Campfire Pizza

By Mel Evans

Today I have been asked to share one of our absolute favourite campfire recipes, Flat Bread Pizza.  Not only is the process of cooking this pizza lots of fun, but the end product is delicious too.  Best yet the pizza base only requires a few ingredients.  100g of plain flour, 1 teaspoon of oil and a pinch of salt makes enough dough for an individual pizza base.  Just add water by eye until you have a soft dough.  If you add too much water, just add a little more flour until you are happy with the consistency.

We like to allow every child to make their own portion and experience every part of the process.

Once everyone has a portion of dough these can be rolled out with a rolling pin and put into a hot frying pan greased with a little oil.

This recipe works just as well in the kitchen if you can’t get outside.

When one side is browned you turn the base over and add tomato sauce, cheese and pizza toppings.  You then drape a piece of foil over the top of the pizza to create enough heat to melt the cheese.  Once the base has browned on the other side, the pizza should be ready.   If the cheese hasn’t melted enough for your liking you can remove the pizza from the pan, but leave it wrapped in the foil and the residual heat should finish the job.

These pizzas are cooking on a pizza stone on a campfire, but a frying pan will do the job too.

There is nothing better than making pizza with a group of children in the middle of the woods, but this recipe is versatile.  You could cook it on a fire pit in the back garden or inside in your kitchen.  If the tomato sauce isn’t available how about making some Wild Garlic pesto instead?  Maybe you could try a sweet pizza topped with Nutella and marshmallows?

We don’t have any tomato sauce at the moment so we made breakfast pizza with baby chard and fried eggs.

If you decide to try this we would love to see what you make!