The Full English Breakfast Pizza

Ready In: 20min

Preparation time: 15min (after resting)

Difficulty: Easy

Yield: One thin & crispy pizza

The morning after the Christmas party calls for one thing: a proper Full English. This one just happens to be on a pizza.

We've built it on our Roman Style Thin & Crispy base, so all the good stuff has something crunchy to sit on without being too heavy. Bacon, sausage, black pudding and a runny egg in the middle, ready to be broken over every slice.

No beans needed: the tomato sauce already does that job. And when it comes to the finishing touch, it has to be HP Sauce, not ketchup. Ketchup is just too sweet for this one.

Ensure you have prepared your Great Balls of Flour dough ball so it is rested and up to temperature. This will make it much easier to press and stretch into a base.

Set your kitchen oven to its maximum setting (250ºC) with a pizza stone or steel inside, and wait until it has had sufficient time to get to temperature (around 15 minutes). If you're using a pizza oven, heat it up in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.

While the oven heats up, cook your sausages and bacon in a pan until just cooked, then slice the sausages into chunks and cut the bacon into pieces. Pre-cooking makes sure the meat is cooked through in the short time the pizza is in the oven. The black pudding can go on as it is.

Sprinkle your work surface with flour and semolina mix and stretch your dough ball out nice and thin. Transfer the base to a dusted pizza peel, or parchment paper if cooking in a conventional oven.

Build your pizza quickly once the base is prepared to stop it sticking. Start with the tomato sauce, then tear over the mozzarella, leaving a small gap in the centre. Scatter over the black pudding, bacon and sausage. If you're adding mushrooms, add a few now, but don't overload it: less is more on a thin and crispy base.

Make a small well in the centre and crack the egg into it. The cheese around the edge of the well will help hold the egg in place.

Slide the pizza onto your hot stone or steel and bake for 3 - 5 minutes, until the crust is crisp and golden, the egg white is set and the yolk is still runny. If you're using a pizza oven, turn the flame down a little so the egg has time to set before the crust burns, and rotate the pizza often.

Once the egg white has set, slide your peel underneath and lift the pizza out of the oven.

Let the pizza rest for a minute before slicing. Serve with HP Sauce on the side, break the yolk, and enjoy.

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