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.




