How to make homemade lean pizza in the oven at home? TOP 4 recipes with photos and culinary secrets. Video recipes.
Italian traditional pizza is loved and cooked all over the world. It is a cake made from yeast dough, greased with tomato sauce, and covered with a filling of cheese and other products. It seems that this is an unacceptable dish during Lent. However, after studying the history of this treat, it turns out that earlier pizza was cooked without cheese and without tomatoes. We suggest you learn how to make lean pizza at home. Indeed, according to the canons of the church, during the period of fasting, you cannot eat products of animal origin. But this does not mean that at this time it is necessary to give up your favorite product. In this article, you will find useful recommendations for making lean pizza dough, as well as TOP-4 recipes for dishes with different delicious fillings.
Culinary secrets and tips
- Lean pizza is baked in the oven in 2 ways - on a baking sheet or in a frying pan.
- You can roll out the pizza crust with a rolling pin or place the dough on a baking sheet and stretch it evenly over the entire surface with your fingers.
- The dough can be baked in the oven without filling until half cooked, so that a thin crust forms on top. Then put the filling on it and continue baking further. You can also bake the dough right away with the filling.
- The average baking time of lean pizza in the oven is 30 minutes at a temperature of 250 ° C. However, the time may vary depending on the thickness of the dough, the properties of the oven and the filling used.
- The dough can be thin or thick. A thin cake will be baked in 30 minutes, a thick one - in 1 hour, while the temperature must be reduced to 220 ° C.
Lean pizza toppings
- There are many options for lean toppings for homemade pizza. These are all types of mushrooms and fish, any vegetables, raw or fried, capers, anchovies, olives, lean sauces, any herbs, spices and herbs. There are also recipes for lean pizza with fruits and berries.
- Since lean pizza always lacks cheese, the filling can dry out and burn when baked without it. To prevent this from happening, pre-fry the products so that they are soaked in oil. Although today you can find lean cheese on sale.
- The most satisfying and delicious lean pizza will come out with eggplant. They must be cut into thick slices and fried in a pan. They are combined with tomato sauce, fried onions, garlic, chili, fresh tomatoes.
- Juicy and aromatic pizza stuffed with several types of onions: white, red and leek. Chop the onion into large rings and fry in oil with garlic. After 10 minutes of baking, it will completely lose its sharp taste, acquire sweetness, while retaining its juiciness.
- Unusual pizza made from several varieties of olives. It is better to use real Greek olives: black, green, pink-purple. The bitter taste of olives should be balanced with juicy foods such as tomatoes.
- For mushroom filling, use different varieties of mushrooms. Combine the filling made from fresh, dried and pickled mushrooms. For better absorption, add finely chopped chili peppers and onions to the filling.
- For green pizza toppings, use plenty of fresh herbs. For this role, wild garlic, spinach, Swiss chard, green onions are well suited.
- The simplest and fastest filling for lean pizza is a frozen vegetable mixture fried in a large amount of oil with pepper and spices. You can buy it at the supermarket. Any vegetables are suitable for the filling: broccoli, green beans, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, zucchini, carrots, green peas, bell peppers.
- For a sweet lean pizza, put jam, jam, baked apple puree, apples or pears fried in oil, soaked raisins, dried apricots and prunes on the dough base, sprinkle with cinnamon, crushed nuts, pour with honey, etc.
Lean pizza dough
Speaking of lean pizza dough, a monotonous and tasteless dish is immediately presented, which can hardly be called a hearty meal. However, it is unsurpassedly tasty, and also low in calories.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 235 kcal.
- Servings - 3-4 thin pizza bases or one fluffy
- Cooking time - 2 hours 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Flour - 300 g
- Semolina - 100 g
- Corn starch - 100 g
- Olive oil - 2 tablespoons
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Warm water - 300 ml
- Sugar - 0.5 tsp
- Dry yeast - 7 g (1 sachet)
Making Lean Pizza Dough:
- In warm water, mix yeast with sugar and butter, and leave for 10-15 minutes in a warm place to form a foam on the surface.
- Sift flour with starch through a fine sieve and mix with semolina and salt.
- Make a small depression in the flour mass in the middle and pour the yeast mixture into it.
- Using a fork, pick up the flour from the edges in a circular motion, mixing with the liquid.
- When the flour combines with the liquid, knead the dough with your hands to prevent it from sticking to your hands.
- Roll it into a ball, place in a bowl, cover with a towel and put in a warm place. After 1-1.5 hours, the dough will double.
- Place the matched dough on a work surface sprinkled with flour and roll it out with a rolling pin to the desired size.
- Place the base on a paper-lined baking sheet, cover with a towel and place on the stove over the preheated oven for 20 minutes to proof.
Mushroom pizza with tomatoes and herbs
Lean pizza in the oven with mushroom filling, tomatoes and herbs is very quick to prepare. The appetizer is delicious, so the version of this dish will appeal to everyone, not just the fasting ones.
Ingredients:
- Warm water - 1 tbsp.
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Fresh yeast - 20 g
- Wheat flour - 3 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil - 5 tablespoons
- Champignons - 300 g
- Onions - 1-2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons for frying
- Tomatoes - 1-2 pcs. depending on the size
- Green onions or dill - to taste
Cooking lean mushroom pizza at home:
- Dissolve salt, sugar and yeast in warm water (37 ° C).
- Add vegetable oil with sifted flour to the products and knead the dough so that it is soft.
- Cover the dough with a napkin and place it in a warm, draft-free place for one hour to triple in volume.
- Sit down the risen and airy dough with your hands, place it on a greased baking sheet and distribute evenly with oily hands.
- For the mushroom filling, wash, dry and cut into thin slices. Peel the onions, wash and chop into half rings.
- In a frying pan, fry the mushrooms and onions in vegetable oil until tender. Season with salt and pepper.
- Wash the tomatoes, dry and cut into slices.
- Spread the filling (tomatoes, mushrooms and onions) evenly on the dough and place in a hot oven for 20 minutes at 180 ° C.
- Sprinkle the finished pizza with chopped green onions.
Vegetable pizza
An excellent recipe for making a vegan, fluffy and airy pizza with vegetables. The dough turns out to be rosy and airy, and the filling is an amazing combination of vegetables and olives.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 3 tbsp.
- Warm water - 1 tbsp.
- Salt - a pinch
- Sugar - 1 tsp
- Olive oil - 2-3 tablespoons
- Yeast (fresh) - 30 -40 g
- Tomatoes - 2-3 pcs.
- Sweet red pepper - 1 pc.
- Eggplant - 1 pc.
- Bulb onions - 1 pc.
- Pitted olives - 0.5 cans
- Greens (parsley, dill) - 4-5 twigs each
- Spices to taste
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Salt to taste
Cooking Vegetable Lean Pizza:
- For lean yeast dough, dissolve the yeast in warm water (37 ° C).
- Pour the sifted flour into a separate bowl, make a depression in it and pour in the diluted yeast and butter.
- Knead a soft and elastic dough. Sprinkle it with flour, cover with a clean towel and leave in a warm place for half an hour.
- Put the matched dough in a baking dish, greased with vegetable oil and shape into a cake with your hands. Cover it with a towel and leave to rise for 15 minutes.
- Send the dough to a preheated oven up to 180 ° C and bake for 10-15 minutes.
- For the filling, cut the washed tomatoes into rings, sweet peppers into strips, olives into slices.
- Peel the onion and cut into half rings, eggplant into bars. In a skillet in vegetable oil, fry the onion and eggplant until almost cooked.
- Layer all the filling ingredients on top of the pizza cake, and top with the olives.
- Bake the pizza in the oven at 190 ° C for 20 minutes. Sprinkle the prepared lean vegetable pizza with chopped herbs.
Yeast-free dough pizza
Making lean pizza without yeast yourself, at home, is a snap. Prepare a lean pizza dough in a frying pan, which must have a thin bottom so that it bakes well.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1, 5 tbsp.
- Warm water - 0.5 tbsp.
- Salt - a pinch
- Olive oil - 1 tablespoon
- Sun-dried tomatoes - 1 pc.
- Basil - a few leaves
- Garlic - 2 wedges
- Wine vinegar - 1 tsp
- Fennel and cumin - 1 tsp
Preparation from yeast-free dough:
- Combine flour with salt, pour in warm water and add olive oil.
- Knead to a homogeneous elastic dough and transfer it to a floured work surface.
- Sprinkle flour on top of the dough and roll out with a rolling pin into a thin layer the size of the pan.
- Grease the pan with a thin layer of olive oil and put the dough in it, pressing it against the sides and bottom to form the sides.
- Chop sun-dried tomatoes, basil and peeled garlic with a blender. Add vinegar and salt.
- Pour the resulting sauce onto the base and smooth evenly.
- Sprinkle with crushed fennel and caraway seeds on top and place a skillet of lean pizza without yeast under a hot grill for 4-5 minutes.
