Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Brie, smoked bacon and Cranberry Jam Pizza

I love store bought dough, mostly cause I can't make it but there is an endless number of uses for it from simple bread sticks for lunch boxes to Pizza's and this is our family favourite. 

1kg readymade Bread dough
1 packet cooked smoked bacon bits or rashers if you prefer (just fry them up in a pan)
1 triangle of Brie cheese (stick it in the freezer 30 min before cutting it so it's easy to slice)
1 tin of tomato puree 
1 Jar of Cranberry Jam or Fig Jam or Sour Cherry jam, I have used them all in this recipe and they all are delish.
Pizza spice

Break the dough into equal sized balls, tennis ball size.  Pull and stretch them to flatten them as much as you can, the base for this pizza is not a thin barely there base it's a nice thick soft crust.  make all your bases or as many as fit on 1 tray.
Using a brush cover the bases in tomato puree and sprinkle with pizza spice,
Put on the bacon be generous, no-one likes a selfish cook.
Slice Brie and put about 3/4 slices on Pizza
Bake it in the oven for around 10 min, then pull it out and put on about 2tsp of jam and stick it back in for 2 min to melt the jam a little.
Serve while warm but NOT hot.  Watch out for that Hot jam it's really HOT!!


My kids adore this Pizza because of the sweetness of the jam which really works well with the creaminess of the cheese and the smokiness of the bacon. It's quick and easy and delish, not pretty but oh so tasty. !!


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