Pizza Recipe For Your Home Kitchen
A simple, homemade pizza - all made from scratch.Please chose good ingredients (e.g. don't use cheap cheese) and you will have a pizza that is so much better than anything you can buy frozen.
One of these 11 inch pizzas comes in at under 2 pounds ... (that's the funny currency we use over here ...)
Ingredients for the base (for 3 11 inch pizzas)
- 500g flour (plain flour, we are using yeast here!)
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 300 ml lukewarm water
- 2 teaspoons dried yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
Put the flour into a bowl
Mix the yeast with the sugar and 50ml of the lukewarm water and stir, let sit for 10 minutes until it develops a nice foam on top
Add the olive oil and salt to the flour
This is what the yeast will look like after 10 minutes. Now add the yeast to the flour, oil and salt and add the rest of the lukewarm water (250 ml). Mix with your hands and knead until you have a smooth dough
which should look like this! If you have any left-over dough, you can easily freeze it - I always make a bit more and keep the rest in the freezer for a quick supper.
Cover the dough with a clean, dry dish towel and let it sit for an hour.
In the meantime, prepare a simple pizzaiola - chop the onion and the garlic, fry in the olive oil, add the tomatoes and the spices. Let simmer for half an hour to reduce the moisture, take a blender to it and then let it cool down.
This is what the dough will look like after it has risen. Now is the time to preheat your oven to full blast.
Take 1/3 of the dough
and spread it out into the pizza pan with your fingers. Let it sit for 10 to 15 minutes so it can rise again. If you want a very thin and crisp base, roll out the dough with a rolling pin instead of spreading it with your fingers.
Chop the mozarella.
Chop up your toppings - I'm using ham and salami here.
Spread the piazzaiola - best done by putting it into the middle and then moving the pan quickly back and forth.
Put on your toppings ...Don't overdo it on the topping side - stick with 2 or 3 toppings and don't put on too much. An overloaded pizza isn't any good.
... and then put on the cheese. Put into the pre-heated oven for approx. 20 minutes. If you find that your cheese starts to burn before the pizza base is done, put the pizza into the oven without the cheese for 5 minutes and then add the cheese - this is a hint I got from on Dianne Wilson - thanks Dianne!
20 minutes later - and look at that ...
Here is quite a different pizza - no pizzaiola, and lots of different vegetables with a cheddar cheese topping. Just to prove the point, we will bake this one
This is the result after 15 minutes under the closed lid - an incredibly crispy pizza - made on a barbecue! No idea if this will work on any other kind of barbecue but a Cobb - let me know if you succeed on another one.Best with ...
A salad and a glass of red wine.
