Simple Pizza Recipe
A trouble-free recipe for cheese and tomato pizza. To begin with we provide you with a recipe for making the dough - fundamental to the total success of the pizza. After that, we give you a recipe for the sauce
Pizza Dough Ingredients:
- 1tsp - salt
- 120ml - warm water
- 1tbsp - olive oil
- White Flour 225g
- Yeast 1tsp
- 1/2tsp - sugar
Pizza Topping Ingredients:
- 125g - Buffalo mozzarella cheese
- 4tbsp - Tomato Puree
- 1tsp - Oregano Died
- salt, pepper
To Make Your Pizza Dough:
1) Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl and add the yeast and the sugar. Combine and cread a dough with a central space for adding oil and water.
2) Adding the oil and water, blend together with your hands. Add more flour and water if necessary.
3) When the dough mixture is more or less firm and no remnants are left on the sides of the mixing bowl, you have finished.
4) Knead the dough on a dry floury surface until it has a smooth and stretchy texture.
5) Now you leave your dough to rise, an hour should be roughly enough time. For best results 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 about double its original size.
7) Return the dough to a floured surface and knead for a few more minutes.
8) Stretch out your dough in the shape of a circle. Decide how thick or thin you want your pizza base to be.
Place your 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 your 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 around fifteen minutes, or until the cheese has melted and the base is firm. Now you can add your own choice of extra toppings. Remember to ensure any meat used has been previously cooked. Then return to your oven for a further four-seven minutes.
Feel free to add ingredients to the topping, e.g. meat, vegetables or fish.
