Recipe for Pizza

How to become a pizza self supplier.
From now on you are independent from far away pizzerias and supermarkets.


Making pizza is easy. There are two steps -
First the dough for the pizza base.
Second the topping.

Ingredients:

Hardware: Oven, baking-sheet, baking paper (so the dough will not stick on the baking-sheet), pot (for mixing).

We need for the dough:
1/4 liter (=250 gram) water, 500 grams of white flour, 40 grams of fresh yeast, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
The quantity is enough for one big or two medium sized pieces of pizza.

We need for the topping:
Depending on your taste some of the following - tomatoes, red/green pepper, courgette, olives, garlic, onions, chesse, mushrooms, corn. Two teaspoon of olive oil. Some spice like oregano, pepper, basil, rosemary.

We do the dough for the pizza base:
Put the lukewarm water into the pot. Mix yeast, sugar and salt into water. Put the flour into mixture. Knead the mixture for a few minutes until it becomes a dough. The flour should be fully absorbed by the dough. If you knead long enough the dough will be neither moist nor dusty. Let the dough rest for about 15 minutes, it grows during this time and will be easier to form.
Then form with your fingers out of the dough one or two flat discs and press them evenly flat, about the thickness of a pencil. (The dough will become thicker in the oven.) Put the dough base on the baking-sheet with the baking paper.

Now the topping:
Spread the olive oil over the top of the dough base. Cut tomatoes, cheese, olives, paprika and whatever you like into pieces and distribute it evenly over the dough base. Season the top with some spices (not too much).

Preheat the oven to 225 degree Celsius (=470 degree Fahrenheit).
Put the baking-sheet with the pizza in the hot oven. Bake for 20 minutes, then turn the heat off and open the oven door. The cheese should be melted and the base shouldn't be burnt. Let the pizza cool down and take it carefully out of the oven.

Enjoy your meal!


Here is another pizza recipe to try.





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