OLIVES

Home Preserved Olives.
The olive tree is having a rest this year, no olives-no harvest.  Just as well, it can be very tiring to care and to preserve.  But the last year harvest was preserved, and now it is ready.  With the olives,  a tasty pizza was baked for the family.

Home preserved olives, dressed with herbs and red capsicum to serve

 Home baked rolls and pizza to celebrate the home preserved olives.

Recipe for The Pizza

No mozzarella, instead I used tasty Cheddar and Parmesan cheese for the topping.  Other toppings were tomato sauce, fresh tomato, red capsicum, red onion, the home preserved olives and prosciutto.

The dough:

Ingredients:

325 g plain flour

7 gr dry yeast

A pinch of salt, and an of pinch sugar

1 cup warm water and a dash of oil

Method:

In a large mixing bowl, place all dry ingredients, and mix them together

Add in the water and oil mixture at once, and mix quickly to make dough

Place the dough onto a floured board, and knead it until smooth about 8 minutes

Place the dough on an oiled bowl, cover it with plastic and keep in a warm place to proof until double in bulk about one hour or more.

When it is double in bulk, it’s ready for rolling to prepare for the pizza.

Bake the pizza in a hot oven at 210 degrees C (fan forced) for 13 minutes.

The ingredients, first stage of kneading, proofing until double in bulk.

 Pizza preparation, from rolling out the dough to the baking 

Topping:

Using baking tin instead of cooking on a pizza stone

Placing the round money onto the tin and adding - spreading tomato sauce

Putting all the topping and ready to bake to the hot oven - 210 degrees C (fan forced) for 13 minutes.

Freshly baked pizza

Serving Pizza with fresh herbs, salad leaves and poached ricotta cheese with herbs.

I am happy with my preserved olives, it was not a big harvest but enough for the family to enjoy, the flavour just right, there's no bitterness. A successful process of preserving.
The pizza was good, even though it was not a traditional pizza (it's as you like it) and the marinated olives were complemented by my home baked crusty rolls.  Definitely, I made the best of the olives harvest-the home preserved olives.

Pizza night for winter may be a good idea, give the recipe a go, and have fun, try any topping as you like.

I will be back to post Javanese cooking soon.


Until Next Post
Susy