Homemade Pizza
Cowbridge Kitchen
What are you going to do if you fancy a Pizza? You could order one in from Dominos or Pizza Hut or even buy a ready made pizza from the supermarket.
Why not try making your own pizza ,a great homemade pizza is all about making a good pizza dough, so be sure to make fresh dough for this recipe.
Make a tasty tomato sauce for spreading over the base and then it's about the toppings, add whatever you fancy, fresh tomato, mozzarella cheese, ham, chicken any thing goes on a Pizza, even Pineapple (apparently)
Including the dough
2hr Prep time
This includes proofing the dough
20 mins Cooking time
Time
This is per pizza
283g (Small)
Calories: 787
Protein: 38g
Fat: 37g
Carbohydrates: 75g
Fiber: 5.1g
Sugar: 7.8g
Nutrition
Servings
Anybody can have a go at this recipe, some skill and experience is needed to make this.
Difficulty
Depending on the toppings this recipe can be vegetarian *
You can buy the Pizza base if you dont fancy making your own.
Cost to make:
£4.05 / $5.13 (Est.)
Equipment:
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How to make Pizza
Pizza has a long history, far too long to cover here. Flatbreads with toppings were eaten by the ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks. Pizza is more iconically associated with the Italians.
A precursor of pizza was probably the focaccia which was eaten by the Romans, who also added toppings to the flatbread.
Today Pizza is eaten the world over, it can be bought in any one of the many dedicated Pizza restaurants, bought frozen or as in this recipe, homemade Pizza.
Cuisine:Italian
ingredients
650 g Plain Flour
7 g Dried yeast
25 ml olive Oil
50 ml (warm milk)
325 ml (warm water)
1 teaspoon salt
Tomato Sauce
1 tin chopped tomatoes
2 Tablespoons of tomato puree
1 teaspoon of lazy garlic
Half a tablespoon of ketchup
A good amount fresh thyme (leaves only) to taste.
Cooking Instructions
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Dough
- Sieve the flour into a large mixing dish
- Add the salt and the yeast to the flour and mix together with a fork.
- Next you need to mix in the fluids , so add your olive oil to the flour and mix in.
- Add your (warm ) milk & water to the flour and continue to mix in with a fork until the ingredients come together and start to form a dough.
- Knead in the ingredients with your hands until you get a rough dough ball.
- Put the dough on to a floured surface and continue to knead for about 10 minutes until the dough is smooth.
- Put the dough into a clean bowl , cover with a cloth and leave to prove for about 1 hr 30 mins.
- When proven , divide the dough into portions (as required) and leave to prove for 30 minutes.
- Mash up the chopped tomatoes.
- Add the tomato puree , mix together until thick.
- Add the rest of the ingredients and mix together.
- Roll out the Pizza shape on a floured surface, then place on a pizza tray or some grease proof paper.
- Cover generously with the tomato base , being careful to leave the edges uncovered.
- Add your ingredients as desired , mix and match.
- Then cover with cheese , mozzarella is best grated and sliced mozzarella ball.
- Cook in a preheated oven at 200 c for about 20 mins or until the pizza is brown and the cheese is melted.
Once you have devided the dough you could put it into freezer bags and freeze it for another day.