Brixton Pizza

Name: Brixton Pizza
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Jamaica
Ingredients: salt and black pepper; 300 g jar tomato pizza topping; 650 g (1 lb 7 ot) butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and cut into 2 cm (¾ in) slices; 2 tomatoes, halved; 2 hot red chillies (ideally Scotch Bonnet), deseeded and finely sliced; 2 red onions, cut into wedges; 250 ml (9 fl oz) lukewarm water; 6 tbsp olive oil; 1½ tsp salt; 400 g (14 oz) strong plain flour, plus extra for dusting the work surface; 150 g (5½ oz) baby spinach; olive oil, to oil the baking sheet, if using; 15 g (½ oz) dried yeast; 250 g (9 oz) baby aubergines, halved; 2 × 125 g packets mozzarella, drained and sliced; 2 red peppers, deseeded and quartered

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

Yes, you can make pizza at home! You will need a very hot oven, preheated well in advance. Use an ordinary-sized aubergine, cut into chunks, for the topping if you can’t find baby ones.

Ingredients

15 g (½ oz) dried yeast
250 ml (9

Americas
Jamaica
Main course
Dinner
Vegetarian
Spicy
Caribbean

Method

Begin by ‘sponging’ the yeast. Dissolve it in a small bowl with 1½ tbsp. of the water and mix in 2 tbsp. of the flour. Stir to make a smooth paste. Cover with a cloth and leave to