Monday, 7 July 2014

How to Make Pizza Dough

I learned how to make pizza from a wonderful lady called Bruna! This is the best dish ever! It's simple and tasty! Plus, if you have one or more little ones who can help you prepare it, its even better!




Pizza Dough Ingredients:
Flour about 500 gr/ 1 pound
7 grams of dry yeast (1/4 ounce)
300 ml (1 and 1/3 cup)  water  and milk (half and half)
1-2 small spoon of salt
2 small spoons of sugar
3 spoons of olive oil




Step 1: Mix the milk and hot/ warm water to obtain a warm liquid.
Step 2: Add almost all the flour in a bowl. You will use the rest to adjust the consistency as needed.
Step 3: Dig a hole in the centre of the flour and add to it the salt, sugar, yeast and oil.
Step 4:  Start adding slowly the warm liquid and mixing all together in slow round motion.
Step 5: Keep mixing and adding the liquid. You need to mix it until you obtain an not sticky dough.
Step 6: After mixing it all, keep pressing and mixing the dough for 10 minutes. How to do this step is better explained in the video linked in this page.
Step 7: Cover the dough and live it raise in room temperature for about 2 hours
Step 8: Place the dough in a plain surface and lay it flat.


You are done!
For the pizza we choose to have two traditional ones:

1. Onion and Tuna
So we will use:
1 Small onion
Tomato sauce
200 gr (less than half a pound) of mozzarella for pizza.
One small can of tuna in olive oil
2. Mushrooms and hum
Here we used:
A bunch of dried porcini mushrooms
4-5 shampignon mushrooms
2 big slices of hum
200 gr (less than half a pound) of mozzarella for pizza and a fresh mozarella

To make the pizza you add first the tomato sauce then the cheese and then all the other ingreedients.

Bake for about 20 min in a preheated ventilated oven at  200 degrees (392 Fahrenheit). Note that times may vary depending on your oven and the amount of water that is created by the ingredients.