Pizza: Award-Winning Pies for the Home Kitchen

by Pete Evans

40 recipes for a wide variety of pizzas, both classic and creative, made in both a countertop electric pizza maker and in a conventional oven.

Written by Australian celebrity chef Pete Evans, this book features more than 40 recipes for a wide variety of pizzas, from classic combinations, to modern flavors, to specialty and dessert pizzas. All of the recipes offer instructions for preparing the pizzas in the new countertop electric pizza maker as well as in a conventional oven. The book includes four basic doughs—including a gluten-free dough—which can be mixed and matched with a variety of sauces and toppings. Throughout the book are tips and tricks for creating flawless pizzas.


Pizza Basics
Working with the dough
Using the electric pizza maker
Making pizza in the home oven
Recipes
Pizza doughs
Pizza toppings and sauces
Classic pizzas
Modern pizzas
Special pizzas
Index

SAMPLE
Classic Pizzas
Margherita pizza
Pepperoni pizza with fresh mozzarella
Wild mushroom pizza with ham and ricotta
Chicken and basil pesto pizza
Modern Pizzas
Pizza with winter squash, gorgonzola, pine nuts and sweet & sour onions
Pizza with zucchini blossoms, mozzarella and oregano
Pizza with spicy shrimp, roasted peppers, and tomato salsa verde
Special Pizzas
Braised lamb shank and white bean calzone
Pete’s down under fish pie
Berry pizza with maple syrup and vanilla whipped cream

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

4 different pizza dough recipes and so many yummy toppings recipes. This is the kind of pizza we love. He recommends conventional oven cooking or electric pizza oven cooking, but we're testing these pizza gems via the BBQ.

[Fiona · Rating 4 out of 5]

**Won this through a Goodreads giveaway.**

First of all, all the pizzas in here look delicious. I wish there were more on how to cook a pizza without a pizza oven or a pizza stone, but that doesn't detract from this cookbook.
The recipes for pizza essentials are really useful and I love that there seems to be a photo for every pizza (some cookbooks don't include photos for all recipes, which can be kind of disappointing).

[Sherri]

This is what pizza should be.