Finding a quick, easy and affordable meal to throw together in the middle of the week can be difficult, especially after a long day in the office.
Rather than resorting to a microwave meal or a soggy supermarket pizza, you could try to make Nigella Lawson’s naan bread pizza which can be made using store cupboard ingredients.
The recipe, which is from Nigella’s book NIGELLA EXPRESS, can be made in just three steps.
Nigella said of the recipe: “I beg you to keep the wherewithal for this fantastic instant snack-cum-supper in your store cupboard.
“It’s a lifesaver! I’ve given my topping of preference; feel free to play about and make your own.
“All I feel strongly is that while shop-bought pizzas are vile, packet naans when heated, are not.”
Fans of the recipe said the recipe is “so easy” to make. One person wrote: “These are so easy and a winner with everyone including my five-year-old who can be fussy in regards to what she will eat.
“I have some sauce left over which I have frozen. This could become a family favourite.”
Another wrote: “I make these most weekends for my family, they are a winner and so easy to make. I vary toppings, adding sweetcorn, tuna, diced ham or leftover gammon, pineapple, tinned mushroom etc.
“Make them into a meal by adding salad and garlic bread, [you] will never buy frozen pizza again!”
How to make Nigella Lawson’s naan bread pizza
Ingredients:
- One shop-bought naan bread
- Two teaspoons tomato pulp (chopped and sieved tomatoes from a jar – or other tomato sauce)
- 70 grams drained mixed mushroom antipasto (from a jar)
- 75 grams roughly chopped fontina cheese or gruyere
- Three stalks thyme
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 220°C/200°C Fan/gas mark 7/425ºF. Put a naan bread onto a lined baking tray.
2. Spread tomato pulp or sauce over the naan before topping with the mushrooms. Sprinkle over the cheese and add the thyme leaves.
3. Bake for five minutes or until the cheese is bubbling and melted.
