A guest recipe by Florian
We always make our own Pizza dough. This recipe is particularly good!
You will need this lot :
240 g Strong white bread flour
Some yeast (We used Allinson dried active yeast)
1 table spoon tbs (8 g) olive oil
Some sugar for the dried yeast.
A pinch of salt
Some water
The method :
- Make up the yeast according to the label :
For example, ours said 650 g of flour requires 15 g of yeast, so proportionally :
, solving for x, x ≈ 5.5 g = amount of yeast. (No recipe is complete without a formula.)
Work out sugar and water in the same way. Use warm water (2 part cold 1 part boiling).
- Whilst the yeast is getting ready, measure out the flour into a mixing bowl and sprinkle a pinch of salt over it.
- Make a well in the middle and add the olive oil.
- When the yeast is ready, add the yeast mixture to the dough.
- Add additional water to the dough such that the total water added to the dough, including the yeast mixture, is 150 ml.
- Mix the dough in the bowl incorporating all the flour into the mixture.
- Take the douknead the dough for at least 5 minutes until it is nice and smooth.
- Put the dough in the mixing bowl and rest it in a nice warm place, for example next to a radiator.
- Add topping (Lolu did that) and cook it (Lolu did that too.)
Delizioso! (p.s. this worked twice!)
First ever guest entry!!! A highly scientific approach to dough with great results that lasted around 20 minutes…..yum!
Polex has given his pizza recipe by the numbers and I simply cannot leave it like that.
I do have to reply 🙂
Eye for eye, recipe for recipe! 🙂
As I am mathematically handicapped, my version of pizza will definitively contain less numbers 🙂
Ready, steady, go:
I am the worst cook ever, the only things I can cook are tea, coffee and pizza, so do not expect any proficient ingredients names, will you?
Ok, so, I take:
2 cups of usual flour (in Polish we take ‘szklanka’, which is a glass, but I am not sure it works well in English – Lolu?)
yeasts (not posh, dry, but the usual – the bigger half of the box (I wrote is especially for my Husband, I hope he appreciates:)
I put them in a bowl
then
I pour tepid water to another cup/glass and add 1 spoon of brown sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt and 2 spoons of olives oil
I pour this mixture in the bowl (where flour and yeasts are waiting) and I add so much water / flour to make a dough nice (nice = you can take your fingers off and it does not go with you).
Knead dough.
You can do it outside the bowl, of course.
When the dough is nice, put it back in the bowl, cover with some cloth and leave for half an hour i a warm place.
After half an hour take it out, roll it out and make millions of little dotlets using a fork – your pizza will breathe this way.
Add topping – anything you want.
You can use some kids for doing that:
It takes 1 hour longer and you have to renovate your kitchen afterwards, but if you are brave – give it a go.
Put pizza into an oven for 20 minutes (200 Celsius degree).
Take it out.
Eat it.
Escape quickly befor someone forces you to clen the kitchen 🙂
Enjoy 🙂
Smacznego