Who doesn’t like a pizza? Here’s a recipe for making your own wild pizza in the woods.
Ingredients for the topping
- Â Hogweed, roughly chopped
- Â Nettles, blanched and refreshed in cold water, Â squeezed dry and chopped
- Â Ground ivy, finely chopped
- Â Ground elder, finely chopped
- Â Ribwort plantain, finely chopped
- Â Wild marjoram, finely chopped
- Â Ramsons, finely chopped
- Â Grated cheese
- Â 2tbsp of tomato puree
- Â 2 large tomatoes
- Â Olive oil
- Â Salt and pepper
Ingredients for the wild pizza base
- Â 2125g of self raising flour
- Â 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
- Â Spread the mixture evenly over the base
- Â Place slices of tomato on top
- Â Drizzle with olive oil
- Â Sprinkle on the grated cheese
- Â Place in a hot dustbin oven for 20 to 30 Â 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
- Â Cut the dough into 6 and roll into balls
- Â Roll out into discs
- Â 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.
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