This is an easy recipe for a delectable home-made cheese and tomato pizza. The main work is in the preparing the dough but get this right and the results are super tasty.
For the pizza dough you will need:
- 1tsp – salt
- Warm water 120ml
- 1tbsp – olive oil
- 225g – white flour
- 1tsp – yeast (the fast action type if possible)
- Sugar 0/5tsp
Pizza Topping Ingredients:
- 125g – Buffalo mozzarella cheese
- 4tbsp – Tomato Puree
- 1tsp – Oregano Died
- salt, pepper
Preparing Your Pizza Dough:
1) Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl and add the yeast and the sugar. Combine and cread a dough with a central space for adding oil and water.
2) Adding the oil and water, blend together with your hands.
Add additional flour and water if required.
3) Continue this motion for approximately three minutes or until the mix is one ball and the bowl is more or less clean.
4) Move the dough to a floured surface and continue kneading until the dough becomes smooth and elastic.
5) Allow the dough to raise, this should be in roughly speaking an hour. It helps to lightly oil a bowl and also the surface of your dough, wrap it in a clean dry cloth and leave in the bowl.
6) The dough will rise to approximately double its previous size.
7) Return the dough to a floured surface and knead for a few more minutes.
Stretch out your dough in the shape of a circle. Decide the desired thickness of the pizza base.
Place the dough on a non-stick baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Pre-heat your oven to 220 degrees Celcius. Spread the tomato sauce evenly over your pizza base. Now scatter your mozzarella around the pizza evenly and sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano. Add a drizzle of olive oil. Place on the top shelf of your oven and cook for around 15 minutes, or until the cheese has melted and the base is firm. If required add your own choice of extra toppings. Ensuring that any meat used has been previously cooked. Then return to your oven for a further four-7 minutes.
Feel free to add ingredients to the topping, e.g. meat, vegetables or fish.
Troy Sosa