Authentic Pizza Ovens

What  could be more exciting than having your wood-fired pizza oven? Cooking in it, of course! Food is universal. Wherever you are from, there’s always that one food that reminds you of something, or makes you feel closer to home.

Let’s start with three of some of the best Aussie recipes for your wood fired pizza ovens. While these are not traditional Australian food, these recipes have ingredients which you can easily find wherever you are in the world.

Here are 3 of the best  aussie recipes for outdoor cooking with oven

1. Steak with Green Peppercorn Sauce

Everybody loves a well-seasoned-straight-from-your wood-fired-oven-steak. But to make it more interesting, choose something to accompany it, like green peppercorn sauce. This is one of the classic sauces. It’s simple and easy to make and goes well with steak and cooking it in a cast iron skillet, it’s perfect.

Ingredients :

Tomahawk (bone in) steak

½ teaspoon sea salt

¼ teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper

½ teaspoon dried sumac

½ teaspoon rice vinegar or verjus

¼ teaspoon chopped fresh garlic

Other herbs of your choice if so desired

Procedure:

Season the steak with salt, pepper and herbs, pressing the seasoning into the meat.

Get your Authentic Pizza Oven preheated to 300 degrees celsius.

Lightly smear olive oil or butter in a cast iron pan

Remove the cast iron pan with high heat resistant gloves and place the steak in the cast iron pan.

Place back into the oven and sear the Tomahawk steak until about 52 degrees C.

loosely chopped broccoli and onion.

Roast the broccoli and the onion.

Toss in 1⁄2 teaspoon of verjus or rice vinegar, 2 teaspoons of olive oil, ¼ teaspoon of chopped garlic.  Add salt and pepper to taste.

Let the steak rest and keep them warm when done.

Serving:

Sprinkle some sea salt and prepare to drool.

2. Wood fired Prawns with Basil Butter

As we always say, a wood-fired pizza oven is not just for pizza. It’s great for seafood too! Making this recipe is simple and easy.

Ingredients:

Prawns peeled and deveined

Fresh basil

Salted butter

Salt and pepper

Procedure:

Combine basil with salted butter in a food processor

Season the prawns.

Shove a heavy-cast iron pan into the oven.

Wait for 5-7 minutes before adding the prawns. They will be fully cooked in less than 2 minutes.

Add a big dollop of basil butter to the pan just before they are ready.

Once the butter melts, toss the prawns until they are completely coated.

Serve with some crusty bread to wipe off all the melted basil butter

3. Margherita Wood Fired Pizza or Simple Aussie Wood-fired Pizza

What is a wood fire pizza oven if we are not cooking pizza? Baking with wood fired pizza has unique flavors and texture because of the intense heat used to cook it. You can cook a pizza in it in two minutes. Talk about preparing dinner fast. As a rule, for making a great Italian pizza, less is more! But for an Aussie pizza, we say more barbecue sauce please.

Ingredients:

2 cups crushed Italian plum tomatoes

1 teaspoon dried oregano

2 tablespoons fresh basil

½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon pepper

2 tablespoons olive oil

300 grams mozzarella diced

For Aussie pizza: (substitute the first 3 ingredients with these)

Barbecue sauce for base

Bits of bacon and ham

One egg

Procedure :

Crush the plum tomatoes by hand. Avoid using a food processor as this will crush or damage the seeds. Add oregano, salt and pepper

DO NOT cook the sauce when using a brick wood fired pizza oven.

Brush the rolled-out dough with olive oil and spoon the sauce onto the dough.

Layer with mozzarella cheese and shove it inside your wood-fired pizza oven.

Bake until the cheese melts.

Remove from the oven and drizzle with olive oil.

Scatter fresh basil leaves on top.

To make an Aussie Pizza version, hold off the oregano and tomato sauce and spread some barbie sauce on your pizza dough as a base instead. Add in some garlic, bits of chopped bacon, or ham, and a few eggs.

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Pizza Oven Makes Appearance On Australian Home Renovation Show

An Australian home renovation show, The Block, heading into its seventeenth season features a couple who wants to put a pizza oven in the backyard of the home they are renovating. The couple, Luke and Jasmin, pitched the idea of a “pizza party pit” that would include a woodfired pizza oven and a fire pit.

Adding a pizza oven to a home renovation plan shows that the comforting sights and smells of a woodfired pizza – cooked in your own backyard isn’t for tv shows or pipe dreams. At Authentic Pizza Ovens we know pizza ovens are the ultimate way to throw a party. In fact, guests could make their own pies with a buffet of pizza topping choices you supply!

The coronavirus pandemic, which has kept many families home and not allowed for outings or even gatherings of friends has led to an increase interest in authentic pizza ovens.

Authentic Pizza Oven company Australian/American owner, Penny Tuton says, “Because the pandemic has closed many restaurants and families are staying close to home they have been looking for ways to add unique foods to their diet and with a pizza oven you can cook a pizza or an entire meal and dessert in one. An Authentic Pizza Oven makes eating at home a treat!”

The company has been shipping ovens across the United States, Canada and NOW to Australia. “It’s not our pizza oven on The Block, but we love that home renovators understand how much fun it is to have a pizza oven right in your own backyard,” she said.

Another plus to a pizza oven, especially for people who live in colder areas of the country that may be prone to power outages – a pizza oven is able to be used.

If you’re new to pizza ovens and their versatility, we have written articles and shared recipes on how to cook:

Wood-fired fish, an ideal main course

Wood-fired roasted carrots with arugula pesto as a unique side dish

Wood-fired Bananas Foster for dessert

As an appetizer or after-dinner treat you can add wood-fired roasted chipotle nuts

Of course, let’s not forget the best use of your Authentic Pizza Oven – to make pizzas. When you have your own pizza oven you can experiment with toppings. Don’t think you have to stick to the traditional cheese pizza when there are choices such as vegetarian, pineapple with ham, chicken-bacon ranch options and breakfast pizzas.

Contact us if you want to know more about Authentic Pizza Ovens, how versatile they are, how to set one up and why they make great holiday gifts!