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Oven evening: pizza and apple tart

Coordinate temperatures and resting times to use one oven for dinner and dessert.

Oven evening: pizza and apple tart
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Equipment and organisation

Prepare pizza tray, tart tin and cooling rack. Reserve space for dough rising.

Before starting

Make pizza dough and start its rise. Prepare and bake tart at its own recipe temperature.

During cooking or resting

Prepare sauce and mozzarella while tart bakes. Remove and cool tart, then raise oven temperature for pizza and wait for it to heat.

Just before serving

Top pizza shortly before baking and serve hot. The two dishes require different temperatures, so bake successively.

Yield and serving

Pizza yields 4 portions, tart 8. Four guests leave extra tart. Check pastry and fruit rather than copying timings between dishes.

Quantities and timings belong to each recipe. Parallel steps depend on your equipment; menu times do not simply add together.

Compare recipes

Compare recipes
RecipePreparationCookingRest / waitingTotalServings
Homemade margherita pizza25 min15 min60 min100 min4
Easy apple tart20 min35 min0 min55 min8

Shopping list by recipe

Indicative quantities, excluding additional accompaniments.

Homemade margherita pizza · 4 Servings
  • 500 g flour
  • 325 ml lukewarm water
  • 7 g dry yeast
  • 10 g salt
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 250 g passata
  • 250 g mozzarella
  • Basil
Easy apple tart · 8 Servings
  • 1 round sheet puff pastry
  • 4 apples
  • 30 g butter
  • 30 g sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon, optional
  • 1 tbsp apricot jam, optional
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