Pizza in the microwave. How to cook?

Pizza is a kind of open pie, one of those culinary inventions that have spread all over the world. The fact is that because of the variety of fillings and the options for preparing the test, each person can choose for himself such a recipe that he will like most.

At home, it's easiest to cook pizza in a microwave oven. Advantages for this method of preparation is quite a lot. First, it takes a pizza to bake in the microwave much faster than in the oven. Secondly, the dough for this pizza does not require a long proofing, it can be cut almost immediately after the end of the batch. One nuance - the dough for baking in the microwave oven should be less steep, that is, the flour in it goes a little less than usual.

Variants of cooking such a dish as pizza in the microwave there is a huge amount. But in any case, first you should bake the base. To prepare the dough, you can use the following recipe:

Take 100 ml of warm water and stir in it half a spoonful of sugar and a teaspoon of yeast. Cover the dishes with a napkin and leave in a warm place for about ten minutes until the yeast rises. Then we sift the flour (150 grams) over a bowl, collect it with a slide and make a groove in the center, into which pour the raised yeast, olive oil and add a pinch of salt. Knead a loose kneading dough, and leave it for 10-15 minutes.

Now roll the dough to fit the shape. If there is no mold, then it is possible to disintegrate the dough on a flat plate, only make sure that the dishes are suitable for use in a microwave oven, that is, they do not have metallized parts.

Furnace cake at full capacity is needed for 2.5-3 minutes, depending on the type of oven.

Then remove the mold, lay out the filling on the basis and put it back in the oven for a couple of minutes. And which one to choose the filling? You can show imagination here. The simplest option - circles of tomatoes, sausage and cheese.

Pizza in the microwave can be cooked with seafood, mushrooms, vegetables, salami, cheese. In short, all the options can not be counted! You can endlessly invent your own fillings, or you can use the classic options.

For example, Neapolitan pizza in the microwave is prepared this way. In two spoons of olive oil, two finely chopped onions and a clove of garlic are fried. When preparing the filling in a microwave, the oil with vegetables should be heated for five minutes, mixing twice during this time. After that, get the dishes and add there 150 grams of tomato paste, mixing it with hot onions. On a ready basis for pizza we put the prepared tomato mass. Then we rub 250 grams of mazzarella on a grater and mix grated cheese with two teaspoons of dry oregano. Pour the cheese on the tomato mass, and on top we lay out 50 grams of anchovy fillets, preserved in oil. We put in the oven for 2-3 minutes.

Fans of seafood will like fish pizza in the microwave. The recipe for this pizza is similar, but for the preparation of the filling, it is necessary to chop two hundred grams of crab sticks and marinate them in apple cider vinegar for five minutes. Boil a small squid, peel it off, cut and add to crab sticks. Cut into boiled carrots circles, chop the greens and finely chop 50 grams of marinated mushrooms. Grind 100 grams of canned tuna and pour the fish with a spoonful of olive oil. Lubricate the prepared base for pizza sauce with horseradish, lay out tuna and chopped mushrooms. Again pour the filling with the sauce with horseradish and put a mixture of squid and crab sticks. From the top, spread the circles of carrots and sprinkle with herbs. Bake pizza in a microwave for five minutes.

And if you do not have time for cooking and want to cook pizza for breakfast? Then you need to use the recipe "Fast pizza in the microwave." For its preparation, ready-made pizza bases (sold in the store) or round pita bread are required, which need to be cut across. The base is smeared with ketchup or another sauce, cut sausage or sausages are laid out on it, and all this splendor is covered with cheese. Bake for 2-3 minutes until the cheese melts. This pizza is prepared literally for 5 minutes and can help out not only in the mornings, but also when the guests unexpectedly arrive.