#165: Ramekin Pizza: recipe#120

We were watching the discovery travel Channel the other day and featured was the America's Best Pizza places. Amongst the many places that were considered America's best was a small place where pizza were served in bowls... they were known as the croc pot pizza. Off course no recipe was provided, but I thought today, I would experiment to make my own version of croc pot pizza and I came up with ramekin pizza because ramekins happen to be the smallest bowls I can find in the house. So let's cook..

Ingredients: makes 6 ramekins pizza
pizza base:
11g yeast+ 1/4 water -stir to combine
1 and 1/4 warm water
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp salt
2 eggs
5 cups all purpose flour

meat sauce
250 g minced beef
1/4 cup tomato paste
1/2 onion- chopped
2 cloves garlic-chopped
mixed Italian herb
cracked black pepper
1/2 tsp powdered cinnamon
chicken stock to taste

others:
cheese- preferably the sliced cheese
cooked sausages- cut into 5 per sausage
mushrooms- optional

steps:
base: mix all ingredients except 3 cups of flour, stir thoroughly to combine, then only add in the rest of the flour... set aside for 45 minutes, to allow the yeast to undergo fermentation, and the dough double its size.

sauce: In a pan mix everything and simmer till the meat is cooked, the onion and garlic had softened and the gravy thickened

to Assemble:
-Put slices of cheese at the bottom of the ramekin, then add in the sauce and lastly the meat sauce, about 1 large spoon. repeat to the other 5 ramekins
- divide the dough into 6 equal size.
- Take one portion of the dough to form a ball. Flatten the dough and cover the top of the ramekin with the dough. Repeat this step for the other five dough.
- bake the ramekin pizza in a preheated oven at 200 C until the dough turns golden brown. The ramekin will look like mushroom. *smile*

To serve
On a plate, turn the ramekin upside down, remove ramekin from the dough and sauce, scoop all the sauce and cheese in the ramekin and serve hot.

Note: I have to share my pizza with Dayini because I couldn't finish it. It's way too much for me. One ramekin pizza equivalent to 3 large pizza slices.