National Pizza Day: Healthy Pizza, Your Way with the Granite City Good Food Homemade Pizza Guide!

Pizza is popular for a reason - it's tasty, easy, and everyone enjoys it!

However, pizza is often an expensive treat from restaurants and takeaways, and isn't known for always being the healthiest.

That's where homemade pizza comes in! Making your own pizza can be easy, simple, and delicious. With your own choice of toppings, any good homemade pizza can also be a great opportunity to reduce food waste, make healthy choices, and even offers you a chance to make a delicious meal in a way which can keep costs economical.

Like the sound of that, but not sure where to start?

Introducing the Homemade Pizza Guide!

The guide is a one-stop shop to plan your homemade pizza, with a clear theme- that, beyond the dough, there is no real recipe to follow!

The Base

Firstly, the base- the beginning of any good pizza!

Why not try our suggested favourites, two pizza dough recipes regularly used in CFINE Cooking Classes?

Firstly, a recipe which is friendly for beginners - 'Liz's Pizza' - a 2-ingredient dough using only greek yoghurt and self-raising flour:

The Beginner - 'Liz's 'Pizza

If you are looking for a bit more of a challenge- why not try the 'Classic Pizza Dough', which resembles a more traditional dough-making process:

The Intermediate - Classic Pizza Dough

The Best Bit - The Toppings!

Beyond the base you choose, this is your moment to have fun!

Toppings can be picked and chosen entirely on what you enjoy- prefer a plainer pizza? No problem! Looking for a more healthy option? go for it!

The key consideration here is to create a pizza you will enjoy.

A particular highlight for us, vegetables add amazing texture and flavour to your pizza. If you can, why not adding at least one extra veg choice to your pizza?

The full guide can be found below:

Have you made a discovered a new favourite pizza combination from the guide above? Share the pizza with us on social media, by tagging Granite City Good Food!