A effortless recipe for cheese and tomato pizza. First we provide you with a recipe for making the dough - key to the total success of the pizza. After that, we give you a recipe for the sauce
Pizza Dough Ingredients:
- 1tsp - salt
- 120ml - warm water
- Olive oil 1tsp
- White Flour 225g
- 1tsp - yeast (the fast action type if possible)
- 1/2tsp - sugar
For the pizza topping you will need:
- 125g - Buffalo mozzarella cheese
- 4tbsp - Tomato Puree
- 1tsp - Oregano Died
- salt, pepper
Preparing Your Pizza Dough:
1) Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl and add the yeast and the 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) 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 additional flour and water if required.
3) When the dough mixture is kind of firm and no remains are left on the sides of the mixing bowl, you have finished.
4) Move the dough to a floured surface and continue to knead until the dough becomes smooth and elastic.
5) Now you leave your dough to rise, an hour should be something like 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 about double its original size.
7) Spend a further minute or two kneading the dough.
Stretch out the dough to make a circle. Decide the desired thickness of the pizza base.
Place the dough on a non-stick baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees Celcius. Spread your 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 the oven and cook for around 15 minutes, or until the cheese has melted and the base is firm. Now you can add your own choice of extra toppings. Ensuring that all meat used has been previously cooked. Then return to your oven for a further 4-seven minutes.
Feel free to add ingredients to the topping, e.g. meat, vegetables or fish.
Marcus Calderon