Homemade Bread - Ciabatta Bread Recipe

Homemade ciabatta bread is delicious. Light textured, crunchy-crusted and gobbled up before it has chance to go stale.

But it's tricky to get right. There are a few potential stumbling blocks in the process.

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Don't let that put you off, though. I'm here to help.

Homemade Bread - Ciabatta Bread Recipe

This ciabatta recipe gives you all the insight you need to make your own, homemade ciabatta and get it right, first time.

So, what is ciabatta?

Ciabatta (Italian for 'slipper') is a square, flattish bread, designed to be loaded with toppings. Usually made with white flour, it has an open texture, with large air-bubbles.

The dough is extra-fermented, for a slightly sour flavour and is often coated in cornmeal (although in this recipe I substitute semolina because it's easier to obtain) to make the crust extra crunchy.

It's tricky but I'll show you how.

It's tricky to make because of the extra fermentation needed to achieve the authentic ciabatta flavour. Also, it is awkward to work with the wet dough necessary to achieve the open texture. At the same time, you want the crust to be crunchy without letting the thin bread become too dry. A lot to think about, but perfectly easy to achieve, when you know how.

Here goes...

Ciabatta Recipe

You will need:
250g plain flour
3g dried instant yeast
A large pinch salt
Approximately 180ml hand-hot water to mix
Semolina to coat (optional)

Mix your dough well in advance. I suggest doing this the night before you want to eat the bread.

1. Combine the flour and instant yeast in a large bowl.

2. Add the water, little by little, until you have made a slack dough.

3. Leave the dough to ferment overnight. The longer you ferment the dough, the sourer the bread will taste. If you prefer a milder flavour, shorten this stage to an hour.

4. When you return to the dough, mix in the salt. I usually do this by hand as it's easier to squeeze and knead the dough, rather than using a spoon.

5. Tip the dough onto a floured surface and knead for a few minutes, until your dough has a smooth, stretchy texture. It should still be quite wet, which makes it tricky to handle. It will stick to the work surface and to your hands. Try not to add too much extra flour as you need the wetness in order to achieve the characteristic open-crumb texture.

6. Divide your dough into four pieces. Stretch each piece to a long, thin strip and fold it into three. The folding helps to incorporate extra air into the dough, for that all-important texture. Try to not squash the air out of the dough at this stage. Repeat the stretch and fold process if necessary, to create an oblong bread about 3cm thick.

7. Gently coat the bread in semolina and place it on a greased baking tray.

8. Leave it to rise again for about half an hour before baking at 200oC for 20 minutes.

Now, to achieve that crunchy crust

There is one further stage to this process.

Use a (clean) plant mister to lightly spray the bread with water before you put it in the oven. Repeat this spraying process a couple of times in the first few minutes of baking.

Your bread is cooked when it can be lifted off the tray easily and sounds hollow when you knock on its bottom.

Serve immediately - ciabatta doesn't keep well, which is another good reason to bake it yourself.

Homemade Bread - Ciabatta Bread Recipe

There are more bread recipes on my site, including my guide to Fresh Bread In 20 Minutes which is the quickest way I know to bake homemade bread for lunch.

Vegetable Recipes Your Kids Will Beg For

Vegetables are a great way to provide the necessary vitamins and minerals to your family. However, how many times have you told your children to eat their vegetables? Probably a lot.

For some reason, children have an aversion to vegetables. They will cry and sit for hours before you finally give in and send them from the table.

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Vegetables do not always have to be the enemy. The key is to find a creative way to prepare them and your family will become vegetable lovers rather than vegetable haters!

Vegetable Recipes Your Kids Will Beg For

Do you remember when you were a child and your mother dropped a soggy green lump of cabbage on your plate. Did you want to eat it? Almost certainly not.

There are various ways to encourage your children to eat their vegetables. You might even need to trick them! Broccoli is an example of a vegetable, which is high in vitamin and mineral content, and there are plenty of ways to prepare it. Here are some tips:

Try it raw. Leave a plate of raw broccoli in bite-size pieces in the refrigerator for your children as a snack. Offer some salad dressing so they can dip it and this is often a hit. Leave the tips of the broccoli on the plate and encourage your child to eat them. You can even make a creative game of this. Grilled vegetable recipes are not the only way to serve healthy vegetables.

If all else fails, bribery often works. Tell your child that they will get a special treat if they finish their vegetables. Make sure you have a treat for them afterwards.

Use cheese. Cheese and broccoli go very well together. If you pour a cheese sauce over the broccoli, you are adding texture and changing the flavor. You might find your children eat the broccoli in cheese before whatever else you have served with it.

Lasagna is delicious with broccoli added. Smothering it in cheese can add to the flavor and disguise the broccoli. Children will be too busy enjoying the cheesy flavor to bother picking out the bits of broccoli. Vegetable pizza is another way of sneaking in broccoli. Nearly all kids love pizza so a healthy vegetable pizza recipe will produce something they associate with fun rather than veggies.

Chop it up - if all else fails, pre cook the broccoli and let it cool a little and put it in a food processor. Chop it up until it is not recognizable and add it to whatever dish you are cooking. Your children will not even know it is there.

Shakes - this might sound weird but it works. Make a milkshake with milk, ice cream, and chocolate syrup. Add some broccoli to the shake (make sure the kids aren't watching!) and blend it some more. As long as you use a chunky type of ice cream, your kids will not realize the broccoli is there and hopefully they will drink the shake too fast to notice any stray green bits!

Vegetables are high in essential nutrients, especially for growing kids, so it is great that there are so many ways to get them to eat their veggies!

Vegetable Recipes Your Kids Will Beg For

Believe vegetable pizza recipe have to be difficult then you need to have some fresh off the barbecue grill! While your at it why not have some of our barbecue grilled vegetable recipes.

You can often find me in the kitchen cooking it is a true love of mine and I love experimenting with new and wonderful taste. I like to share these with visitors to my wife's websites on cooking. Why not try one of their recipes like Baked Dijon Salmon just one of the recipes we like sharing with our four young sons.

Christmas Dinner Traditions and Dessert Ideas

Christmas is my family's favorite time of year. We have many Christmas traditions that we've developed over the years.  One is that each year one of us daughters (mother and sister-in-laws) is responsible for a part of the dinner.  My favorite part to make is the Christmas desserts.

Our family is large, there are five sisters, four brothers and both parents still living. We also have a lot of wives, husbands, nieces and nephews mixed in. When we get together there are twenty seven people.  Each year one of us cooks for a different segment. We put the dinner segments in a hat. After dinner, after all the dishes are done and we're relaxing we choose what our dishes will be for the next year. The menu is broken up into appetizers, before and after dinner drinks (for the adults), meat, stuffing/potatoes (starch), vegetables, rolls, desserts. Two people are responsible for meat, two for stuffing/potatoes and two for vegetables. One for appetizers, one for before and after dinner drinks and one for desserts. And, now that there are ten of us every year one lucky girl gets a get out of jail free card, which means she doesn't have to cook the next year!

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As I said earlier Christmas dessert is my favorite. I start cooking about a week in advance. I know everybody's favorites, and like to add a few new things.  I like to make lots of different types of desserts for the family. One of my favorites is Black Bottom Cup Cakes. Another is Greek Almond Cookies. These are super simple. Another favorite is definitely a Red Velvet Cake with Butter Cream Icing. It's my Grandmother's recipe and the family loves it. The Red Velvet Cake is the one thing we're guaranteed to have every year, regardless of who is assigned dessert duty.

Christmas Dinner Traditions and Dessert Ideas

I also make a Cinnamon Crumb Cake, a Chocolate Truffle with Raspberry Sauce and a Louisiana Roasted Pecan Pie.  All of these things make quite an impressive looking Christmas dessert buffet and everyone is able to find something that they really like.

Over the years we girls have shared recipes between us.  We all love cooking, us sisters were all raised to enjoy being in the kitchen.  When a new item is introduced to the table there is also a menu card for each sister for that new item.  When I added Greek Almond Cookies to the dessert table last year everyone was amazed how easy the recipe is. I got it from an actual Greek friend, Valerie.  The Cinnamon Crumb Cake is also easy to make and goes really well with a cup of coffee after dinner.

One year when my sister-in-law picked the Christmas dessert portion of our meal I gave her a lot of advice on recipes as she really isn't comfortable baking. I went to her home two days before Christmas and helped her make the traditional Red Velvet Cake. She did it really well and is now a pro!

Perhaps if you have a large family you can do something like our family does. We all enjoy our Christmas cooking tradition.

Christmas Dinner Traditions and Dessert Ideas

Catherine Olivia has some tasty and easy Christmas dessert ideas and recipes
at http://www.greenbeansnmore.com

The Best Pizza Sauce

A great pizza dough does not necessarily lead to the best pizza. The quality and freshness of your pizza toppings is important, as well as the taste of your pizza sauce. A great tasting pizza is one that balances these elements.

The pizza sauce is important in pizza making, because it is that which gives the whole dish its unifying flavor. It ties everything together, so to speak. The best pizza sauce is simply a sauce that compliments your pizza toppings and your pizza crust to create a delicious, unifying taste.

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Making a great pizza sauce takes a little bit of time and practice, but it is a skill that anyone can learn with a little patience and practice. Start with a simple, basic pizza sauce recipe and increase the number of ingredients and complexity as you develop your skills, and learn what works and what doesn't.

The Best Pizza Sauce

It All Begins with Tomatoes

The most common type of pizza sauce is a tomato based sauce. Using fresh, ripe, locally grown tomatoes is important for a great tasting sauce. Summer is the best time of year to purchase tomatoes, but often you can find locally Now for the best tomato-based sauce, use fresh tomatoes that you have grown yourself. You should avoid supermarket-bought, fresh tomatoes because these are probably ripened through an artificial chemical process. The best type of tomatoes for pizza sauce making is the plum variety.

To prepare your tomatoes, you should remove the seeds and cut these into small chunks. Use a blender to reduce fresh tomato into paste. Add some water and grind well to ensure uniform consistency and texture. However there's nothing wrong with a chunky tomato sauce if you prefer this type of sauce; as long as the pieces are more or less similar in size, then cooking problems should not arise.

Once you have your tomato base, evaluate its thickness. The best tomato base is a thick one. If you have added too much water during the grinding stage, check now if the sauce is not too thin. Thin pizza sauce will run off and will merely make the dough soggy if so. If you have made an excessively thin tomato base, you should let the lot simmer on low heat to let some of the water to evaporate. Beware that heating your tomato base to get rid of excess water will affect the flavor of your tomato base.

If you don't have your own tomato patch, then just use the canned stuff. It is best to use slightly thick tomato sauce - it is thick, has enough moisture level yet hasn't undergone as much heating (if at all) as tomato concentrate products. On the other hand, you can buy canned tomatoes that haven't been converted to sauce or paste yet. You can use your blender to prepare your tomato base, in this case, adding as much water as you need to achieve desired glueyness.

Then Come the Pizza Sauce Flavorings and Spices

After preparing your tomato base, you should prepare a large, non-stick flat pan for cooking the sauce. To start with, heat some olive oil. Use the extra virgin variety if you want a stronger olive taste; this is especially applicable if you are using olives on your pizza toppings as the olive oil in the sauce will reinforce the flavor of one of the toppings. After heating the oil, you should melt some butter in it.

After heating oil and melting butter, you should start sauteing the usual ingredients: onions and garlic. Mince the onions and garlic if you want the best possible flavor. You can even transform your garlic into garlic paste then increase the amount of garlic used if you want a distinctly garlicky taste. When the garlic is mildly brown and the onion transparent, pour in the tomato based that you have made according to the above instructions. Mix everything but don't take too long. After a few seconds of adding and stirring the tomato, onion and garlic mixture, you should add salt, pepper (crushed pepper works best for a hotter pizza sauce recipe) and when nearly cooked, all the other spices.

The first ingredient that comes to mind is salt. Another is sugar. The first one is definitely a requirement while the second one is optional; people who love a sweet-tasting tomato pizza sauce can add sugar.

Italian style pizza naturally has basil and oregano. If you are using the fresh leaves, chop them into small pieces. If you are using dried herbs, crush them first using your fingers or a mortar and pestle assembly to release trapped flavors. Add the herbs and spices during the last few minutes of simmering.

The pizza spices used varies. If you want tasty pizza sauce, use fennel seeds and laurel leaves. If you want an even stronger flavor, use lots of parsley or you can use the laurel bark; however, be sure to remove the laurel bark and the laurel leaves after cooking the pizza. If you want a spicy pizza sauce, however, add some cayenne pepper or some paprika to your pizza sauce mixture.

Other pizza sauce ingredients are cheese, beef stock (or the instant variety if you have no time to make beef stock), and mushrooms. Basalmic vinegar and alcoholic beverages, moreover, are great for imparting a slightly piquant taste to your sauce. The same thing can be achieved with pure fruit juice such as lemon juice.

Do not forget that you have the option of adding as many ingredients and spices to your pizza sauce. It's all a matter of taste, anyway. And here's one final tip: if you like a dish so much - say creamy carbonara pasta - try recreating the sauce and using it on your pizza. If it doesn't work, then use it the way it has always been used (e.g. prepare some pasta to use with your carbonara sauce).

The Best Pizza Sauce

Sean Lannin

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How to Make a Seafood Pizza

Seafood pizza is really flavorful and if you are a fan of delicious homemade pizza and you also love fish and seafood, why not combine both to make a seafood pizza recipe? There are lots of types of fish and seafood you can use to make your dream pizza, including shrimp, anchovies, tuna, mussels, squid, and crab.

You might like to stick to one or two seafood toppings or you might want to mix and match. If you want to use only one kind of seafood, perhaps shrimp, or tuna, you can use other pizza toppings to complement the taste, such as cheese, pineapple, bell peppers, fresh herbs, and garlic.

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Seafood does not have a long cooking time and the easiest way to make a seafood pizza is to cook the fish first, then arrange it on the pizza and warm the pizza through. If you are using a readymade pizza crust, you will only need to bake the pizza until the toppings are hot anyway. Finely chopped vegetables will cook quickly and if you are using canned fish like crab or tuna, it only needs to warm through.

How to Make a Seafood Pizza

Recipe for Easy Seafood Pizza

This delicious recipe combines shrimp, crab, and tuna with olives, pineapple, mushrooms and more for a mouthwatering pizza recipe. This is such an easy pizza to make and the fact that you are using a readymade pizza crust and ingredients, which do not have to be cooked before you bake the pizza means that it should only take about twenty minutes to make from start to finish.

Feel free to modify the ingredients. You might like to add onion, fresh herbs, tomatoes or red bell pepper to this pizza to make it more fragrant, colorful, and delicious. The garlic oil makes a wonderful sauce.

Sometimes tomato pizza sauces can be very strong but it is nice to keep this one simple so the delicious fish and seafood taste shines through. This delicious pizza serves four to six people.

What you will need:

• 12 inch readymade pizza crust
• 4 oz sliced black olives
• 1/2 cup crushed pineapple
• 6 sliced button mushrooms
• 1 cup grated cheddar
• 1 cup grated mozzarella
• 3/4 cup flaked, canned crab meat
• 1/2 cup flaked, canned tuna
• 1/4 cup canned shrimp
• 1/4 cup diced green bell pepper
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 2 minced cloves garlic

How to make it:
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Stir together the garlic and olive oil. If you have a food processor, you can puree the peeled garlic cloves and oil in it instead. Spread the garlic oil evenly over the pizza crust.

Arrange the olives, pineapple, mushrooms, crab, tuna, shrimp, and green bell pepper on the pizza and sprinkle the cheese over the top. Bake on a pizza stone or greased pizza pan for about twelve minutes or until the cheese is bubbly. Serve hot.

How to Make a Seafood Pizza

If you are looking for gourmet pizza recipe ideas, what about making a tasty seafood pizza recipe? Fish and seafood is fantastic on pizza. If you fancy something sweet instead, a sugar cookie fruit pizza recipe might appeal to you.

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Home Made Pizza Sauce Recipe From Scratch

The best pizza sauce recipe is going to feature whole, natural ingredients that you cook in your own kitchen. By selecting organic ingredients and incorporating them into your sauce at home, you insure that you've made a tasty product that's healthy. And by making it from scratch, you've proven yourself as an awesome cook! Today, we're going to earn you some bragging rights--that sauce? It's not coming out of a can. We took tomatoes and made rich, spreadable, pizza sauce gold. Are you excited? Because I'm excited.

Here's what you're going to need:

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About 12 plum tomatoes, seeded, skinned, and pureed in a food processor
1 white onion, chopped fine
2 tablespoons of olive oil
2 tablespoons garlic

Home Made Pizza Sauce Recipe From Scratch

2 tablespoons sugar
1 tbsp salt
1/2 tablespoon red pepper
2 tablespoons minced garlic

Heat your oil in an 8 quart pan. Add your onions--we want to sweat them until they are transparent. This should take about six minutes. Then, add your garlic. By now, your kitchen should be filling with a delectable aroma--excellent!

At this point, we want to add the tomato puree we made, along with the sugar, salt, and red pepper. Bring the whole mixture to a boil. Then reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, as the sauce thickens. The sauce should be pretty smooth when we finished, provided we did okay during the food-processing.

Voila! You've made all-natural, excellent pizza sauce from all whole ingredients. This pizza sauce recipe can be canned or frozen, so if you have left overs after you prepare your pizza, go ahead and save some for next time.

Home Made Pizza Sauce Recipe From Scratch

Brian Fain wants to share his pizza sauce recipe with the internet. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his cat, Reece, in an apartment he likes to keep refreshingly cold, and is a graduate of Western Washington University.

See more articles about pizza sauce recipes at his website.

One Of The Best Pizza Sauce In The World Recipes

When you are in the mood for a great tasting pizza, you really want something that tastes great. Whether it is the crust, toppings, or the pizza sauce, you want great taste. In fact, you probably want to eat the best pizza sauce in the world on your pizzas. This is great, since here we provide you with the best recipe for a delicious pizza sauce you can use while making your next homemade pizza.

Pizza Toppings make or break a Pizza Recipe

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There are many different types of toppings you might want to include on your homemade pizza. For instance, people include all sorts of vegetables, meats, nuts, sea food, herbs, and spices and various types of cheeses on their pizza. While choosing vegetables to include it may be anything from alfalfa sprouts, artichoke hearts, avocados, baby leeks, beetroots, black beans, broccoli, capers, carrots, cherry tomatoes, dried tomatoes, eggplant, green, red or yellow peppers, different types of edible fungi and mushrooms, olives, lettuce, onions, different colored beans, garlic scallions, shallots, snow peas, spinach, corn, watercress, squash and zucchini.

One Of The Best Pizza Sauce In The World Recipes

However, delicious flavors do not end there since you might want to add any number of different types of meats for pizza toppings while making your own pizza recipe. Some of these many include ham, bacon, chicken, beef, duck, pepperoni, sausage, turkey, salami, and even venison. Many people also like to include cheese with their pizza. Some of these may include using cheddar, brie, blue cheese, Colby, feta, limburger, Monterey jack, mozzarella, parmesan, Muenster, provolone, ricotta, and several others.

If you are interested in adding seafood to the menu, you might consider adding anything from anchovies, prawns, crayfish, lobster, oysters, salmon, shrimp, squid, and even tuna fish. To compliment and bring out the delicious flavors of pizza ingredients, you might like to add some herbs and spices. These may include anything from basil, bay leaf, chives, cilantro, coriander, dill, garlic, jalapeno peppers, rosemary, parsley, marjoram, fenugreek, and peppers to oregano and coriander.

If you want to try something earthy and nutty, consider adding different types of nuts to the recipe. For instance, you might like to add some walnuts, pine nuts, pecans, almonds, peanuts or pistachios to your homemade pizza when you get ready to make your own best pizza sauce in the world recipe.

Recipe for the Best Pizza Sauce in the World

What You Need

• 1 can tomato sauce 8 ounces
• 1 can tomato paste 6 ounces
• ½ cup parmesan cheese
• 1 finely chopped garlic clove
• 2 Teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• ¾ teaspoon basil
• ½ teaspoon crushed sweet pepper flakes

How to Make It

Using a large mixing bowl add the tomato sauce, tomato paste, parmesan cheese, garlic, sugar, oregano, basil and pepper flakes. Mix well until thoroughly blended and then pour on top of your pizza crust. Add any other special toppings that you prefer and then bake according to the directions for cooking the pizza crust and pizza.

One Of The Best Pizza Sauce In The World Recipes

At our house, we love to make and eat pizza. In fact, I am always interested in finding more delicious pizza recipes to make for our family. If you and your children love pizza as much as we do, you may be interested in some mouthwatering recipes. If so, be sure to visit our website.

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A Few Ideas For Impressive Gourmet Pizzas

There are so many types of pizza and if you want to make a homemade pizza recipe to impress your friends or family, what about choosing a gourmet pizza recipe? You can use a readymade pizza crust and then a homemade pizza sauce recipe or make the crust, sauce and toppings yourself.

One idea for a gourmet pizza is to use a combination of different fish and seafood. You can use shrimp, crab, mussels, clams and more. Alternatively, you can stick to one or two types of seafood only and use ingredients, which go well with it, such as fresh pineapple chunks, capers and perhaps a homemade creamy or tomato-based pizza sauce.

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Another idea for an extra special gourmet pizza is to use top quality piece of steak. Thinly slice the steak and pan fry it with onions. Use this to top a pizza, adding mushrooms, bacon, and asparagus.

A Few Ideas For Impressive Gourmet Pizzas

If you prefer to use chicken, you can use a chicken marinade to infuse the chicken with flavor, before using it as a pizza topping. Marinades add a special flavor dimension to your meat or poultry, giving the pizza a true gourmet touch.

For an impressive vegetarian gourmet pizza, choose fresh vegetables like bell peppers, mushrooms, asparagus, broccoli and anything else that is colorful and crunchy. Add some flavorful cheese, perhaps goat's cheese or buffalo mozzarella, and a handful of chopped fresh herbs. Vegetarian pizzas can be just as tasty as meat or fish-based ones.

The Best Pizza Sauce Recipes for Gourmet Pizzas

Some pizza sauces are readymade and you can use hoisin sauce for a Chinese style pizza, teriyaki sauce for a Japanese style pizza, pesto if you are going to use tomatoes, mozzarella, and other Italian flavors, or taco sauce for a Mexican style pizza.

Alternatively, you can make your own gourmet sauces. Pesto is easy to make and this combination of basil, garlic, pine nuts, hard cheese, and olive oil is really flavorful. Alfredo sauce is used on pasta more often than pizza recipes but it does make a tasty sauce. This combination of butter, cream, garlic, and parmesan is perfect if you want to top your gourmet pizza with mushrooms, asparagus, ham, and other ingredients, which go nicely with it.

How to Make a Smoky BBQ Pizza Sauce

This delicious pizza sauce recipe is tangy, spicy, and sweet. It is a great pizza sauce to use if you are going to use meat on your pizza and other full-flavored toppings like onion, bell pepper, cheese, or chilies.

What you will need:

• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 2 tablespoons minced onions
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1/8 teaspoon hot sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon prepared mustard
• 1 teaspoon celery seed
• 1/3 cup chili sauce
• 2 crushed cloves garlic
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon butter

How to make it:

Add all the ingredients to a pot and bring the mixture to a boil. Turn down the heat and let it simmer for five minutes, stirring a few times. This recipe makes about one and a half cups of pizza sauce.

A Few Ideas For Impressive Gourmet Pizzas

There are many different types of pizza to choose from, so whether you fancy something quick and easy or something gourmet and exciting, there is a pizza sauce recipe for every occasion and plenty of toppings to choose from as well.

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3 Healthy Carrot Juice Recipes

Carrots are a great way to get into juicing.... they are a great staple for any juice recipe. They provide a good base to mix in and experiment with other vegetables. They are not too sweet and not too bitter. Here are a few carrot juice recipes to get you started . When you prepare the ingredients keep the skin on (if using organic produce) and benefit from the nutrients just under the surface of the skin.

Carrot-Ginger-Apple

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INGREDIENTS:

3 Healthy Carrot Juice Recipes

1/4 inch piece of ginger

1 apple

4 carrots

Cut the ginger leave the skin on. Core the apples. Slice off the tips of the carrots and put through juice extractor.

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Carrot-Apple-Beet

INGREDIENTS:

1 apple

4 to 6 carrots

¼ beetroot (peel off skin)

Core the apples. Peel the beets. Slice off the tips of the carrots and put through juice extractor.

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Carrot-Apple-Celery

INGREDIENTS:

1 apple

1 carrot

1 celery stalk

Core the apple. Slice off the tips of the carrot. Slice of tip of the celery stalk and and put through juice extractor.

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Experiment with different quantities to vary the sweetness and taste. The vegetables are most flavorful when juiced and consumed at room temperature. You can store juices overnight or for a short period of time in the refrigerator, but let the juice warm up to room temperature before drinking when possible. Vary the quantities of ingredients to get a different taste. For example; adding more apple will give a sweeter taste, while more celery or green vegetables will give the juice more of a bite.

Carrot Juicing Tips

Here are a few tips to keep in mind when juicing carrots:

1) Never looking into the food chute while the juicer is running. From time to time small particles of carrots get propelled back and can cause damage.

2) Only use the plunger to push the carrots down into the chute. Using an item knife or a wooden spoon can be potentially dangerous.

3) To save time purchase a greater number of thinner carrots instead of the fat ones. This way you will not have to spend time cutting them to fit the chute on the juicer. If you purchase a juicer with a very wide mouth then it does not matter.

4) Organic is better it will save you time and reduces exposure to potentially toxic substances.

3 Healthy Carrot Juice Recipes

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The Best Meat Loaf in the World

Every family has its own meat loaf recipe and many of them start with a soup mix. However this family recipe, given to me years ago by my mother-in-law, is made-from-scratch meat loaf. I'm not talking about the mushy, mystery meat loaf you may have eaten at restaurants. No, I'm talking about all beef meat loaf with ketchup and brown sugar topping.

Quality ingredients are what make this meat loaf so good. First of all, the recipe calls for only one kind of meat - ground beef. The bread crumbs are fresh, not something from a can. The onion is also fresh, though I've used dehydrated in a pinch. As for the topping, it makes every mouthful of meat loaf extra delicious.

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To make the meat loaf healthier I've changed a few of the ingredients. I use 90% or 93% lean ground beef, not the cheaper, fattier kind. Skim milk replaces whole milk. Instead of white bread crumbs I use whole wheat bread crumbs. Often I use no-calorie brown sugar instead of regular.

The Best Meat Loaf in the World

You can make this meat loaf in minutes. A family of four, including two teens, will probably eat this meat loaf at one sitting. If you have any leftovers you can make meat loaf sandwiches or crumble the meat loaf into spaghetti sauce. Here's the recipe, a gift from my family to yours.

THE BEST MEAT LOAF IN THE WORLD

INGREDIENTS: 3/4 cup fresh wheat bread crumbs; 3/4 cup skim milk; 1 1/2 pounds 90% or 93% lean ground beef; 2 large eggs, beaten; 1/4 cup grated onion; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground pepper; 1/2 teaspoon dried sage

Combine ingredients in a large mixing bowl with a fork. (Don't over-mix or the meat loaf will be tough.) Turn meat mixture into a meat loaf pan. Smooth the meat loaf with the tines of the fork. Prepare topping with 1/4 cup ketchup, 3 tablespoons brown sugar (or no-calorie brown sugar), 1 teaspoon dry mustard, and 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg. Spread topping over meat loaf. Bake in 350 degree oven for 1 hour. Let meat loaf cool for 10 minutes before slicing. Makes 8-10 servings.

Copyright 2005 by Harriet Hodgson.

The Best Meat Loaf in the World

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Harriet Hodgson has been a nonfiction writer for 27 years and is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. Before she became a health writer she was a food writer for the former "Rochester Magazine" in her hometown of Rochester, MN. Her 24th book, "Smiling Through Your Tears: Anticipating Grief," written with Lois Krahn, MD, is available from http://www.amazon.com A five-star review of the book is also posted on Amazon.

Finger Jello Recipes

Kids, especially preschoolers, love Finger Jello! They love it
even more when they get to help make it. Let your preschooler
cut the Jello into shapes with cookie cutters when the Jello is
set. Make green and red for Christmas, orange for
Halloween. Making finger jello can be a fun family activity!

Finger Jello Recipe #1

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3 3-oz. pkg. Jello

Finger Jello Recipes

4 pkg. Knox unflavored gelatin

4 c. boiling water

Mix all ingredients together until dissolved. Pour into
13x9x2-in. baking dish and refrigerate. Cut into squares or use
cookie cutters to create shapes.

Finger Jello Recipe #2

3 3-oz. pkg. Jello

1 c. whipping cream

2 1/2 c. boiling water

Mix Jello and boiling water together until dissolved. Add
whipping cream and continue stirring. Pour into 8x8-in. pan and
chill well.

Finger Jello Recipe #3

1 c. sweetened condensed milk

1 3-oz. pkg. purple Jello

1 3-oz. pkg. orange Jello

1 3-oz. pkg. yellow Jello

1 3-oz. pkg. green Jello

1 3-oz. pkg. red Jello

7 pkg. Knox unflavored gelatin

To prepare filling, dissolve 2 envelopes of Knox gelatin in 1/2
cup cold water. Add 1 cup boiling water to sweetened condensed
milk. Add dissolved gelatin to milk and stir in 1 additional cup
of boiling water. Set aside.

To create layers, prepare one box of Jello at a time. Mix 1
envelope Knox gelatin with 1/4 cup cold water. Add 1 cup boiling
water and 1 box Jello. Pour Jello into greased 13x9x2-inch baking
pan. Refrigerate 15-20 minutes until set.

Pour 3/4 cup filling over set Jello. Chill 15-20 minutes.
Continue layering Jello and filling, ending with Jello on top.
Chill each layer 15-20 minutes before adding next layer.

Finger Jello Recipes

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Rainbow Trout Recipes

Below you will find three wonderful recipes for rainbow trout. Trout are delicious, when cooked properly. These recipes turn out very well, and Rainbows cooked using any of them are delicious. Enjoy.

Baked Rainbow Trout

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2-3 trout

Rainbow Trout Recipes

2 tablespoons chopped parsley

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1½ teaspoons seasoned salt

6 tablespoons olive oil

1 large onion-thinly sliced

2 cloves garlic

1 large tomato, thinly sliced

4 teaspoons white wine

Spray 13x9 inch pan with liquid shortening. Arrange fish in pan and sprinkle with parsley, lemon juice and salt. Heat oil in small skillet: fry onion and garlic till limp. Pour over fish. Place tomato on fish and pour wine over fish. Bake 350 degrees 30-45 minutes. Serves 2-3.

Grilled Trout

6 small trout

Salt or seasoning for fish

Prepare trout: rub with oil and sprinkle with salt or seasoning. Place in fish basket if available or place on preheated grill rack and cook for about 15 minutes, turning as needed. Option: Rinse trout under cold water and stuff with lemon wedges and onions. Wrap in foil and cook on hot charcoal or gas grill for 6 minutes on each side. Do not overcook. Open foil and, with back of fish facing you, remove skin. There is a line
down the middle dividing the back meat and the belly meat. With fork,
Pull the back meat toward you and belly meat away from you and remove bone.
Squeeze on fresh lemon. Salt and pepper as needed.

Rainbow Trout with Artichoke Heart

6 Rainbow Trout fillets

1/2 cup butter

4 tbsp. green onion, chopped

2 tbsp. parsley, chopped

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 tbsp. lemon juice

8 oz. can of sliced mushrooms, drained

14 oz can artichoke hearts, sliced, and drained

1 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper

Pat rainbow trout fillets with a paper towel and place in flat baking dish. Melt butter in sauce pan and sauté the green onions, parsley and garlic until tender. Add lemon juice, mushrooms, artichoke hearts, salt and pepper. Cook for a few minutes until heated thoroughly. Pour sauce over the filets and bake in 325 degree F oven for about 18 minutes or until fish flakes with a fork. Serves 4.

Rainbow Trout Recipes

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Filipino Recipes - Puto Cheese Recipe - Pinoy Food

Puto cheese is just like the regular puto or rice cake. But this version uses flour instead of ground rice so the texture is a whole lot smoother. And the cheese added as topping is the reason why it is named as such. Puto cheese and hot chocolate is a great combination for breakfast. Because it is very easy to prepare, you don't have to be a seasoned chef to cook this recipe to perfection.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup cake-flour
• 1/2 cup all purpose-flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 cup white sugar (divided)
• 1/3 cup evaporated milk
• 1/3 cup water
• 2 pcs egg yolks
• 2 pcs egg whites
• 1/4 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 tsp salt
• cheese (sliced into small strips)

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Cooking Instructions:

• In a medium-sized mixing bowl, sift the cake flour, all-purpose flour, salt and baking powder. Repeat the step three times then set aside.
• Beat yolks until the color is lemon yellow. Gradually add ½ cup sugar while beating continuously.
• Fold in the flour mixture, alternately with milk and water, to the beaten egg yolks. Add the vanilla and mix thoroughly. Set aside.
• Beat egg whites until soft peaks are formed. Add the remaining ¼ cup sugar and go on beating the mixture until stiff. Fold in the egg batter. Mix well and pour mixture in puto molder about ¾ full.
• Top with slices of cheese. Cover with clean cheese cloth.
• Steam for 25-30 minutes. You will know the puto cheese is cooked when you insert a tester in the center and it comes out clean.
• To retain the solid shape of the puto cheese, let cool for a few minutes before removing from the puto molds.

Filipino Recipes - Puto Cheese Recipe - Pinoy Food

Filipino Recipes - Puto Cheese Recipe - Pinoy Food

Jasmine is a native Filipino with a passion for cooking and gardening. Her love of Pinoy food has lead her to create a website to share her favorite Filipino recipes with the world.

Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast Recipes - Two Quick, Easy, and Healthy Recipes

Boneless skinless chicken breast recipes are easy to make, quick to get to table, and good for you. The most common way to prepare them involves oven cooking to reduce fat content that frying may not offer.

However, if small amounts of olive oil are used for frying many recipes can be developed which are faster than oven baking and just as nutritious. One such recipe is Chesapeake Chicken.

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Chesapeake Chicken

Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast Recipes - Two Quick, Easy, and Healthy Recipes

Chicken breasts
1 Tbsp. olive oil
1 Tbsp. butter
1 to 2 Tbsp.Old Bay seasoning
3/4 cup Low fat whipping cream

Fry chicken breasts in olive oil and butter until almost cooked (15-25 minutes)
Add Old Bay seasoning to taste (2 Tbsp is a very spicy amount)
Add low fat whipping cream
Simmer until thickened, stirring occasionally

Oven Baked Chicken Breast

This low fat meat should be a vital component of any healthy diet plan. It is a relatively inexpensive source of quality protein.

As tasty as this is you have to remember that you don't need as much protein as Americans usually eat every day. Your daily protein requirement is a piece of meat approximately the size of a pack of playing cards. Keeping that visual in mind will help you determine proper portion size.

Oven Baked Chicken Breast With Onions And Bell Pepper

Chicken Breasts
2 medium onions, sliced
2 bell peppers, cut into rings then halve rings
3 Tbsp. olive oil
2 Tbsp. butter
Sea salt to taste

Coat the chicken breasts with 1 Tbsp. of olive oil and place into baking pan
Sprinkle chicken breasts with sea salt
Bake chicken uncovered in 350 degree preheated oven for 45 minutes
Place onions in a skillet with 1 Tbsp. of butter and 1 Tbsp. olive oil then sauté until translucent
Place bell pepper in a separate skillet with 1 Tbsp. of butter and and 1 Tbsp. olive oil then sauté until slightly browned

Serve with a side of sauteed onion and bell pepper. Place the onions on one side of the chicken breast and peppers on the other. This will add visual interest to your dish and keep the flavors separated.

A side dish of whole grain pasta and marinara sauce (marinara from a jar is fine) will add a great accoutrement to this dish. Garnish with grated Parmesan cheese.

Served with a hearty red wine this simple meal becomes an elegant offering fit for guests.

Begin the meal with a large salad or raw vegetable platter. This will give you the raw food enzymes that are destroyed when food is heated. Such a diverse offering will give you a wide array of nutrients.

The sea salt adds minerals to your foods. Olive oil is very "body friendly" and is always a welcome addition to any dish. Butter offers wonderful flavor and "anti-stiffness" factors. Red wine offers anti-oxidants and is therefore part of a heart smart diet.

Now you have two great boneless skinless chicken breast recipes you can eat knowing they are offering you vital nutrients to make you healthier. Great taste, when combined with "body friendly" versions of your favorite recipes will allow you to eat healthy and not feel the least bit deprived.

Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast Recipes - Two Quick, Easy, and Healthy Recipes

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How to Make Your Own Homemade Spaghetti Sauce For Canning

During the summer months, I like to make my own homemade spaghetti sauce. Once I have it made, I will freeze or can it for future use. This particular sauce is great for spaghetti, lasagna, rigatoni, ravioli and manicotti.

Italian Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

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6 lbs. lean ground beef
2 (8 ounce) packages of pepperoni
2 (12 ounce) cans tomato paste
2 (15 ounce) cans Italian tomato sauce
5 (29 ounce) cans tomato puree
2 1/2 teaspoons seasoning salt
1 teaspoon onion salt
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
2 bay leaves
2 teaspoons garlic salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
2 teaspoons table salt
1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
2 tablespoons oregano leaves
1 1/2 teaspoons red pepper
2 teaspoons chili powder
2 tablespoons dried onion
1/2 teaspoon rosemary
1/2 teaspoon thyme

How to Make Your Own Homemade Spaghetti Sauce For Canning

Brown the lean ground beef in a large frying pan, drain off burger grease. In a large stock pot, combine cooked beef, pepperoni, tomato paste, tomato sauce and tomato puree. Cook for 10 minutes on medium heat. Turn heat down to simmer and stir in all of the spices. Simmer the sauce for 45 to 60 minutes to allow all of the spices to infuse into the sauce mixture.

How to can your spaghetti sauce:

Sterilize and clean your canning jars. (I prefer using quart-sized wide mouth jars). Ladle hot mixture into hot jars. Clean the rims of jars with a clean cotton towel. Seal jars and then process in a water bath canner for 30 minutes. Remove jars from canner and allow them to cool down in a non-drafty area of your kitchen.

Note: You can also freeze the spaghetti sauce in freezer safe airtight container for up to 1 year.

How to Make Your Own Homemade Spaghetti Sauce For Canning

Shelly Hill has been working from home in Direct Sales since 1989. Shelly is a Manager with Tupperware. Shelly enjoys cooking and baking for her friends and family. You can visit Shelly online at http://www.workathomebusinessoptions.com or her Shakin 'N Bakin recipe blog at http://wahmshelly.blogspot.com

5 Easy No-Bake Pie Crust Recipes

During the hot Summer months, I avoid heating up my kitchen with the oven. I prefer to make no-bake pie crusts, by using alternative ingredients.

You don't need to use a rolling pin, dough board, pastry blender or any of the traditional pie baking equipment. All you basically need are the ingredients, a large bowl, a measuring cup and of course, your pie pan.

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These recipes are easy to make and best suited for refrigerated or frozen dessert-style pies. You will want to chill your pie crust for 1 hour (or until firm), before filling the pie shell with your pie filling.

5 Easy No-Bake Pie Crust Recipes

Here are 5 of my favorite recipes.

Chocolate Cookie Crumb

24 chocolate sandwich cookies, crushed
1/4 c. butter, melted

Combine crushed cookie crumbs with melted butter until well mixed. Press mixture firmly into place into a 9" around pie pan.

Cornflake Crust

1 c. crushed cornflakes
1/4 c. sugar
6 tbsp. butter (melted)

Combine crushed cornflakes with sugar and butter, until well mixed. Spread the crumb mixture evenly and firmly into a 9" round pie pan.

Vanilla Wafer Crust

1 1/2 c. finely crushed vanilla wafers (about 39)
6 tbsp. butter, melted

Combine crushed wafers with butter, until well mixed. Spread the crumb mixture evenly and firmly into a 9" round pie pan.

Graham Cracker Crumb

1 c. crushed graham crackers
1/4 c. sugar
6 tbsp. butter (melted)

Combine crushed graham crackers with sugar and butter. Toss thoroughly to combine. Press mixture firmly into a 9" round pie pan.

Pretzel Crust

1 1/4 c. crushed pretzels (no salt)
1/4 c. sugar
6 tbsp. butter (melted)

Combine crushed pretzels with sugar and melted butter. Toss to thoroughly to combine. Press mixture firmly into a 9" round pie plate.

5 Easy No-Bake Pie Crust Recipes

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Web: http://www.classybusinesswomen.com
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No Bake Recipes for Kids

Healthy fun no bake recipes are as close as you mouse. No need to heat up the oven or turn on the microwave for these simple treats. These no bake easy recipes for kids will provide them some scrumptious deserts and healthy treats. The kids will have fun and you can relax while the kids enjoy preparing their own snacks.

No Bake Peanut Butter Balls

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Instructions:

No Bake Recipes for Kids

1. Spread peanut butter on one graham cracker.

2. Spread jelly on the other and make a sandwich - Now that's easy.

3. Set out all the ingredients so the kids can experiment with several combinations to create a one-of-a-kind creation.

No-Bake Yogurt Pie

Ingredients:

*1-9" graham cracker crust shell

*1-8oz. container of orange flavored yogurt

*1- C. thawed whipped non-dairy topping

*1/2-C. canned mandarin orange slices - drained and broken into pieces

Instructions:

1.Combine yogurt and whipped topping together in a bowl and stir with a spoon

2.Add mandarin orange slice and stir

3. Spoon into the pie shell

4. Cover with plastic

5. Wrap and chill

You can freeze this pie and thaw slightly before serving.

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Appetizers and Snacks

Vegetable Dippers

Ingredients:

*Bowl of carrots

*Celery

*Cucumbers

*Cherry tomatoes

Instructions:

1. Mix a 16 oz. container of light sour cream with dry soup mixes like tomato, vegetable or onion.

2. Allow the dip to blend over night or mix it up in the morning.

Cream Cheese Dip

Ingredients:

*1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese with chives

*1 (5 ounce) container sharp processed cheese food

Fruit Dips-1

Ingredients:

*2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened

*1 cup brown sugar

*2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Fruit Dip #2

Ingredients:

*Cream cheese

*Crushed pineapple

Instructions:

1. Combine cream cheese and crushed pineapple

2. Stir until you reach the desired taste and consistency

No Bake Recipes for Kids

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Making Homemade Salsa - Recipes The Fast and Easy Way!

A good homemade salsa can spice up a meal and add a little life to your party and as well as your party trays. While it is easy to find salsa at any grocery store, it's just not the same as one which you make yourself. Making a salsa from scratch is actually quite easy. With the right salsa recipe and just a little preparation time, you can create a good homemade salsa that will have people coming back for more.

There are some things you can do so that the process of making a salsa recipe will be as quick and effortless as possible. For example a food processor or a food chopper can cut down on the time it takes and is much less messy when you have to clean up.

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You can also add your own 'personality into your salsa recipe. You can take it and make slight tweaks here and there to suit your taste. You can add more tomatoes or reduce the peppers to create a more mild version of your salsa. Alternatively, you can add other types of peppers such as jalapenos to give your salsa some extra kick.

Making Homemade Salsa - Recipes The Fast and Easy Way!

To make a thicker and full bodied salsa, extract the seeds and the juice of the tomatoes before preparing. Also any extra liquid can be extracted when boiling for an extra measure of thickness. You will have to experiment a little bit to get the consistency of your unique salsa recipe just right.

You can start to creatively come up with new ways to use your homemade salsa - you don't have to use it only with chips. For example you can add some salsa to your nachos or bean dips. You can also take your fried or grilled meat and serve that with your salsa as well. Don't limit yourself.

You can take your salsa and use it to make quite a healthy snack. You can bake tortillas in order to make tortilla chips for a low fat snack and serve your salsa with it.

Don't be surprised if you keep getting asked to make it over and over. If that is the case you may want to make larger batches - maybe twice or three times the amount the recipe calls for. You can put the extra salsa into containers and put it into your freezer. You will always be ready whenever guests arrive.

Keep experimenting and tweaking your homemade salsa recipes and you will find those recipes that have that perfect taste for you and your guests. And those compliments will keep coming!

Making Homemade Salsa - Recipes The Fast and Easy Way!

Author: Tony Buel

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Does Mozzarella Cheese Go Bad?

All cheese goes bad, but it all goes bad in different times and in different ways. It is important that you properly care for the cheese that you purchase and store it correctly so that it will stay for as long as its shelf life allows. Cheese that isn't taken care of properly will end up going bad and will be unsafe to eat. If you take care of it, you may be able to get more shelf life out of your cheese and use your mozzarella cheese to the end of the ball, loaf, of whatever other form it came in.

Fresh mozzarella or the buffalo mozzarella has a much shorter shelf life than the other kinds of mozzarella cheese. It is important that you use this mozzarella cheese up as quickly as you can. This cheese has not been aged, so it doesn't have the same shelf life as the ones that have been aged properly. It is important with fresh mozzarella that you use it up in a couple of days. If you see mold on this kind of mozzarella cheese or if you see that it has an odd smell to it, you are going to want to toss it.

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If you are purchasing mozzarella like part skim or the whole mozzarella that has been aged and through the entire cheese making process, it will have a longer shelf life. This mozzarella cheese lasts longer because it has been through the aging process which basically helps to create a little more preservation. This cheese will not last forever, but it will last a lot longer than the mozzarella that is fresh. Even with this mozzarella, if you see some mold on it, it is still OK to eat. But, you will want to be sure that you properly remove the mold, which means cutting it out and ensuring that there are no mold spores left on the cheese, it will still be good to eat as long as the mold is all gone.

Does Mozzarella Cheese Go Bad?

Long answer short, mozzarella cheese does go bad, but it will last for a while depending on the kind that you get. Your fresh mozzarella is going to go bad a lot quicker than the mozzarella that has been aged. But, with proper storage in an airtight container and proper refrigeration you may be able to extend the shelf life of your cheese. Know when your mozzarella goes bad.

Does Mozzarella Cheese Go Bad?

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Fruit Smoothie Recipes: Healthy Smoothies for Diabetics

You may think that smoothies are sweet concoctions that diabetics should avoid at all cost, and you would be wrong. Even if you have diabetes, you can still enjoy all the benefits of a healthy smoothie. You'll find many diabetic-friendly smoothie recipes that are low in carbohydrates and fats yet high in vitamins, minerals and proteins. Be sure to use whole fruits to get the maximum benefits out of healthy smoothies for diabetics.

We have a number of smoothie recipes below that call for fruits. These recipes are diabetic-friendly for the following reasons:

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1. They do not include refined sugar
2. These recipes use fresh or frozen whole fruits. Fruits are high in dietary fiber and they contain complex carbohydrates.
3. Some smoothie recipes contain flax seed or wheat germ. These super foods help keep blood sugar at normal levels.
4. These smoothies are low-calorie and low in carbohydrates. Diabetics and non-diabetics alike can enjoy these healthy smoothies.

Fruit Smoothie Recipes: Healthy Smoothies for Diabetics

To enjoy the following recipes, combine all ingredients in a blender. Blend until smooth. Serve and enjoy!

Strawberry & Banana Breakfast Smoothie

• 1 cup skim milk
• 3/4 cup low-fat yogurt
• 1/2 cup silken tofu
• 1 small banana
• 1-1/4 cups strawberries, preferably frozen
• 1/2 cup crushed ice

Blueberry & Banana Smoothie

• 1 cup skim milk
• 3/4 cup low-fat yogurt
• 1/2 cup silken tofu
• 1 banana, peeled and sliced
• 3/4 cup blueberries
• 1/2 cup crushed ice

Banana Smoothie

• 2 ripe bananas, peeled and sliced (preferably frozen)
• 1/4 cup low-fat vanilla or fruit yogurt
• 2 cups low-fat milk
• 2 tbsp wheat germ or oat bran
• Ground nutmeg to taste (optional)

Mixed Berry Smoothie

• 1 cup frozen berries of your choice
• 1/4 cup low fat vanilla yogurt
• 1 tbsp malted milk powder
• 2 tsp wheat germ or oat bran
• 1 egg or egg substitute (optional)

Green Smoothie for Diabetics

• 2 cups water
• 2-3 cups lightly packed baby spinach leaves (preferably organic)
• 1 pear
• 1/2 to 1 banana
• 1/4 tsp cardamom
• 1-2 tbsp chia seeds (soak in 2 cups water for a while)

TIP: Chia seeds are high in fiber, calcium, protein, antioxidants and omega-3. You can buy them at health stores.

Strawberry Flax Smoothie

• 1 cup fresh or frozen strawberries
• 1/2 cup nonfat vanilla yogurt
• 1/2 cup skim milk
• 3 tbsp flax meal
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Fruit Smoothie Recipes: Healthy Smoothies for Diabetics

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Secrets to Great Homemade Pizza

A pizza is the sum of its parts; namely, the pizza crust, the pizza toppings and the pizza sauce. Make each one as wonderful as you can make it and you'll be assured of turning out the best homemade pizza possible. Try out the following secrets when you make your homemade pizza.

Pizza Crust Secrets

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Bake your pizza crust separately: It would be best if you can bake your pizza crust first before you add on the toppings and sauce. There's one good reason for doing this. If you bake the lot at one and the same time, you may end up with a pizza that has overcooked toppings, burnt cheese and an undercooked, flat crust. Of course, you should not bake your crust fully the first time so that you won't end up with a pizza that has a burnt crust after your final baking stage.

Secrets to Great Homemade Pizza

Mixing pizza dough ingredients: Begin by putting in a bowl at least one-tenth of the warm water specified in your homemade pizza recipe. Add yeast gradually to the water, stir and let it stand for a few minutes. Meanwhile, in a separate bowl, put the remaining warm water, stir in the sugar and salt (if your recipe calls for these ingredients) and the other dry ingredients except the flour, add the water and yeast mixture, stir the lot then immediately add the rest of the ingredients.

Kneading the pizza mixture: Kneading will let air mix with your pizza dough mixture. You should knead the pizza dough only until it reaches the proper consistency: the dough doesn't stick to the container and individual portions can be stretched without breaking. Over-kneading will result in brittle pizza dough. While kneading the dough, use flour to prevent the mixture from sticking to your hands and the bowl, but use as little flour as possible.

Let your pizza dough rise before using it: After kneading your pizza dough, you must give it enough time to rise to your desired thickness. Generally, the longer the fermentation time you allow your pizza, the better the taste of the pizza crust. However, be careful not to use too much yeast if you are going to let the dough rise for hours (say you prepared the dough in the morning and let it relax for the rest of the day in preparation for baking by day end).

If speed is of the essence: If you need the pizza dough as quickly as possible, you can let it rise faster by adding more yeast to the mixture or by increasing the temperature of the dough. To do the latter, you can heat your oven for a few minutes, turn it off, cool the oven off a bit by leaving the oven door open for a few seconds, put the dough in a covered bowl, put the bowl in the oven and close the door. Let the mixture stay in the warm oven for at least 30 minutes, take it out, softly press the dough down then repeat the "rising" exercise for another 30 minutes. Another technique that you can apply for a faster fermentation period is to use warm water. The higher the water temperature, the faster yeast action will be. Just a note of caution, however, the pizza dough which has been allowed to ferment longer using minimum amount of yeast generally results into a better-tasting pizza crust so it's best that you mix and knead your dough hours before you actually need it.

Frozen homemade pizza dough preparation: If you have prepared pizza dough the night before and left it in the refrigerator for next day's baking, take it out in the morning and let it rise for at least several hours before you use it. Again, the less the yeast used, the longer the rising period required.

To make a thin pizza crust: If you are aiming for a thin crust pizza, you will want to use less dough per pan. You can also just stretch your pizza dough more on the pan. Doing this will naturally reduce the crust thickness.

To get a thick pizza crust: For a thicker crust, you need to use a pizza pan with a smaller circumference, use more pizza dough per pan or stretch out the dough less. The result would be increased crust thickness.

To get a crispy pizza crust: For a crispy pizza crust, it would be best if you reduce the amount of water. Drier pizza dough usually means a crispier pizza crust. Stiffer pizza dough also means crispier crust so it would be best to use flour with high gluten content if you want a crispy crust.

For a soft and gooey crust: To get a soft and chewy crust, you need to add more water to your dough mixture or use less flour. More moist pizza dough means softer pizza crust. To achieve better results, use flour with low gluten content. You may make gluten-free pizza dough by using gluten-free flour

If you live in a high-altitude location: Be mindful of the effect of high altitude on pizza dough. A higher altitude means less air pressure so the dough will rise faster, and it means a faster rate of evaporation so the dough will dry out faster. Thus, if you are in a high-altitude location, it is generally advisable to use more water and less yeast in your pizza dough mixture than you would normally use if you were in a low-altitude location.

Pizza Toppings

Simply speaking, the pizza toppings you should use depend on the type of pizza that you want. Fresh mozzarella cheese is necessary if you want to make a New York pizza. New York style pizza is typically minimalist; that is to say, they use as few toppings as possible. On the other hand, a Chicago deep dish pizza is usually loaded with meaty toppings: pepperoni, beef sausage, pork sausage, ground beef, bacon, ham, etc. You will also see bell peppers, mushrooms, and different kinds of cheese on a typical Chicago pizza. Tomatoes, cheese, anchovies, garlic, and herbs like basil and oregano, on the other hand, are typical of Italian pizza. California pizza, on the other hand, is characterized by seasonal vegetable toppings, fruit toppings, chicken pizza toppings, smoked salmon toppings, and other unusual toppings.

For great economy: Use pizza toppings that you already have on hand. Bacon, ham and sausages left over from breakfast, for instance, will make great toppings. Innovate depending on what ingredients you have. Naturally, cooked toppings will require less time in the oven so be sure to take this into account when baking your pizza.

Fresh toppings: It is recommended that you use fresh ingredients for your pizza toppings. Use fresh mozzarella cheese, if possible.

Finger crush herbs: To release the flavor of dried herbs, it is best to finger crush them before you add them to your pizza.

Drain and dry toppings: To avoid getting a soggy pizza, especially if you are using lots of canned and moist ingredients, you should drain your toppings of excess moisture before you arrange them on your pizza base.

Pizza Sauce

Your pizza sauce will give your pizza its distinctive flavor. In the web, you can find a lot of easy pizza sauce recipes to follow. You can even try making your own trademark pizza sauce.

Easy pizza sauce recipe: There should be canned, pre-mixed pizza sauces available in your local supermarket. On the other hand, you can use spaghetti sauce as your pizza sauce. Another easy alternative would be to sauté some onions and garlic in extra virgin olive oil, add tomato sauce (chunky tomato sauce is fine or tomato paste/puree diluted with some water), add salt (and crushed pepper if preferred), let the sauce simmer then add basil and oregano. You can even add some balsamic vinegar if you wish. You can also add some cooked ground meat to your sauce if you prefer.

Thicker sauce is better: Use thick pizza sauce on your pizza. Too watery pizza sauce means a soggy pizza. If you are using canned pizza sauce, evaluate the thickness. If too thin, let the sauce simmer before using it on your pizza.

Pizza sauce on top: When cooking your pizza, it is advisable to put the sauce on top. This will prevent your cheese and other ingredients from burning.

Secrets to Great Homemade Pizza

Sean Lannin

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World's Best Hamburger Recipe

It is a claim I have made for many years but ultimately the worlds best hamburger recipe is down to your personal tastes. That said, in my humble opinion, this is the simplest but without a shadow of doubt the best hamburger recipe in the world!

To achieve perfection you will require some ground minced beef of extraordinary proportions this being 1 to 1.5 pounds of minced chuck steak. This was easy for me being a Master butcher of course, but you will need to ask your local butcher nicely, and I am sure he will be only too happy to oblige. The reason we are looking for ground mince using only the chuck meat is due to the fat content. The ultimate hamburger requires around a 20% fat content to flavour the meat whilst cooking and the beef fat marbled within the chuck meat is perfect for this.

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You will need to be careful when handling the mince and mixing, use your hands but do not over mix the ground beef, for perfection purposes the heat of your hands will start to break down some of the fat content, and we want this to occur once it is cooking.

World's Best Hamburger Recipe

Worlds Best Hamburger Recipe Ingredients

1 to 1.5lbs of minced ground chuck

1 x small onion finley chopped (as small as you can)

1 x Tablespoon tomatoe ketchup

1 x Tablespoon of Soy Sauce

1/2 Teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce

1/2 Teaspoon of thyme (fresh is best but dried will do)

Half a teaspoon of salt and a touch of freshly ground black pepper

Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl and form patties around half an inch in thickness. You should get around 4 burger patties from this.

Get your grill ready on a medium to high heat and bring up to temperature. Gently place under the grill for around 4 minutes one side and 3 minutes the other being careful not to disrupt your patties as you turn them. Check after this time with a skewer in the centre to ensure they are cooked to your liking. To achieve the best hamburgers in the world you are now going to have to leave the burgers 'resting' on a warm plate with some foil covering for about 3 minutes. This will allow the amazing juices to reabsorb back into the meat.

Once 3 minutes have passed (it will seem like 3 days!) serve them up with some crisp salad and home made chips - the worlds best hamburgers are now ready for you to eat!

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Best Stovetop Hamburgers Recipe

I'm going to not only show you the best hamburger recipe, but I'm going to show you how to cook the best stovetop hamburger. There are a few secrets to this, and I do love to grill out in the spring and summer all the time - but you can actually cook hamburgers and cheeseburgers in your kitchen on the stove by frying them to perfection! This is how we make the best burgers indoors in the winter time!

What you will need for ingredients:

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* about 3 lbs certified angus beef ground chuck (tastes and cooks best)
* about 1/3 a sweet vidalia onion diced
* about 1/3 green pepper diced
* salt and fresh ground pepper - 1 tbsp each
* 2 tbsp fresh minced garlic (from the jar, fresh has a bit too much bite)
* 1 tbsp Chef Paul Prudhomme's Magic Seasoning Salt
* Kraft Mozzerella Deli Cheese Slices and American Cheese Slices
* Toppings like fresh lettuce, tomato, onion, etc.
* Hamburger condiments

Best Stovetop Hamburgers Recipe

The first thing you need to do is put your ground beef in a large mixing bowl with the garlic, salt, pepper, Magic Seasoning, and diced onion and green pepper. Mix well. Make patties, we make 1/2 lb burgers so 3 lbs of ground chuck yields 6 burgers. You CAN make burgers this thick on the stove in 10-12 minutes and THEY WILL NOT be PINK in the middle AT ALL!

Next turn up the heat on your burner to high and set the timer on your stove for about 6 minutes. You are not going to flip or press or do anything to these burgers for the entire 6 minutes. Find the tightest fitting lid you can find and keep this pan covered (don't peek) the entire 6 minutes. When your timer goes off you're going to take the lid off and set it in the sink (it's very hot and wet underneath and you don't want that dripping all over your stove).

Flip the hamburgers in the pan with your spatula being careful not to splatter the grease on yourself. Like the picture, you may notice one or two of them darker than the others, and that is where the hotspots are on your burner. Rotate the pan 180 degrees if needed to cook the rest of the way. Once they are flipped, put the cover back on your pan and set your timer to 6 minutes again - but this time turn the heat down to med-high. You are not going to turn these burgers again until they timer goes off - and you will not remove the lid.

The reason that these burgers are so juicy is because they are only turned one time. The reason they cook so well leaving no pink in the middle is the way they cook with the lid on - it's like steaming vegetables and cooks them through and through. You cook them on high the first half because they are raw, and turn the heat down when they are flipped because they are 2/3 done. When the final 6 minutes is over, take off the lid and turn down the heat to low. Then quickly put one slice of mozzerella on each burger, and then one slice of American on top of that. Put the lid on and cook 60 seconds, then take the lid off and turn the heat off - you burgers should look like this picture!

Then all you have to do is put your burgers on a bun and top them with what you like and you're good to go! I personally like lettuce, tomato, onion, mustard and ketchup! These burgers are very tasty, very good - and just like the huge bistro burgers you would get at any one of the best restaurants!

Best Stovetop Hamburgers Recipe

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Sensational Side Dishes For Pizza

Pizza is of course a meal in its own right and side dishes are strictly optional. However, it can be nice to serve tasty side dishes with pizza. Garlic bread is popular, as are dough balls and other high calorie snacks. If you want something healthier you could serve a mixed salad with your homemade pizza recipe. This could be a fruity salad with sweet ingredients like chopped pineapple or peach as well as the lettuce and tomato or a green mixed leaf salad.

Corn on the cob is another good idea if you are making pizza. If you are going all out and making homemade pizza, why not make a few tasty side dishes to go with it? A homemade pizza is an extra special meal from the delicious homemade pizza dough right up to the toppings and sauce.

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If you are going to take the trouble to make a pizza yourself, making one or two side dishes will make the meal even more impressive and memorable. There are side dishes you can make ahead, like salad, which are fine in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve your pizza.

Sensational Side Dishes For Pizza

The Best Side Dishes

Garlic bread is a great side dish because it is so easy to make. Just mash some garlic into butter, spread it on a French baguette and broil or bake it until it is hot and golden brown. A salad is also easy to make and you just need to toss your salad ingredients together.

If you think about famous pizza outlets like Domino's, you might think about cheese bread sticks or buffalo hot wings. These might be good side dishes to order if you want to relax with a takeout or if you want to eat at a pizza restaurant but when you are considering a home-cooked meal, the pizza should be the main focus, rather than high calorie side dishes which fill people up before they have had a chance to enjoy the pizza properly.

Recipe for Zucchini and Bacon Salad

If you are serving up home-cooked pizza for your family, you might want to serve a healthy salad on the side. Homemade pizza can be healthy, especially if you use a healthy whole wheat pizza dough recipe and lots of vegetable toppings but there is no harm in serving up a nutritious salad alongside it as well.

The following salad recipe features cheese and bacon to tempt everyone into having some, as well as nutritious onion and zucchini. This makes enough to serve eight people. Feel free to substitute natural yogurt for half the mayonnaise to lower the fat and calorie counts.

You will need:

• 2 zucchini
• 6 slices bacon
• 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
• 1/2 red onion, chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon tomato puree
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• Dash Worcestershire sauce

How to make it:

Fry the bacon until it is crispy then drain it on paper towels. Cut the zucchini into bite-sized pieces. Mix it with the crumbled bacon, onion and cheese. Stir the Worcestershire sauce and tomato puree into the mayonnaise, and then combine the zucchini mixture with this dressing. Chill for an hour and serve with your favorite homemade pizza recipe.

Sensational Side Dishes For Pizza

Homemade side dishes are the perfect accompaniment to homemade pizza. If you make your own pizza, rather than reheating a pre-packaged frozen pizza, you get to choose every part of the recipe. From the type of pizza dough you choose right up to the sauce and toppings you can design your very own pizza. Use the best ingredients and you can make a wonderful pizza dough recipe topped with an incredible sauce and your family's favorite toppings. Homemade pizza is a real treat and it is easy to make too.

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How to Make a Delicious Healthy Pizza Recipe

There are lots of types of pizza. You can have a thin, crispy crust or a thick, bread crust. There are various pizza sauces, including traditional tomato sauce, spicy sauce or even a parsley infused creamy white sauce. Pizza toppings vary enormously. Pepperoni pizza is the most popular pizza variety but this is only one type.

Some people like to stick with a theme when making pizza recipes. They like to use various types of meat for a meat feast pizza, white and green ingredients only for a "white pizza recipe" or the most colorful ingredients they can find for a grilled vegetable pizza. Other people enjoy mixing and matching their pizza toppings or using up anything in the refrigerator that needs to be used up.

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Tips for a Nutritious Pizza

How to Make a Delicious Healthy Pizza Recipe

If you want to make a healthy pizza, there are a few things you can do. Choose a thin pizza crust rather than a calorific deep dish one. Use a tomato sauce rather than a cream sauce and choose your pizza toppings with care.

Vegetables are great for topping your homemade pizza recipes because they are colorful, flavorful and they suit any meat, poultry or fish toppings. You can add raw vegetables, grilled vegetables or thawed vegetables to your pizza.

Use reduced fat cheese instead of full fat cheese as a healthier topping for your pizza recipes. Goat's cheese and reduced fat mozzarella are a good combination. Hard cheeses like parmesan are also good, firstly because the strong flavor means you will not need to use much and secondly because hard cheeses are lower in fat than soft cheeses.

How to Roast Bell Peppers

Roasted bell pepper is one of the tastiest toppings you can use on a healthy pizza recipe. Roasting your own peppers is very easy and you can roast red, yellow, orange or green bell peppers. Roasting them makes them succulent, juicy and bursting with flavor.

There are various ways to roast a bell pepper. The easiest way is to put a bell pepper over the burner of a gas stove or on your grill. Turn the pepper using tongs and keep cooking it until the skin is black and charred.

Alternatively you can broil a bell pepper. Rub vegetable oil all over it first, and then put it on a baking sheet. Use tongs to turn it when the top starts to go black. You can either broil a whole bell pepper or slice it into wedges and broil those. Another method is to cook the bell pepper wedges or strips in a skillet in olive oil. When they are tender, they are done.

The easiest way to get the skin off a roasted bell pepper is to put it in a bowl and cover it with plastic wrap. This traps the steam. Leave the bell pepper for twenty minutes then you should find the skin comes off easily. Pull the stem out before you take off the skin. Roasted peppers make a delicious topping for homemade pizza recipes.

How to Make a Delicious Healthy Pizza Recipe

You can add nutritious ingredients to a pepperoni pizza or choose from many other types of pizza to adapt. Add some tasty roasted or grilled vegetables to your favorite pizza recipe and you can boost the nutritional value and the taste at the same time.

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Easy Pizza Recipe - A Quick, Tasty Dinner Fix

Who doesn't love pizza? I do, you do, our friends do. Everyone loves pizza - and it's easy to see why. If you're the type who does not cook or does not have the time to cook, then pizza deliveries are a lifesaver. If, on the other hand, you enjoy cooking but don' have much time to spend in the kitchen, then an easy pizza recipe is the ideal dinner fix for those busy weeknights when you need to make dinner quickly but painlessly.

An easy pizza recipe is easy enough to find. You can buy a cookbook, ask for recipes from friends, or download resources online. The last option is my favorite because as a career woman and a mom, I neither have the time to peruse cookbooks or compare notes with friends. My favorite resource at the moment is Beverly Collins' latest release, 'Secrets from Inside the Pizzeria.' It's a good resource for both beginners and seasoned cooks alike because it shares the secrets to some of Manhattan's best pizza places using language that is fun to read and easy to understand.

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Remember, for pizza to be delicious, it does not have to be complicated. An easy pizza recipe is guaranteed to do the trick. You do not need fancy equipment to create tasty pizza you can share with family and friends. You do not need a dough hook, bread machine, or even a food processor. You do not even need a broiler or a brick oven although pizza cooked using these equipment tastes amazing. The truth is, to get a deliciously crusty crust, all you need is to turn your oven on for a good ten minutes before you put your pizza in. Be careful not to put your face or hands anywhere near this blazing inferno though or you would end up not just with scrumptious pizza but with a high-heat facial as well!

Easy Pizza Recipe - A Quick, Tasty Dinner Fix

Easy Pizza Recipe - A Quick, Tasty Dinner Fix

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Chicken Pizza Recipe

Pizza is the kind of food that hardly anyone can resist specially children just love it. The best thing about making pizzas at home is that you can use anything, including leftovers, to make pizza toppings. This is a chicken pizza recipe having chicken topping and is also known as fajita Pizza which is very popular version of pizza served at many pizza shops.

Ingredients for Chicken Marination:
1/2 kg chicken boneless
1/2 tbsp roasted cumin powder
1 tsp white pepper powder
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Salt to taste

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Ingredients for Pizza Topping:
Capsicum cut in squares
Butter Mushrooms cut into halves
Black Olives
Green Olives
Mozzarella cheese
Cheddar cheese
Pinch of Oregano
Pinch of Rosemary

Chicken Pizza Recipe

Cooking Instructions:
Marinate all chicken pieces in the spices listed above for chicken marination and leave them for 30 minutes. After that you can either steam the marinated chicken or you can shallow fry it. To cook chicken on steam, you have to boil water in a deep sauce pan and place chicken pieces on the strainer and put the strainer over boiling water. Then cover the pan and cook on low heat for 15 minutes until chicken becomes tender. If you want to shallow fry chicken pieces, put 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a pan and then put marinated chicken pieces and cook for 10-15 minutes until chicken become dry and tender. Now you have to assemble the pizza. Take a pre-made pizza dough and spread it onto your pizza pan. Now make a layer of pizza sauce on it, put the chicken pieces evenly, make a cheese layer as much as you like and put some pieces of vegetables mentioned is the pizza topping list. In the end, sprinkle some oregano and rosemary to add great pizza odor. Now you can put the pizza pan in preheated oven for 10 minutes at 250 degree centigrade and turn on both upper and lower flame. Take out the pizza after 10 minutes when it turns light brown from sides and all the cheese melts. For right baking, reduce the oven temperature to 200 degree centigrade after 5 minutes and turn off the lower flame as well. It will make your dough soft from inside and have wonderful color on top.

Chicken Pizza Recipe

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The Best Marinated Lamb Pizza Recipe

If you are a meat lover, you would probably not order or buy a meatless pizza. There are lots of different types of meat you can use to make great pizza recipes, so if you want something different from your usual ham and cheese pizza or pepperoni pizza, read on to find out how to make a marinated lamb pizza.

You can use leftover meat to top your pizza recipes. If you have leftover beef, lamb or chicken tonight, why not use this to make a delicious pizza topping? Add some tomatoes, cheese, oregano and any other vegetables you want to use up and you have tomorrow's dinner organized.

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Mouthwatering Greek Lamb Pizza

The Best Marinated Lamb Pizza Recipe

This delicious pizza recipe is made with marinated lamb, feta cheese, olives and more. The ancient Greeks were the first race to eat pizza and this pizza is a modern take on Greek flavors.

This recipe makes two pizzas, so you will have enough to feed eight people. Serve this Greek lamb pizza with a green salad, maybe a Greek salad with black olives, halved cherry tomatoes and feta cheese cubes, and you will have made a nutritious dinner, which will thrill the whole family.

How to Make a Delicious Lamb and Feta Cheese Pizza

You will need:

For the Marinated Lamb -

• 12 oz lamb, cut into strips
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 3 teaspoons oregano
• 2 teaspoons soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice

For the Pizza Crust -

• 2 tablespoons instant yeast
• 1 1/2 cups warm water
• 4 cups cake flour
• Pinch each of oregano, basil, thyme, onions salt, chervil, garlic powder, and salt
• Pinch of freshly ground black pepper

For the Toppings -

• 1 onion, sliced thinly
• 3 oz mushrooms, sliced
• 6 oz sun dried tomatoes, chopped
• 4 oz Greek olives, pitted
• 13 oz feta cheese, crumbled
• 13 oz mozzarella, grated
• Olive oil, for frying

How to make it:

Put the lamb in a glass bowl. Combine the marinade ingredients and pour them over the meat. Mix well, cover, and marinate for 2 hours in the refrigerator. Pour the warm water into a bowl, sprinkle the yeast on top, and leave it for 5 minutes. Add half the flour and all the seasonings. Stir until you have a smooth batter. Add another cup of the flour and stir until you have a dough ball.

Keep adding more flour, until you have a non-sticky dough. Knead it for 5 minutes, then cover it and leave it somewhere warm to rise. Punch it down, divide it in half, and roll each half into a 12 inch round. Leave it for 15 minutes to rise again.

Drain the lamb and fry it over high heat in the olive oil, until it is cooked. Take it out of the pan and let it cool.

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F and grease 2 pizza pans or baking sheets. Put the dough circles on the pizza pans, pressing it until it covers the pans or baking sheets.

Arrange the lamb on top of the pizza crust, then the mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, olives and cheese. Bake for about 17 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the dough is cooked and golden brown.

The Best Marinated Lamb Pizza Recipe

We all have that favorite pizza place that makes absolutely the best pizza, if you close your eyes you can almost smell and taste it, now it conjures up such vivid images of the best tasting pizza imaginable. All Great pizzas have some things in common, no matter who makes your favorite pizza. These include two main things, get these right and you are most of the way towards the best pizza on earth. They are great pizza dough and a wonderfully rich, thick, and lively pizza sauce.

Whether you favor vegetarian pizza, meat lovers' pizza recipes, pepperoni pizza or another kind, you will find all the best recipes at GreatPizzaRecipes.com, along with pizza crust recipes, pizza tips and tricks and reviews of all the best pizza making equipment. Pizza is easy to make and you can make hundreds of different kinds, including healthy pizza.

Whether or not you use pizza making equipment, you will need the best pizza recipes for tasty results. You can find lots of easy pizza recipes at my wife's pizza website, including ideas for the tastiest pizza dough recipes, as well as the most mouthwatering meat pizzas, the healthiest vegetable pizzas and lots of pizza making tips and tricks.

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Vegetarian Pizza Recipe

With so many possibilities, vegetarian pizza recipes can suit every taste and are open to interpretation and creation. Experiment, enjoy, and share!

Whether you bake a lot of pizzas or are completely new to them, they are one of the most enjoyable and rewarding things to cool. Some pizza restaurants make terrible pizzas, being oily and full of fat, but when you bake them yourself, you will be able to control every aspect of them, especially if you're vegetarian and have your very own vegetable pizza recipe. You can add all of your favourite ingredients, and eliminate all of the fatty and greasy components that you dislike.

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Having the control over the ingredients also means you can use ones that you have grown yourself in your very own garden. Since vegetables are so common and easy to grow in your backyard, they are fantastic to add to your pizza recipe. The base itself is also quite easy to make as it is a simple dough. You can also modify it to suit your needs and likes, such as using wholemeal or gluten-free flour, which is sure to be able to suit every vegetarian. The pizza sauce is traditionally tomato based, but you can change that for whatever you like, even a jam if you're so inclined!

Vegetarian Pizza Recipe

As you can see, experimenting with pizzas and all sorts of combinations is definitely possible and limitless. As I've eluded to, you're not limited to vegetables and savoury pizzas. Although very uncommon, it is also possible to make sweet pizzas to serve as a desert. You can sweeten the dough a little by adding sugar, and you can add jams, chocolates, and lollies for toppings. Just make sure the lollies don't melt in the oven and make a good old mess!

Getting the kids involved over the school holidays is also a great idea and something they'll remember and share with their friends for a long time to come. With so many possibilities, vegetarian pizza recipes are all about what you make of them. Enjoy!

Vegetarian Pizza Recipe