Pizza might seem out of place in this cookbook, but the key to turning ordinary pizza into something gourmet is to make your own dough from scratch. It's as simple as it is tasty and makes for a super yummy pie when paired with fresh mozzarella and rosemary.
The first step to making pizza dough is to mix the yeast with water and sugar and let it do its thing for a couple minutes. Yeast, do your thing!
When the yeast is ready, it goes into a bowl with flour, salt, and olive oil.
Then comes the mixing, and the kneading...
...and the shaping...
...and the rising.
It was at this point that we realized we had made a ginormous amount of dough - way more than our oven, or our stomachs, could handle. Luckily, the extra stores well and can be turned into breadsticks later, if you're into that.
In case your kitchen lacks a real pizza oven, you can cook the dough for a few minutes on the stove to let it crisp up before putting it in the oven.
Time for toppings! Those chunks of mozzarella are seriously making me drool right now.
Instead of tomato sauce we used passata, which is sort of a homemade tomato puree. I guess we need some more practice because ours came out watery. But that didn't keep us from enjoying our gourmet pizzas. I'm looking forward to coming up with some crazy toppings to put on the next homemade pizza dough.
The first step to making pizza dough is to mix the yeast with water and sugar and let it do its thing for a couple minutes. Yeast, do your thing!
When the yeast is ready, it goes into a bowl with flour, salt, and olive oil.
Then comes the mixing, and the kneading...
...and the shaping...
...and the rising.
It was at this point that we realized we had made a ginormous amount of dough - way more than our oven, or our stomachs, could handle. Luckily, the extra stores well and can be turned into breadsticks later, if you're into that.
In case your kitchen lacks a real pizza oven, you can cook the dough for a few minutes on the stove to let it crisp up before putting it in the oven.
Time for toppings! Those chunks of mozzarella are seriously making me drool right now.
Instead of tomato sauce we used passata, which is sort of a homemade tomato puree. I guess we need some more practice because ours came out watery. But that didn't keep us from enjoying our gourmet pizzas. I'm looking forward to coming up with some crazy toppings to put on the next homemade pizza dough.
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