Pizza originated in Italy, but has now been taken around the world, becoming a popular food all over. It can go with almost anything! Creating your own pizza could give you a better taste than the ones you buy in the shop. This how-to will give you 3 different ways of creating your pizza. Some methods are faster than the others!
Ingredients
- Pre-made or homemade dough
- 1 egg (as glaze)
- Tomato paste
- Grated cheese (usually mozzarella, romano, parmesan, or some combination)
- Olive oil (Optional)
- Toppings can be almost anything you like, including:
- Sliced pepperoni
- Chopped onions
- Green peppers
- Sausage
- Bacon or bacon bits
- Chicken
- Olives
- Mushrooms
- Ground beef
- Ham
- Pineapple
- Sliced pepperoni
- Yeast
- Sifted flour
- Warm water
Steps
- Spread olive oil lightly over the crust to avoid burning.
- Spread tomato paste on your pizza dough.
- Add a sprinkling of cheese.
- Add any other toppings that you might enjoy.
- With a brush add some egg to glaze all around the edges of your pizza dough.
- Place your pizza on an oven tray sprayed with olive-oil, so that the pizza doesn't stick.
- Put your pizza in the oven, and turn it down to about 160C or 320F degrees.
- Take it out after about 15 - 25 minutes, depending on your oven. Use your own judgment to tell when the pizza is ready. The cheese should be a golden brown, but it should not be burnt.
- Preheat your oven to about 180c or 350F. (C=Celsius F=Fahrenheit.)
- Sprinkle the yeast into a medium bowl containing 1 1/4 cup warm water and stir until yeast dissolves.
- Add 2 cups sifted flour and stir until blended.
- Add another 1 1/2 to 2 cups flour and blend until too stiff to stir with a spoon.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead it for 10 to 15 minutes until dough is smooth and elastic. (See "How to Knead Dough" in the "Related wikiHows".)
- Place the dough in another bowl greased with a small amount of oil. Turn the dough once so that the top is oiled.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and put it in a warm place for about 45 minutes--until the dough rises to about double its original size.
- Dump the dough back onto the floured surface and punch it down, getting rid of any bubbles. Divide the dough in half and let it rest a few minutes.
- Roll each half into a 12-inch circle, depending on your personal preference for how thick pizza crust should be. (It will puff slightly when baked.)
- Transfer the dough to an oiled pizza pan or baking sheet, or, if you have a baking stone, to a cornmeal-sprinkled wooden pizza peel for transfer directly to the stone.
- Add sauce, cheese and toppings as desired. If you like, brush exposed edges of the crust with olive oil.
- Bake each pizza for 15 to 20 minutes, or until crust is nicely browned and cheese is melted.
- Spread the sauce all over the tortilla but you might want to leave a little crust around the edge.
- Put on your toppings and arrange.
- Grate the cheese over the pizza.
- Simply put it under the grill. Be careful not to get burned and your pizza could sizzle and pop because of the common bubbles in the pizza crust.
- Take it out after three minutes, it should be done!
- Get your pizza base, it can be any sort, although don't make it more than 2 cms (3/4 inch) thick when cooked.
- Place your tomato base and toppings on.
- Make sure your Wood-fired oven is very hot for the best pizza ever and to help the pizza cook faster.
- Put your pizza into the oven, preferably on a tray so the base does not burn.
- Turn your pizza every 30 seconds for two minutes, and at the 1:30 mark take it off the tray. Now your pizza should be done.
- Take your pizza out, slice and enjoy!
Tips
- Normal cheese cubes are a cheaper alternative to mozzarella cheese.Just grate cheese cubes evenly over the pizza base surface.
- Before you put your pizza in the oven, spray it with a bit of olive oil, for a crisper end-result. it also prevents it from sticking to the pan.
- Keep in mind that this is only a very basic recipe for a pizza. When you are more experienced at making pizzas, change the recipe a little bit. For instance, instead of ham, use salami, or something like that.
- Try Mascarpone cheese in the tomato sauce.
- For more nice crisp top, broil the top of your pizza. Remember, eyeball it! Keep it in the broiler for about two minutes. This process will make a nice golden top.
- Instead of tomato sauce, you can put spaghetti sauce.
- If you extend the cheese further out than the tomato sauce and leave little gaps in the watery tomato-sauce layer through which the cheese can bond to the crust, the cheese layer will not slide off en masse so easily.
- Pre-bake the crust a little if you like it more evenly cooked through and done rather than soggy where it meets the sauce, like foccacia pizza.
- If the crust and top are burnt before the inside is cooked enough, the temperature is too high. A thicker pizza needs lower temperatures so it cooks long enough to be done-inside without burning-outside. You can turn up the heat or even broil the pizza briefly to brown the top, at the end, while eying it to avoid burning it.
Warnings
- When your pizza is in the oven, keep an eye on it at all times.
- Make sure that you are not allergic to any of the ingredients used in making your pizza.
- Be careful not to burn yourself.
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