Pizza Recipe
A straightforward recipe for cheese and tomato pizza. To start with we provide a recipe for making the dough - important to the total success of the pizza. After that, we give you a recipe for the sauce
For the pizza dough you will need:
- 1tsp - salt
- Warm water 120ml
- 1tbsp - olive oil
- White Flour 225g
- 1tsp - yeast (the fast action type if possible)
- Sugar 0/5tsp
Pizza Topping Ingredients:
- 125g - Buffalo mozzarella
- 4tbsp - Tomato Puree
- 1tsp - dried oregano
- salt, pepper
Preparing The Pizza Dough:
1) Add salt, flour together and blend yeast and sugar. Then mix well with your hands and make a small hole in the middle of the mix for the olive oil and water to be added.
2) Adding the oil and water, blend together with your hands. Add extra 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) Move the dough to a floured surface and carry on kneading until the dough becomes smooth and elastic.
5) Now you leave your dough to rise, an hour should be more or less enough time. 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 initial size.
7) Spend a further minute or two kneading the dough.
8) Stretch out the dough to make 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 your pizza base. Now scatter your mozzarella around the pizza evenly and sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano. Drizzle with olive oil. Place on the top shelf of the oven and cook for roughly 15 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 all meat used has been previously cooked. Then return to your oven for a further 4-7 minutes.
You can add your own personal choice of additional meat, fish or vegatables.
