base. Modern housewives have learned how to cook a dish at home with a variety of fillings and different types of dough. Yeast dough gives the finished cake splendor and lightness. If time is short, you can use ready-made puff pastry for cooking. It is very convenient and the pizza turns out to be incredibly tasty, but its calorie content remains high.
Puff pastry pizza with tomatoes and mozzarella
Classic pizza "Margarita" is prepared with tomatoes and mozzarella without adding sausage, meat or other meat ingredients. You can whip up a similar dish. This will require:
- 250-300 g puff pastry;
- 300 g mozzarella;
- some ketchup;
- 2 ripe tomatoes;
- basil;
- olive oil.
Cooking steps:
- Lightly roll the puff pastry with a rolling pin and put on a baking sheet, forming low sides. To prevent it from sticking to the surface, you can first line the baking sheet with parchment paper. When using frozen dough, you must first defrost it naturally or in the microwave.
- Use a fork to puncture the surface of the dough so that it does not rise too much when baking the pizza. Lubricate the surface with ketchup. You can also use your own tomato sauce, but for this you need to wipe the tomatoes through a sieve and boil the puree in advance.
- Remove the hard parts from the tomatoes in the region of the stalk, cut into thin slices. Cut the mozzarella into thin slices. Place tomato circles on the dough and cover with mozzarella slices.
- Rinse the basil. If the leaves are large, tear them with your hands, and then spread them over the surface of the pizza. Sprinkle olive oil on the dish. Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake the pizza at 180 ° C for about 15 minutes. Serve hot pizza to the table. To cut it into portions, it is convenient to use a special device.
Instead of fresh basil, you can use dried seasoning in this recipe. You can also replace it with a dried mixture of Provencal herbs.
Puff pastry pizza with mushrooms and chicken
A very successful pizza is obtained if you bake it with chicken and mushrooms. To prepare the dish you will need:
- 250-300 g puff pastry;
- 1 large chicken breast;
- 150-200 g of mushrooms (it is better to choose champignons);
- 200 g of cheese;
- 1 large tomato;
- 1 onion;
- a little vegetable oil;
- light mayonnaise;
- sour cream.
Cooking steps:
- Defrost the puff pastry and roll out with a rolling pin. Place it on a baking sheet or on the bottom of a special pizza dish. Chop the dough with a fork and brush with ketchup. It is better to choose a sauce with a not very pungent taste and without extraneous aromatic additives. The taste of the dish will turn out to be even more interesting if you grease the base with white sauce instead of ketchup. To prepare it, you need to mix sour cream with mayonnaise in a 1: 1 ratio.
- Rinse the chicken breast, dry it slightly and fry in vegetable oil for 1-2 minutes on each side. It is necessary that it only slightly brown, but inside it remains juicy. Cool the breast and cut into small cubes.
- Peel and chop the mushrooms coarsely enough. It is better to use champignons. Each mushroom can be cut lengthwise into thin slices. Peel the onion and cut into thin half rings. Grate cheese. Cut the large and fleshy tomato into thin circles.
- In the same frying pan in which the chicken was fried, you can fry the mushrooms and onions. Fry them in a minimum amount of oil for 2-3 minutes with constant stirring.
- Put prepared chicken pieces on the base, and then onion with mushrooms and sprinkle with grated cheese. You can also add dried Provencal herbs, but very little so as not to interrupt the rich taste of the dish.
- Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake the pizza at 180 ° C for about 15 minutes.
Pizza with zucchini and salami
Zucchini and salami will give the Italian pie an unforgettable taste. To prepare delicious and original pizza you will need:
- 300-400 g of puff pastry;
- 1 small zucchini;
- 150 g salami;
- large tomato;
- a little tomato sauce;
- a clove of garlic;
- onion;
- 150-200 g mozzarella cheese;
- thyme (fresh leaves);
- olive oil.
Cooking steps:
- Defrost the puff pastry and gently roll out. If you want to make your pizza more satisfying, you can use not one, but two packages of ready-made dough. Place the rolled layer on a baking sheet or in a pizza dish. It is very convenient to use the silicone round shape. The dough does not stick to it and there are no problems with transferring the finished cake from the mold to the plate.
- Rinse the zucchini and cut into thin circles. To make pizza, you need to choose small fruits without seeds. Remove the salami from the shell and cut into slices thinly. Cut the mozzarella into thin slices. Cut the onion into thin rings. Cut the tomatoes into circles.
- Chop the puff pastry base with a fork and brush with tomato sauce. Place zucchini, onion rings, tomatoes, salami and mozzarella in even layers. You can lay out the ingredients on top of each other or in rows, like shingles. Sprinkle pizza with chopped thyme leaves. Dry seasoning can also be used.
- Pass the garlic clove through a press and mix with olive oil. Sprinkle the mixture over the pizza. Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake the pizza at 180 ° C for about 15 minutes.
Pizza with bacon on puff pastry
To make pizza with bacon you will need:
- 300 g puff pastry;
- 250 g bacon;
- 250 g of hard cheese;
- large tomato;
- onion;
- oregano, dried thyme;
- some tomato sauce.
Cooking steps:
- Defrost the puff pastry and roll out. Put the layer on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and form small sides. Pierce the dough with a fork and brush with tomato sauce.
- Cut the bacon into thin slices. Cut the tomato into thin circles. Peel the onion and cut into thin rings.
- Place bacon slices, onion rings, tomato slices on top of the dough and sprinkle with dried seasoning. You can chop fresh herbs (oregano, basil) and sprinkle on the pizza. Sprinkle the surface with olive oil, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake the pizza at 180 ° C for about 15 minutes.
Pizza with canned tuna and green onions
To make a delicious canned tuna pizza, you will need:
- 300 g puff pastry;
- a jar of canned tuna;
- olive oil;
- small onion;
- 2-3 tbsp corn;
- 200 g of hard cheese;
- half a bunch of green onions.
Cooking steps:
- Roll out the defrosted puff pastry with a rolling pin and put on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper or in a silicone mold. Chop the dough with a fork, brush with olive oil. You can add a mixture of Provencal dry herbs to the oil.
- Peel the onion and cut into thin rings. Open a can of tuna, drain the liquid and mash the contents with a fork or cut into small pieces.
- Put pieces of canned tuna, onion rings on puff pastry. Sprinkle the pizza with canned corn kernels, chopped green onions. Sprinkle grated cheese over the surface of the pie. Bake the pizza at 180 ° C for about 15 minutes.
Additionally, you can serve the pizza with an olive oil-based sauce. Aromatic spices, a little hot pepper and garlic, passed through a press, should be added to the oil.
