This video from Hayes Garden World, featuring Richard Holden the Gourmet BBQ chef shows you how to cook a Ham and Cheese Pizza on the Weber Pizza stone. We have also cooked the same pizza on the Alfa Pizza Oven to make a comparison between the two different cooking methods. (Watch the video showing how to cook the same pizza on the Alfa).
Roll your pizza dough until fairly thin then spread on your tomato sauce; Richard has made his own from passata, dried Mediterranean herbs, salt, ground black pepper, a little olive oil and some brown sugar. Make sure you don’t go too close to the edge otherwise it will flow off and stick the pizza to the bottom of the oven. You can top the pizza with anything you like, just make sure any meat you use is cooked as the pizza is only on the stone for 5 - 7 minutes and this is not sufficient time to cook raw meat. We have done a simple ham and cheese pizza but used really good quality ingredients to elevate it to another level. We have used Serrano ham and buffalo mozzarella and added some olives and fresh basil leaves, and finally a little drizzle of olive oil.
The Pizza Stone should already be on the pre-heated BBQ. To bring this charcoal BBQ up to temperature Richard and Ian used a full Chimney Starter of Weber Briquettes, (watch the video showing how to light a charcoal BBQ using the Chimney starter), as a high temperature is required to cook the pizza. The BBQ temperature should be around 250C, as the Pizza Stone heats to a further 100C this should be 350C and ideal for pizza. You would cook the pizza in the Alfa wood fired oven at around 450C.
Cook the pizza with the lid down for 4 - 5 minutes then check it is cooked; just lift the edge and if the base has browned then it is cooked. Before eating drizzle with a little bit more olive oil so when you bite into it you don’t burn the roof of your mouth.
If you have any questions about this dish or anything else BBQ related just call in to The Barbecue Shop located within our main store here at Ambleside. Otherwise get in touch via the comments box at the end of any blog article or through facebook or twitter.
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Watch the video showing how to cook this pizza on the Alfa Pizza Oven:
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Click this link to watch the video showing how to light a charcoal BBQ using the Weber Chimney starter:
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