Cooking with Colm: Chorizo, Roast Butternut Squash and Spring Onion Pizza

During the first lockdown, I had a lot of fun playing around with and developing new recipes. I developed a lovely new pizza dough recipe and a glorious pizza sauce to go with it. At first, I baked my pizzas in my oven, on a pizza stone. They were great, but a domestic oven can never really achieve the kind of crust you get in a proper pizza oven. So I spent a fair bit of the summer lusting after a pizza oven…well no more. Here is a game-changing cooking method for homemade pizza. I guarantee you this will taste better than your average takeaway pizza. You just have to try this, I have some serious food critics in my house, but this pizza blew them away.

Ideally use strong white flour for this, but if you don’t have any, plain flour will be fine. You don’t need any special equipment, just a mixing bowl, a cast iron or heavy-based frying pan and a grill.