MINI PIZZA 2

- Hello everyone, it's Barry here.
Welcome to My Virgin Kitchen.
I hope you are well.
Today we are making another mini food.
If you've missed any of the other mini foods to date,
there's a link up here and down (mumbling).
♫ Fee Lo
For you to check, and watch.
Grab the popcorn, all that stuff.
Everyone loves a good playlist, and so do I.
So, do check that out, but today,
we are doing,
we're revisiting, actually, a mini food.
The very first video I did on mini food was a mini pizza
years ago and I get so many requests for it,
even still now to make a mini pizza.
Even though I've done it,
I think I was gonna sort of tweak it a bit
by making this time a classic mini Margherita pizza,
so hopefully you'll enjoy it,
it's 7 AM, I need some coffee.
The wall in this house is about to be knocked down
any day now, we've got builders arriving today,
hence me filming so early, so
hopefully going forward you'll see the kitchen
looking revamped on the next mini food.
Fingers crossed.
Let's do it.
Yeah.
So, as always I have my mini food set in my hamper
right here.
There is the knock off Winnie the Pooh plate,
which many of you tweet me and say you have too,
which is pretty cool.
I have a rolling pin which I'll need today,
and some various other bits and bobs.
These other bowls will come in handy,
'cause the first thing we need to do
and the reason we're also starting so early,
is try and make a dough and make it prove,
which should be awesome on a mini scale.
Now take this in, folks.
This might be the last time you ever see
this tap here, but anyhow,
first thing I'm gonna do, this little jug thing,
we need some warm water for our dough.
Literally do a trickle.
(chuckling)
Amazing.
The dough is gonna be made in this thing,
so we're gonna put
our flour in first.
This is double O flour folks,
the secret agent flour,
and that'll make reference to a video
that you haven't seen yet, that's coming out very soon,
where I make a Nutella and Ricotta
pizza donut ring, it's amazing.
So keep an eye out for that one.
Literally a speck of salt,
so like two or three flakes.
This is some fast action dried yeast.
Oh yeah, germs.
And of course our warm water,
which is gonna get that yeast going.
Hey, and that goes with our flour.
Now, gonna mixy mixy mix.
So,
this thing never lets me down.
(groaning) Come on.
As the rolling pin sits very patiently in the back there.
Oh, I'm using it the wrong way around.
We're gonna mix it together.
(humming)
Just get it incorporated first of all.
Oh wow.
And you can see the bubbles form in it already
where that yeast is going,
"Wow, I'm alive!
"I love warm water, baby!"
Alright, so that (laughing)
water has all gone and absorbed into the flour.
I've got this big doughy,
well not really big is it,
in a mini food video but
a lumpy, doughy ball.
Let's knead it.
Boom.
Down it goes.
Alright, we have got loads of flour there.
We're gonna just knead this. (giggling)
Oh, wow.
'Kay, so this is just like pushing some more heat in it,
getting that yeast working even more,
and hopefully you'll get a nice, smooth dough.
Normally when I make dough, I slam it down,
but that's not really having the same effect,
so I'm just really pushing it and working it together.
It's getting smoother, though.
I'm feeling it, I'm feeling it, baby.
Alright, I am relatively happy with that.
Let's see if we can get it approved.
Love this chopping board, which is very kindly sent in
and thank you for everyone that does still send me
in bits for these mini food videos.
So, nice new clean bowl
in our little jug thing
here, little jug thing.
We have got some oil,
just to lubricate the bottom
to make it easy to get out.
I don't think we're gonna have a struggle
with that, anyhow.
But, let's sit the dough in there, alright,
get some clear film.
There we go, so let's put that on there.
We are now gonna leave that,
so I have got some dogs that need a walk.
Hello, doggies.
I guess there's your pug pause in your video.
Take them out,
and let's see what the dough looks like.
(jazzy instrumental music)
Back from walking the dogs.
I randomly knocked on my Mum's house,
'cause she only lives 'round the corner,
but she was still in bed.
You know, I wish I had that lifestyle.
Check this out.
Look at that, folks, can you see it?
There's little bubbles from the yeast,
it's gotten all furry and stuff.
It was that perfect round ball before.
Cha-Ching!
I gotta smell, I need to smell it.
Oh my gosh, yeah it smells like beer.
Yeasty, baby.
Yes.
So, let's get the dough down.
Oh wow, it's so much more manoeuvrable now,
it feels so much lighter.
Oh yeah.
I might not actually need all that amount,
but we're gonna use our mini rolling pin.
Oh yeah, that's a big pizza.
I could make a few out of that.
Don't try and spin it.
Gonna use the Winnie the Pooh plate as a
sort of template to
get a little bit nearer to the maximum.
There we go, oh there we go!
Look at that!
I kind of want it to look a bit more rustic-y though,
but,
let's do it again.
Want it nice and thin, don't we?
(humming)
Just kinda scratching at it like a
mini food cat.
Right, happy with that.
This is a mozzarella ball,
and it's pretty big.
It's way too big for our pizza,
so what we're gonna have to do is take
little, teeny slithers.
I mean even bits like that are probably too big,
but just teeny little pieces
that we can put on the pizza.
I think the best bet
is to just slice out a wedge like so,
and we'll just chop that up.
Alrighty, a selection of mozzarella for you.
Now, this (chuckling) is a tin of plum tomatoes.
So there's literally a whole plum tomato in there,
can you see that?
I'm just gonna.
Dug it into it, straight in the tin like that,
that'll do.
I'm gonna put it in here,
little bit of the sauce and juice in it as well.
I'm gonna chop it up in there, somehow.
Just realised a few little bits
are actually missing from the mini food kit,
they're ordered specially for these mini foods.
I think Mrs. Barry's been using tweezers
perhaps on her eyebrows
that I've been using on the mini delicacies.
But, I'm just, (laughing)
I feel like I'm pruning a tomato.
There we go.
So, we're gonna get real chunks of plum tomato on there.
I love plum tomato, it's full of flavour.
I think we're about ready to build our pizza base.
So there is the base.
I'm gonna use this thing,
which looks like a miniature golf club
to get the sauce.
Okay, yeah it is gonna go on eventually.
And tomato on there.
Oh yeah, baby.
That was a very unintentional Austin Powers reference.
Most English people don't speak like that, sorry.
Oh yes.
I feel it needs a little bit of the juice there as well.
Oh yeah.
Tweezers for the mozzarella, alright.
(laughing)
Now a lot of you guys have been saying, "Barry,
"when you do your mini foods,
"you should get a little toy set so it looks
"for scale you get yourself a little toy dining table
"and stuff like that."
Um, I've seen those videos, I'm like,
uh, it kind of goes against what I've always
wanted to do and I've mentioned that in the past, but
if you guys really want to see that,
I can definitely get hold of stuff like that
if you want, so let me know
if you think that that will
seal the deal and make it really show its scale.
This is the tricky bit, okay.
I'm not using a pizza stone,
but my oven is still red hot
and this is a way around making pizza on a pizza stone.
If you don't have it, I'll be using a baking tray.
It's getting super hot in the oven,
and I'm gonna stick the pizza on the back of that.
Sorry, I didn't want to talk right then,
that was intense.
That is a hot tray.
Hope it works.
Meanwhile, here is my nickname in a herb, Basil.
Basil leaf, we're gonna prune it.
(laughing)
So just little cuts of basil leaves, then.
I love the smell of that, and it's gonna go
on top of our pizza to finish.
Well, if it doesn't work.
Ladies and gents, I present to you
our Margherita (chuckling) pizza.
Things got a little bit dangerous
trying to get it out of the oven.
I'd wanted to use normal tools,
so here it is on the chopping board.
Let's finish it off.
So I've got a little sprinkling of Parmesan.
(giggling)
I'm adding the basil on with the tweezers.
Alright.
Amazing, and maybe a little drenching of olive oil,
just to bring it back to life.
Literally just a trickle of olive oil.
(giggling)
I love it.
Oh my gosh.
Proper stain baked effect on it, I'm loving it.
But does it fit on the plate?
Let's find out.
Oh, it's still a little bit warm actually,
that's surprising.
Cha-Ching.
Yeah it does, and here,
as usual, is (giggling)
little tangerine for scale.
Margherita pizza, miniature-fied.
Here we go then folks, down the hatch.
(chuckling)
That tastes identical.
You got the cheese and tomatoes on there,
but it is all about that flavour in that dough.
I can't believe that worked,
that was incredible.
Mm.
I've never been to Italy, but that feels like
the closest I can get to being there.
So, that is it, folks.
Really hope you enjoyed the video.
Don't forget to check out the rest of the mini food,
there's a link up here at the playlist,
and down below.
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Here's a pug pause.

MINI PIZZA 2

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