How to make homemade pizza - Pizza dough

All the information you need to know to learn how to make pizza  and perfect pizza dough from scratch. 

Warning: it is not as difficult as you think .

The pizza is one of those meals that no one ever rejected. Even on a diet, we look for healthy options that resemble it. We can not escape from it, we love it.

Throughout our lives, at least once we will try to learn how to make pizza, and we will surely prepare one at home with friends or family. And whether it's good or not, we'll enjoy it and we'll be happy.

Possibly you have a notion of how to make pizza. Maybe you've seen someone prepare it or maybe you have no idea but you want to learn.

No matter, here I will explain step by step how to make pizza dough , and of course how to make pizza , with its tomato sauce and recommendations of the best ingredients for pizza.

A couple of tips before you start:

Do not listen to anyone who tells you to use a wooden spoon to mix the pizza dough, use your hands and the roller when you stretch it.

Once you have the dough, you can make pizza with the ingredients that you crave. I give you a basic recipe, you can start from that and use your creativity and availability to achieve incredible flavors.

- How to make pizza: remember to grease the mold well, including the edges -

How to make pizza dough

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of all-purpose wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon fresh yeast (baker's yeast)
• 200 ml of water
• a pinch of salt
• A pinch of sugar
• 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil

Preparation of the dough:

In a large plastic container mix the yeast and water. Add the 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, stir a little with your fingers and begin to incorporate the wheat flour little by little. Add also the pinch of salt and sugar.

Use only one hand to mix. At first you will stick unbearably on your fingers, keep mixing and adding the flour little by little.

By this time the mixture will start to be less sticky. You must continue to knead it, with both hands now, until it sticks to your fingers. This takes several minutes. If you still hit a lot, put more flour.

When you almost do not stick, remove it from the container and put it on a flat surface, clean and with a little flour. Knead hard for about 10 minutes. Stretch it and rejoin it several times, the idea is that the dough becomes elastic. If you still stick a bit on your fingers, add more flour, but always in small portions. Keep kneading until it looks compact and uniform.

After this, place the pizza dough back into the plastic container and cover with a clean, dark cloth. Let stand for 1 hour. With this you will allow the incorporated yeast to start acting, causing it to increase in size.

After this time unclogs the container, you will surely find that the dough has grown. Ideally, it has doubled.

Put it on the flat surface where you worked it before with a little bit of flour.

Smooth for about 5 minutes and begin to stretch it little by little, looking for the classic round shape of pizza, or square, rectangular, depending on your tray.

To achieve this you can use the famous roller .

- How to make pizza: you can add a little oregano or dried basil to the dough to experiment and flavor it -

Stretch the dough evenly on all sides until you get the size you need, which in this case is the same as the tray / mold, about 40 centimeters in diameter.

When you have this size, move it carefully to the tray.

If you need to cover the surface, try to stretch the pizza dough with your fingers, with caution. If it comes out a little on the sides, use a knife to remove the excess.

Once put and well distributed the dough in the mold, let it rest for 5 minutes more. You can take this time to prepare the ingredients of the pizza and preheat the oven.

So far you have the full explanation of how to make pizza dough. Now let's learn how to make pizza, its ingredients and its cooking in the oven.

Preparation: How to make homemade pizza easy

Ingredients:

• Half can of tomato (or 4 large peeled tomatoes)
• A pinch of oregano
• a pinch of salt
• 100 grams of mozzarella cheese
• Half medium-size paprika
• Half onion medium size
• 50 grams of cooked ham, sausage or pepperoni

Elaboration step by step:

Grind the tomatoes in a food processor or in a blender. You can also crush them with a fork so that they are loose pieces. Add a pinch of salt and oregano to this sauce.

Grate the mozzarella cheese.

Chop all the other ingredients: ham, onion and paprika in strips, and if you use pepperoni or sausages, in very thin slices, although surely you have already sold it that way.

Armed with pizza

Add the tomato sauce on your pizza dough previously prepared and ready in its respective mold. Spread the sauce well with the help of a spoon so that it is uniform on all sides.

Then put the grated mozzarella cheese and then the other ingredients.

Take to the oven, previously preheated to 200 degrees Celsius.

Let cook for 10-15 minutes. Watch that it is not going to burn, since some ovens are treacherous.

The exact point of the pizza is: the cheese melted and slightly browned on top, and the pizza dough slightly brown underneath. It should be able to break easily without becoming a cookie.

Some people prefer their pizza more or less thick and more or less crispy below. This you will decide you according to your taste and you can adapt it in later preparations.

Once your pizza is ready, cut it in its classic triangular shape and enjoy it as a family.

Reasons why your homemade pizza might not stay the way you wanted it

Even if you already know how to make homemade pizza, it does not hurt to follow these tips.

• The process of making the dough is important. You must use a fresh and good quality baker's yeast. Nothing to use one that was saved months ago. Neither baking powder, which is not the same. If the dough does not grow, you most likely used an old yeast.
• Not all wheat flours are the same. Follow the steps I give you. And only alter them if you see that the dough is very watery or very compact when you are mixing it. And remember: any adjustment do it in minimum proportions, never in a single stroke.
• When stretching the dough, be careful not to break it, if there are broken or very thin parts, you can stick it in the mold when you remove it. Maybe if this happens it is not the end of the world, go ahead.
• Remember to grease the mold well, everywhere, including the edges so that it does not stick.
• Use fresh tomatoes for the sauce. Nothing worse than an acid tomato sauce.
• When you are in the oven try not to be distracted, very easily you can spend time with the respective consequences.
• When you take it off the mold, make it carefully with a flexible palette. If it was stuck somewhere, use the same palette to "cut" it underneath until it yields. Do not worry, enjoy it just the same.

Practice makes a master. Do not forget.

In this post I explained how to make homemade pizza with simple ingredients that I like. In your case you can replace them with the ones you want or what you have at home. The possibilities are endless.

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