Gordon White

Laziness is awesome. My adaptation of some other Gordon’s recipe was brought about by my lack of food processor (now rectified) and the fact that it was a school night.

The resulting recipe is fantastic and infinitely variable. This is because what you’re essentially doing is making a pizza out of pastry (as normal pizzas are clearly too dangerously low in fat).

Ingredients

• Pastry sheet or roll
• 1 Jar of fancy pants pesto (the best you can find)
• 1 sweet potato (kiwis: don’t use white kumara. Use proper sweet potato, not that colourless, mushy replacement. It has to look like this.)
• 300 grams buffalo mozarella
• 4 or 5 tomatoes
• 1 whole chorizo sausage (my preference but you can use a similar cured meat)
• 1 egg

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 220 degrees
• Peel and slice the sweet potato, mozzarella, chorizo and tomatoes. Set aside in separate bowls or heaps on a large plate
• Roll out pastry so that it just fits inside your baking tray then score the edges with a knife
• Brush the beaten egg over the scored part then smear the fancy pants pesto over the rest of the base
• Neatly layer alternate slices of the other ingredients on top of the pesto-smeared area. You can kinda see what I mean from the above phone photo
• Bake for 25 minutes or until it looks ready

This should probably serve 4-5 people with a salad but we split it between three people. I wouldn’t recommend doing this because we all felt sick straight afterward. But it was just so good.