This is my super tasty, homemade pepperoni pizza on a budget! You can’t get better than fresh, homemade pizza! The greatest budget food known to man! Who doesn’t like pizza…!?
Pepperoni pizza is not only my favourite pizza, its the worlds most popular pizza and the pizza I compare all other pizzas to! You just can’t beat it!
This homemade pizza dough recipe is a beginners recipe. Really easy and will always turn out amazing! Iv included my quick fresh pizza sauce here too but check out this page if you want more info on that!
There is no trick to making budget pepperoni pizza. Homemade pizza is cheap, easy food and quite often mostly from the pantry.
How much does this budget pepperoni pizza cost?
Having a quick look at the prices of ingredients for this recipe…this time I used Tesco…
Prices as of 05/06/2022
| Tesco Strong White Bread Flour 1.5Kg | £1.00 (0.34 used in this recipe) |
| Saxa Table Salt 750G | £1.05 (0.01 used in this recipe) |
| Tesco Dried Yeast 56G 0.95 | £0.95 (0.11 used in this recipe) |
| Tesco Olive Oil 1L | £3.25 (0.05 used in this recipe) |
| Granulated Sugar 1Kg | £0.65 (0.02 used in this recipe) |
| Tesco Italian Plum Peeled Tomatoes 400G | 0.45 (0.45 used in this recipe) |
| Tesco Garlic Each | 0.25 (0.04 used in this recipe) |
| Tesco Dried Oregano 14G Jar | 0.70 (0.05 used in this recipe) |
| Tesco Tomato Ketchup 555G | 0.65 (0.05 used in this recipe) |
| Tesco Mozzarella Grated 250G | 2.50 (2.50 used in this recipe) |
| Tesco Pizza Pepperoni 120G | 0.85 (0.85 used in this recipe) |
This whole meal comes out at £4.47 with each pizza costing £1.12
A few questions…
Where does pepperoni come from?
Pepperoni is a sausage made from a mixture of pork and beef with a specific meat to fat ratio, spices added for flavour and lactic acid for fermentation.
Is there a no yeast recipe?
Yeast is almost the most important ingredient to all of this pizza making. The explosive and delicious bubbles in the dough will not exist without it! Yeast exists in the recipe to make it rise. It is possible to make a pizza without it tho…
Can I freeze?
You can most certainly freeze pizza! great for a snack for the kids…especially as its homemade! Wrap individually in foil in large ziplock bags. To reheat, place the individual slices on a baking tray and cook in the oven for 10-12 minutes untiil crispy and golden…again. The pizza will last 1-2 months in the freezer perfectly fine.
Right, let’s cook!
This will make 4 good sized pizzas…
Ingredients for the dough…
500g strong white bread flour
2 tsp fine salt
7g or one sachet of dried yeast
2tbsp or a couple of good glugs of olive oil
2tsp sugar
300ml warm water
Ingredients for the pizza sauce…
1 can tinned tomatoes
1 garlic clove
oregano
1 tsp sugar
Squeeze of ketchup
Salt and pepper to taste
Toppings…
pepperoni – 5 to 9 slices per pizza
Pre grated mozzarella – 50g to 60g per pizza
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To make the dough…
- Put your flour and salt in a big bowl, give it a little mix and make a well in the centre…
- Put your yeast, olive oil and sugar into your jug of warm water, give a mix and leave for 30 seconds…
- Now pour your water mixture into the flour bowl and slowly mix and bring together…
- Once together – knead the dough until smooth and supple – around 10 minutes…
- Place your dough in a bowl and cover with a towel until doubled in size…
- Knock back and divide the dough into 4 balls…
- Cover and leave for another 30-40 mins to prove until doubled in size
To make the sauce…
While your dough is sitting you can also whiz up the pizza sauce. Put all the ingredients for the sauce into a jug and blend to a smooth consistency…
To shape your pizza…
To shape your pizzas take a dough ball and press with your hands and knuckles from the centre and work the dough outwards. Do this until you have your desired size pizza, about £1 coin thickness. Leave a small rim of dough on the outside of the pizza unpressed…this will rise and become golden and delicious!
To cook your pizza…
My preferred version these days, if im cooking indoors, is to start the pizza in a dry, hot frying pan and then after a couple of minutes put it under a really hot grill…
- Put your grill on max and get a frying pan on a medium heat…
- Get your rolled out dough into the frying pan as you would like, then spread your sauce on, add your cheese and then add your toppings…
- After a couple of minutes you can transfer the frying pan to finish under the grill…
Super easy and super cheap!
