Japanese pizza

I made a Japanese-style pizza for a Valentine's Day dinner that Da and I hosted at our home this year.

What makes this pizza different from other savoury pizzas is the sauce that you spread on the pizza base. I used tonkatsu sauce, which I managed to buy from the Japanese food section in NTUC Supermarket.

Ingredients

1 pizza base
2 pieces of chicken fillet (sliced)
1/3 red capsicum (sliced)
1/2 stick celery (sliced)
2 crab sticks (sliced)
1/3 carrot (sliced)
1 cup mushroom (I use a mixture of dried Chinese mushroom and fresh mushroom) (sliced)
2 cups miso soup
tonkatsu sauce
mayonnaise
grated mozarella cheese
seasoned seaweed (sliced)
bacon bits


Method

1. Cook the sliced ingredients in boiling miso soup. Strain and set aside.

2. Spread tonkatsu sauce on the pizza base.

3. Arrange the cooked ingredients on top of the pizza base.

4. Using a spoon, liberally scoop mayonnaise onto the pizza base.

5. Cover the pizza with grated mozarella cheese and seasoned seaweed and bacon bits.

6. Place the pizza onto a baking tray lined with aluminium foil. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees celsius for 30 minutes.

Tips

1. If you do not have miso soup on hand, you can marinate the ingredients with some worcestershire sauce, dash of pepper and dash of salt and cook the ingredients in boiling water. Remember to strain the cooked ingredients before you arrange the ingredients onto the pizza base.

2. Be innovative and experiment with other ingredients of your choice.

3. You can either buy a ready-made pizza base (I prefer Mediterranean pizza base to the normal pizza base) or you can use a home-made pizza base.