Here is a straightforward recipe for a very tasty home-made cheese and tomato pizza. The main work is in the preparing the dough but if this is done correctly the results are superb.
Pizza Dough Ingredients:
- 1tsp – salt
- Warm water 120ml
- Olive oil 1tsp
- White Flour 225g
- Yeast 1tsp
- 1/2tsp – sugar
Pizza Topping Ingredients:
- 125g – Buffalo mozzarella cheese
- 4tbsp – Tomato Sauce
- 1tsp – Oregano Died
- salt and pepper to taste
Preparing 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) Add the water and olive oil to the small hole and mix well with your hands while bringing the ingrediants together to make a small ball.
Add extra flour and water if required.
3) Continue this motion for approximately three minutes or until the mix is one ball and the bowl is somewhat clean.
4) Move the dough to a floured surface and carry on kneading until the dough becomes smooth and elastic.
5) Now you leave the dough to rise, an hour should be about 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 roughly double its original size.
7) Spend a further minute or two kneading the dough.
Stretch out the dough in a circle. Decide the desired thickness of the pizza base.
Place your dough on a non-stick baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Pre-heat the 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. Drizzle with olive oil. Place on the top shelf of your oven and cook for more or less 15 minutes, or until the cheese has melted and the base is crispy. Now you can add your own choice of extra toppings. Remember to ensure any meat used has been previously cooked. Then return to the oven for a further 4-7 minutes.
Feel free to add ingredients to the topping, e.g. meat, vegetables or fish.
Wayne Miller