Friday, December 3, 2010

Nothing beats homemade pizza

I really should have continued on with becoming a baker.. I love playing with dough!
Here's a really simple pizza dough recipe, which when done properly (because lets face it, dough can be a bitch, what with the yeast and the temperature.. fussy.) turns out light and fluffy.
I've found this recipe enough to make 1 large thick base and 1 mediumish size thin (Because I like thin and crispy anyway.)

2 cups plain flour
1x7g packet of dried yeast
1 teaspoon caster sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
3/4 cup warm water

In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, salt and yeast. Add the oil and water, mix with your hand and knead lightly in the bowl until it's all mixed through and is soft and pliable. Form the dough into a ball type shape, cover with gladwrap and leave someplace warm for half an hour, until risen to double in size, or almost at least.
-30 minutes later-
Lightly punch once then tip out onto a floured bench. Using flour dusted hands, knead gently and roll out into pizza-base-type-shapes.

I would say circles, but for some reason mine (back) never turn out that way...
 Let sit for a further 10-15 minutes to rise a bit more if you wish, other than that, they are ready to be topped!
I guess the toppings are entirely up to you, but I'll share what we usually have.
Plain tomato paste for the base, or in some odd cases, Frosty likes Spaghetti sauce on his.
For a normal Frosty pizza, the toppings are as follows: Sauce, cheese, shredded ham, tin of pineapple, roast chicken and some more cheese. Oh and chili. Lots and lots of chili.
Mine: Sauce, cheese, chili, tomatoes, onion, salami, roast chicken.

Mine are always odd shapes :/

2 comments:

  1. I have to try this! I've made homemade dough before, but it always turns out either rock hard or way too thick and doughy. I'm a bit inept when it comes to baking lol.

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  2. aww i didnt get a notification on comments haha :)

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