Homemade Pizza

PIZZA 

FOR THE DOUGH 

500 gr 00 Flour 

300 ml water at room temperature 

10 gr salt 

6 gr dry Yeast 

35 gr Olive Oil 

FOR THE SAUCE 

1 tin chopped tomatoes 

Salt 

Basil 

3 Spoons of Olive oil 

1 bag of grated mozzarella 

INSTRUCTIONS: 

For the dough, add the flour in the mixer bowl, add the salt. In a different bowl, mix the water, oil and dry yeast and mix well with a whisk. Let the yeast activate (about 4 minutes) then add to the flour and turn on the mixer. 

Work the dough in the mixer for about 6-7 minutes; take it out, form a nice dough ball and put it back in the mixer bowl, wrap with cling film and let it rise for about 2-3 hours ( it should be in a warm spot, so I use the immersion cupboard ). 

Once it has risen, take it out of the bowl, knock it back and split it in equal weight smaller balls; 110 gr each should be good enough. 

Dust with flour the surface of tray, put the balls on it, cover with cling film and let them rise for about 2 hours. 

Only then you’ll be ready to make Pizza. 

As the dough is rising, let’s make the sauce…..just mix all ingredients together! 

To make pizza, you would need to get the pizza dough out, have a good clean and floured surface and do your best to shape it, either with a rolling pin or with your hands……. 

The oven should be very hot, I leave it to 250C; I also have a pizza stone in it that would need to be heated up. I usually have the oven on Grill function, so the stone gets nice and hot, then when it is time to cook the pizza, I turn it to convention….it usually takes just about 5 minutes to cook. 

Once your Pizza dough is shaped, add some tomato sauce, starting from the centre and moving outward; top it up with Mozzarella and there you have a Margherita….then you can top it up with almost all, just not the Pineapple!!!!