Australia Day

This Australia Day was a day of cooking, eating, friends and backyard cricket. We hosted dinner at our house and invited our good friends over. I made 9 pizzas and the dough from scratch and also made a chocolate taut and bail feta dip! I was exhausted after so much baking but I really enjoyed it. We had 3 different pizzas

Ham and pineapple salami & cheese (for the kids)

Meatlovers

Tandoori chicken with rocket and cream

My favourite pizza was the tandoori chicken cause its so amazing and slightly spicy and I love me some spice!

For dessert I made a Chocolate Taut with cream and frozen raspberries and my friend Erica made lamington macarons.

I had so much fun playing backyard cricket and I think I played pretty well considering I was in a dress! My dress is from my favourite local store in Bundaberg called Haight and Ashbury, my ring is from Samantha Wills and my earrings are my mothers.

Here is the recipe I use to make the pizza bases, it usually makes about 2 medium size pizzas. I usually double the recipe but this time I tripled it to cater for 14 people!

Amys Pizza Bases 

375 ml warm water

2 tsp dried yeast

pinch caster sugar

4 cups plain flour

1 tsp salt

1/2 bottle dried rosemary leaves

1/4 cup olive oil

1 Mix yeast, water and sugar-sit for 5 minutes till frothy.

2 Mix flour, salt and rosemary- add yeast mixture and add oil.

3 Knead on a floured surface for 10 minutes till smooth and elastic.

4 Let rise in an oiled, covered bowl for 30 minutes.

5 Roll out and top with delicious toppings

6 Cook for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees celsius.

 Tandoori Chicken Pizza

*Makes enough for 1 pizza

125ml Philly light cream for cooking

1 tbsp tandoori paste

1 chicken fillet, thinly sliced

1 Amys pizza Bases (recipe above)

1 tbsp tomato paste

1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce

1/2 red onion, sliced

20g fresh rocket

1 Combine 2 tbsp Philly with tandoori paste then add chicken and marinate for  30 minutes in fridge.

2 Roll out the Pizza Dough on a floured surface to form an oval shaped base.

3 Combine tomato paste and sweet chilli sauce and spread evenly over base.

4 Top with onion and cooked tandoori chicken.

5 Bake pizza in fan forced oven at 180 degrees for 15 minutes.

6 top with rocket and spoon over dollops of Philly.

7 Enjoy your AMAZING pizza!

Chocolate Taut 

300g dark chocolate

200g butter

2 tsp coffe

1 1/2 cup brown sugar

1 1/3 cup almond meal

6 eggs separated

1 Whisk egg whites.

2 Melt chocolate and butter in separate bowl to egg whites.

3 Add coffee, sugar and almond meal to melted chocolate and butter. Mix well.

4 Add egg yolks, 1 at a time.

5 Fold in egg whites.

6 Pour into greased and lined baking dishes and bake for 45 minutes at 180 degrees on fan forced oven.

7 Remove from oven, let cool for 15 minutes.

8 Remove from baking dishes and top with dollop cream and frozen berries.

If you try these recipes at home please post a picture or Instagram a photo of your creations with the hashtag #Ausdaybakingwithchels

or tell me what you got up to on your Australia Day and what you had to eat! I would love to know!

love Chels xx