Heavenly Spelt Pizza

Today I took time off from work to get home a little bit earlier than usual... Not to sit down on the couch and watch tv immediately after coming home....Nope, not this time! I have had pizza on my mind for a couple of days now and was fed up with the usual recipe, so now it was about time to try a new one. With half a bag of spelt flour left from baking buns with carrot and sunflower seeds, I had to try making my own spelt pizza base. Then I challenged myself to make tomato sauce from scratch as well. Well....the result was outright scrumptious!!!

Heavenly Spelt Pizza
( 1 baking tray)

- for the pizza base:
15 gr fresh yeast
1,5 dl water, lukewarm
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp coarse sea salt
5 dl spelt flour

- for the tomato sauce:
olive oil
1 onion, diced
1 clove of garlic, diced
1 red chili, deseeded and diced
400 gr canned tomatoes
2 tbsp tomato purée
oregano / basil / thyme / salt / pepper

- for the topping:
shredded cheese (I used Jarlsberg)
slices of pan fried bacon
slices of ham
red pepper,diced
cherry tomatoes, halved
sliced mushrooms
fresh basil

1.) Dissolve the fresh yeast into the lukewarm water in a large bowl.
2.) Add the olive oil and sea salt.
3.) Add the spelt flour bit by bit, until it forms a non-sticky elastic dough.
4.) Set aside to rise for about 20 minutes. Start making the tomato sauce in the meantime.

5.) Pour a couple of tbsp of olive oil into a hot medium-sized cooking pot.
6.) Add the diced onion, garlic and red chili and fry them, but don't let them turn brown.
7.) Add the canned tomatoes, tomato purée and herbs to taste, and stir well.
8.) Turn down the heat and let it simmer until you have a thick sauce.

9.) Use a rolling pin to turn the dough into a pizza base and transfer it to a baking tray lined with baking parchment.
10.) Add the tomato sauce.
11.) Add the cheese first, and then the rest of the topping.
12.) Bake the pizza for 10 minutes on the middle/upper rack of the oven, which has been preheated to 250 degrees Celsius.
13.) Scatter fresh brasil over the pizza and serve.

Enjoy!!!