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A Basic Pizza Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Begin with preheating your oven to 400 degrees F.
  • Place the flour into a extra large bowl, before adding the sugar and yeast to one side of the bowl, the salt on the other, before adding the oil and water. Blend with a fork. Dough will be shaggy and will resemble floury lumps, this is fine. Don't add any more water or oil. You can always add more later, but you can't take any away.
  • Flour, or oil your hands, lightly, before getting in there. Begin to knead into a ball. The dough will still feel floury, but keep with it. Keep kneading until the dough becomes pillow-y and elastic.
  • Be warned that you can over knead, and the more that you knead the more gluten forms in the dough. The more gluten, the chewier the crust will be.
  • Once the dough reaches a pillow-y, elastic stage, place into an oiled bowl and place it into a warm spot. Leave the dough alone for fifteen minutes, but for no longer than twenty.
  • During this time, prep your pizza pan, or sheet pan, very lightly with oil or with your preferred spray. Once the dough is done with it's nap, take it out and punch it down. Roll the dough out, to only slightly smaller than the size of the pan, or to the size of your flatbread.
  • Place the dough into the pan, and if a pizza pan, begin to gently ease the dough into the shape of the pan. The dough should stretch, not rip. If ripping, allow extra time to rise.
  • Be sure to build up a crust either way, so your toppings won't bubble over while they cook. The area where your toppings will sit will be thinner, and the entire piece should be in one. Don't rip dough apart to place it somewhere else, as it won't come back the same, or look as nice.
  • Once the dough is crusted and shaped, given ten minutes to rest, it's time for the herbs.
  • Take and mix everything together for your herb mixture, before taking a brush or the back of a spoon, and liberally coating the entire pizza crust and bottom. Once everything is coated, give the dough ten minutes to rest after begin on your toppings.
  • You can use anything as a sauce, not only tomato. I personally prefer a white sauce, based on cream and white cheeses, but most people prefer tomato. Begin with the sauce, then blend the mozzarella and the parmesan together before adding them.
  • After the cheese, add whatever toppings you'd like. Veggies, meats, fruits like sliced tomatoes and pineapples, ect.
  • Once the pizza is topped, place into the preheated oven for fifteen minutes, before checking back periodically. Wash your dishes as it cooks. Once the crust is a golden brown and the cheese melted, pull from the oven and allow to stand five minutes before slicing into pieces.
  • Enjoy!

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