The Royal Selection

Pizza

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When Jimin goes to fetch him for the activity he had planned, Yoongi was surprised to see Jimin taking him to one of the spare kitchens Yoongi had found during his exploring of the palace.

Inside, ingredients were already set up on the counter, like flour, eggs, and what not. Yoongi sniffed at a can of tomatoes with interest before asking, "what are we making?"

"I thought maybe I'd try to make something easy for you," Jimin said, wiping his hands on the apron around his waist. "That's good as well."

Yoongi looked at the ingredient list, and although it was relative easy, there was a lot of steps, and some of them required a lot of time.

"At least let me help with some of the steps." Yoongi tried, but Jimin shook his head firmly. "No! I want to make it for you all by myself!"

Yoongi laughed at Jimin's determination and found a chair to sit on so he could watch Jimin cook. "Alright, but if you need my help don't be afraid to ask."

It took about five minutes for Yoongi to rush over and stop whatever Jimin was doing, because obviously the omega was starting to mess up.

This made Jimin kinda upset.

"I can't even cook properly!" Jimin whined in frustration, his forehead knotted together as he fisted his clothes. Jimin had nearly set the meat on fire, so Yoongi had to take over for fear Jimin would get burned.

"No, no it's fine!" Yoongi protested, scooping the charred meat out and replacing it with fresh ones. "I'll just show you how to do it, okay?" Jimin nodded, still unhappy judging by the crestfallen look on his face and the downturn of his lips.

Yoongi shows Jimin how to set the right size of the fire so that the food inside doesn't burn. He also explains that some foods are able to stand heat more than others.

"For example," Yoongi says. "Ginger would burn easily, as well as bacon." Jimin nods in understanding. "What about tomato sauce?"

"You made the fire too big." Yoongi pointed out.

"Oh."

"Yeah, so next time when you're cooking pay attention to when they say high heat, medium heat, or low heat." Yoongi says, and Jimin nods.

"I don't really have much cooking experience, I don't know why I thought this was a good idea." Jimin said sheepishly. Yoongi gave him a small smile to try and make Jimin feel a bit better.

"No worries, no one is good at cooking at first." Yoongi says, his arm starting to ache from the repeated stir of the sauce. "I wasn't either, at first. But I'm better now because of practice." He handed the spoon to Jimin and pulled out a bowl. He turned the fire off and poured the sauce out.

"This tomato sauce will have more flavour than just plain tomato sauce, because we added garlic, oregano, and basil." Yoongi pointed out, and Jimin nodded.

"Now, for the dough, we need flour, water, sugar, salt, yeast, and some oil." Jimin ran around the kitchen, pulling the various items from the shelves and handed it to Yoongi, who pulled out a large bowl to mix with.

He put roughly one spoon of dry yeast into the warm water to let it activate and poured the appropriate amount of flour into the bowl.

"We have to wait for a bit for the yeast to become a bit frothy." Yoongi explained, and Jimin stared fascinated at the yeast. "It looks all mushy now!"

Yoongi looked to where Jimin was crouched so he could stare level to the yeast. "Yeah, I don't know why it does that to be honest." Jimin let out giggle as he poked the water. "It smells good for some reason, what is it for?"

"It's for rising the flour."

"Why?"

"Honestly I have no idea."

Yoongi poured the water and yeast mixture into the flour, and used a spatula to mix them into loose knots. He then started to use his hands to knead the dough together in order to make it into a round smooth circle.

Beside him, Jimin made a small noise, and Yoongi looked over to see the omega fidgeting while looking at his hands kneading the dough. "What's wrong?" Yoongi asked, and he could see Jimin's head snapped up to meet his eyes.

Jimin turns the cutest shade of red as he mutters something Yoongi couldn't hear, which prompted Yoongi to smile teasingly. "Come on~," he poked. "What is it?"

"Ju-just go back to what you were doing!" Jimin snapped, flailing his arms and looking utterly panicked. Yoongi laughed and turned away. "Alright, alright."

He took the dough out of the bowl and put it on a cutting board that was already sprinkled with flour. "Do you want to make one big pizza or a couple of small pizzas?"

Jimin made a gesture with his arms. "Big pizza!"

Yoongi handed them rolling pin to Jimin and stepped aside. "How about you roll the dough? Just make it into a circle; should be easy enough."

Jimin took the rolling pin nervously and started to roll the dough. Yoongi had to stop him several times in order to correct him.

"Don't press too hard in some places, the thickness needs to be equal, and not to thin either."

Jimin nodded and tried to make it equal.

"Now, do you want a cheese crust?" Jimjn nodded his head enthusiastically. "Yes! I love cheese!" Yoongi chuckled and took some cheese to line them up. "Oil." He instructed, and Jimin passed him the oil bowl so Yoongi could lather it over the lumps that he created as a ring. He also lathered oil over the open space inside the ring of cheese.

Taking the cooled tomato sauce, Yoongi slowly poured the tomato sauce into the circle, while Jimin used a spatula to smooth it over. When the bowl was empty, they put at least one whole bag of cheese onto the pizza.

"Are you sure eating this much cheese is safe?" Yoongi asked, as he could barely see the tomato sauce. "I mean I like cheese, but I think this is too much."

Jimin giggled. "I like it cheesy, if you want you can put some of yours to my side." Yoongi stared at Jimin.

"No way, you're gonna get nauseous." Jimin shrugged. "Whatever."

They started to put toppings after that, laying sausages. When they finished, they popped the pizza onto a pan.

"Into the oven!"

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