David loves pizza and I, well it is OK, I enjoy one time to time, but it is not what I would choose for dinner, mainly because I struggle to find somewhere that has the right thickness of base and toppings that I like, so really just because I am fussy! So a few weekends ago, with friends coming over for dinner we contemplated a pizza takeout before deciding that actually we should make them ourselves. Here is our Pizza Dough recipe;
Ingredients
- 500g of Flour
- 1tsp of Sea Salt
- 7g of Dried Yeast
- 1/2tbsp of Sugar
- 2tbsp of Olive Oil
- 325ml of Lukewarm Water
Pizza Dough
Method
- Sieve the flour and salt into a large bowl and make a well in the middle
- Mix the water, olive oil, yeast and sugar in a jug and leave to stand for a few minutes
- Then gradually pour the liquid into the well and use a spoon to bring the mixture together by adding more flour to the liquid as you mix
- As it all starts to become a dough like ball transfer the mix to a well floured surface
- You then want to knead the dough to activate the yeast, I find the push, pull fold method works best and usually takes 10-15 minutes, you will know when its done when the dough springs back when you poke it
- The dough now needs to rise, so place it in a well floured bowl and cover with cling film and put in a warm place, I use a chair in front of the oven on a low temperature works well
- Leave here for an hour until the dough has doubled in size
- Now carefully remove the dough and return to your floured surface and knead it gently so all of the air is released
- The dough now should be used immediately as it will continue to grow (I learnt this the hard way)
- So divide the dough into 4 equal pieces and roll into a ball
- One by one roll the dough out into a pizza shape, I find doing this on a lightly floured piece of baking paper in the easiest way
- Leave to stand for 20 minutes
- Finally you can top them and cook in the oven for 15/20 minutes!
Pizza is Served
I used my Homemade Tomato Sauce Recipe minus the vegetables as the sauce when topping my Pizza Dough then added chicken, sweetcorn, green peppers, emmentaler and mozzarella cheese, just how I like it. I am not just saying this to praise myself but it really was the most delicious Pizza I have had in a while, as I said, I am not the biggest fan so it is great to have pizza just how I want it and this really tasted great. It is also super easy to make and kneading dough brings me great pleasure (is that odd?)!
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