Bastelesel

The Rhineland is celebrating carnival and that means lots of parties with lots of food. Fingerfood and other light snacks are best to be prepared . The mini-pizza rounds and the pizza baguette are my favourites.

With a dough of 400g flour you’ll get 30 mini-pizza rounds and a loaf of about 45cm length.

Ingeredients for the dough:
400g flour, 1 bag of dry yeast, 1 tsp salt, appr. 200ml lukewarm water, 1-2 tsp cooking oil

Ingredients for the topping:
2 bell peppers, 1 small tin of corn, 1 hand full of rocket leaves, 100g parma ham diced, 200g sour cream , 1-2 tbsp of milk or cream, 1 tbsp corn starch, 1/2 ts salt, pepper, oregano, 100g grated  Emmental, Parmesan torn

Method:
Cover baking tray with parchment paper and preheat oven at 180°C convection oven or 200°C top-bottom heat.
Add flour, salt, yeast and some water to a bowl. Start kneading on a low speed with your food processor or the hook of your hand mixer. Add more water and cooking oil until dough is smooth. Cover bowl with a damp cloth and leave to rise for at least 20 minutes.
In the meantime wash bell pepper and rocket. Cut both into chunks. Drain corn and mix with pepper in a bowl. Mix rocket and diced parma ham in a bowl too.
Add sour cream, corn starch, milk or cream and spices to a bowl and stir well. Fold in half of the Emmental.

Kneed dough again after resting and roll out thinly. With a dessert ring of 6cm cut out 30 rounds and place them on 2 baking trays. Kneed remaining dough again and roll out a piece of 45 x 15 cm. Spread sour cream on rounds and rectangle. Give pepper-corn or rocket-ham-mixture on pizza rounds alternately. Spread remaining pepper-corn mixture together with remaining ham dice on the rectangle and spread some Emmental on top. Roll into a baguette shape and place on a baking tray.
Bake pizza rolls together in convection oven or successively with top-bottom heat for 15-20 minutes. Shortyl before the end of baking time give some Emmental on pepper-corn rounds and some Parmesan on rocket-ham rounds and finish baking. Remove from oven and place on wire rack with parchment paper.
Score pizza baguette with a sharp knife diagonally and bake for about 20 minutes.
Both are to be served warm but we do like them cold too when it comes far into the night.