Wild Pizza 1

Who doesn’t like a pizza?  Here’s a recipe for making your own  wild pizza in the woods.

Ingredients for the topping

•   Hogweed, roughly chopped
•   Nettles, blanched and refreshed in cold water,   squeezed dry and chopped
•   Ground ivy, finely chopped
•   Ground elder, finely chopped
•   Ribwort plantain, finely chopped
•   Wild marjoram, finely chopped
•   Ramsons, finely chopped
•   Grated cheese
•   2tbsp of tomato puree
•   2 large tomatoes
•   Olive oil
•   Salt and pepper

Ingredients for the wild pizza base

•   2125g of self raising flour
•   55g of butter
•   7 – 8 tbsp of milk
•   ½ tsp of salt

How to make the wild pizza topping

•   Heat some olive oil in a pan and add all the   weeds and herbs and fry for a couple of minutes
•   Add the tomato puree and season with salt and   pepper
•   Spread the mixture evenly over the base
•   Place slices of tomato on top
•   Drizzle with olive oil
•   Sprinkle on the grated cheese
•   Place in a hot dustbin oven for 20 to 30   minutes, checking after 20 minutes
•   Keep the fire going under the dustbin oven to   maintain heat

How to make the base

•   Rub the flour, salt and butter together in a   mixing bowl until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs
•   Add the milk and stir together into a smooth   dough
•   Cut the dough into 6 and roll into balls
•   Roll out into discs
•   Lay on a greased baking sheet

In this photo you can see a selection of pizzas cooked by Nicola in the woods on a 5 Day Bushcraft Course.

This wild pizza is just one of the great dishes that we often cook on our 1 day foraging course. You can see photos taken on this and all of our other courses on our Facebook page.