How to Bake a Pizza
This is a simple recipe for a delicious home-made cheese and tomato pizza. The main work is in the dough preparation but get this right and the results are brilliant.
Pizza Dough Ingredients:
- 1tsp - salt
- 120ml - warm water
- 1tbsp - olive oil
- White Flour 225g
- 1tsp - yeast (the fast action type if possible)
- Sugar 0/5tsp
For the pizza topping you will need:
- 125g - Buffalo mozzarella cheese
- 4tbsp - Tomato Puree
- 1tsp - Oregano Died
- salt, pepper
To Make Your Pizza Dough:
1) Add salt, flour together and blend yeast and sugar. Combine and cread a dough with a central space for adding oil and water.
2) Add the water and olive oil to the small hole and mix well with your hands while bringing the ingrediants together to make a small ball. Add extra flour and water if necessary.
3) Continue this motion for approximately three minutes or until the mix is one ball and the bowl is comparatively clean.
4) Knead the dough on a dry floury surface until it has a smooth and stretchy texture.
5) Allow the dough to raise, which should take more or less an hour. It helps to lightly oil a bowl and also the surface of your dough, wrap it in a clean dry cloth and leave in the bowl.
6) The dough will rise to more or less double its previous size.
7) Spend a further minute or two kneading the dough.
8) Stretch out your dough to make a circle. Decide the desired thickness of the pizza base.
Place the dough on a non-stick baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Pre-heat your oven to 220 degrees Celcius. Spread the tomato sauce evenly over the pizza base. Now scatter the mozzarella around the pizza evenly and sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano. Add a drizzle of olive oil. Place on the top shelf of your oven and cook for more or less 15 minutes, or until the cheese has melted and the base is firm. If required add your own choice of extra toppings. Remember to ensure all meat used has been previously cooked. Then return to your oven for a further four-seven minutes.
You can add your own personal of extra meat, fish or vegatables.
