The pizzas bought from the shop are usually too flat. Those thin flat things with pepperoni sparsley spread on them is not a real pizza in my opinion. So here's a recipe for bigger ones I've made sometimes.


Ingredients:

Thick pizza base
Tomato paste, or, I use pasta sauce, e.g. garlic and red-wine.
1 onion, chopped.
1 egg, scrambled.
garlic, eg 1 clove crushed. Depends if you like vampires or not.
Jar of sun-dried tomatos.
Jar of olives, I prefer black, sliced.
Lots of mushrooms, sliced.
Can of chopped pineapple
1 capsicum (i.e. bell pepper)
Mozarella cheese, a whole lot, shredded.
Beef mince (ground beef), cooked.
Mixed herbs.

Order of construction:

Pre-made pizza base. I usually put it on a tray with aluminium foil underneath which has been coated lightly with olive oil. This gives the pizza base a nice golden crust underneath and helps stop the foil sticking.
Then spread tomato paste on the pizza base.
Crushed garlic goes next.
Then beef mince (ground beef) that you already cooked.
Then sprinkle mixed herbs over it.
Then onion.
Then scrambled egg.
Then a layer of cheese.
Then capsicum (bell pepper).
Then pineapple.
Then another layer of cheese.
Then alternate layers of mushrooms and sun-dried tomatos and olives and pineapple.
Then cover the whole thing with cheese.
That's how I do it, but it's open to experimentation obviously. I've done it with chicken and sweet chilli sauce as alternative to beef mince and tomato.
I make them up to 5.5 inches tall. It's the mushrooms that give it the height. Proper layering of ingredients and cheese will make sure it doesn't fall over.
Will take a while to cook in the oven I find at about 200 deg C (400 F), but you'd have to figure out the temperatures for yourself. Maybe 1 or 2 hours.
Pictures are attached to get the idea.

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We need to see a picture of the finished product just before you take that first colossal bite.

I'm sorry I just realised don't have one I can find, these are old pictures, I actually haven't made this in about 1 or 2 years. Basically it's about half the height when the mushrooms shrink, the cheese on top is browned and melted and well the cheese melts and everything comes together nicely. You will have a problem cutting it. I do it in quarters instead of the usual way pizza is cut. Pizza cutters won't really work, just a large knife. And may require peeling the foil off the bottom if it sticks. Maybe there's a better way of doing it, but that's half the fun.

WOW! Not sure if I find that impressive or scary....lol I am guessing you won't be hungry after though....looks filling.

MMMMMM.. good job! Now that's MY kind of pizza (minus the pineapple). Love it!!!

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I'd eat

WOW, now I know I have a big mouth. But even my mouth isn't that big.. lol

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Whoaaa nice!!! lol, love how you show pictures haha!

Cann't say I ever saw a pizza like that before. It looks positively deliicouse! Has everything I like. Best part is the emphasis on the topings instead of the base. Yea, I am going to try it.

COWABONGA!!!

Hahahahahaha, Turtles have such big mouths, shoving this in won't be a prob.

Yummy Yummy!

That is one MASSIVE pizza! I know a couple guys who wouldn't have a problem finishing off one of those.

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wooooooah woaaaaah does anyone see a problem with this... did you READ the ingredients... it has scrambled eggs in it!! hahaha ewwww

i bet my 9 10 11 yera old brotehrs can eat all that they are skinny kids

Of course, Australians put egg on everything, hamburgers etc, makes it aussie. Just like putting pinapple on a pizza makes it hawaiin.

Putting pineapple on pizza makes it gross.

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Putting eggs on pizza makes it disgusting. Anything other than putting bacon and onion on pizza is a big no

That looks fantastic!! Yummmmm! I love pizza especially big stuff and thick crust.

My mom likes bell pepper on pizza.

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That's not a real pizza.