Ingredients
For a 12-inch diameter Pizza, you will need:
For the Pizza dough
The following quantities of ingredients make a thick pizza crust. If you want a thin pizza crust but still 12 inches diameter, use half the quantities of ingredients.
- 330g plain flour (all purpose flour)
- 5g or 2 teaspoons yeast
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 170mls warm water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Margarine (for the oven tray)
Toppings
- 400g mozzarella cheese
- 5 tablespoons Tomato Stew
- 3 mushrooms
- 1 tbsp minced/ground meat
- Pepperoni
- Green bell pepper
- Red bell pepper
- Olive oil
Utensils and Equipment
- Pizza cutter
- Kitchen towels, plastic film
- Oven, Brush, Bowls, Sieve etc
Notes
Feel unfastened to apply a mixture of culmination, greens and meat that catches your fancy for the toppings. Mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce are the most effective fashionable cheese toppings.
Feel loose to feature extra cheese in case you wish.
The minced meat ought to be fried in vegetable oil earlier than adding it at the Pizza.
Before you’re making the Pizza
Ensure that each one the utensils and equipment you may use are easy and dry.
Heat up few water. This is the nice and cozy water you’ll use to combine the Pizza dough.
Directions
Mix the Pizza dough
Sift the obvious flour into a smooth dry bowl. The bowl need to be massive sufficient for mixing the flour and different components. Sifting airs the flour and breaks up any lumps making it less complicated to combine.
Add the yeast to the dry flour and blend. This is important so the salt (introduced next) does no longer touch the yeast.
Add the sugar and salt and blend very well.
Then add the olive oil and blend very well.
Start including the nice and cozy water and mix with a spatula on the identical time till all the water has been absorbed. Then continue by using hand till a smooth soft dough is performed. Fold the dough and place it inside the bowl.
Cover the bowl with a skinny plastic film or a warm towel and location in a heat place for the dough to upward push for 1 hour. I typically put this inside the oven (became OFF).
Prepare the oven tray
Traditionally, Pizza is laid on a pizza stone and baked in a clay oven however unless you stay in a lovely Italian countryside, what maximum folks have is a standard kitchen oven. And you most possibly do now not have a pizza stone. So, we will place this Pizza in an oven tray and bake it in a trendy kitchen oven.
Rub a little margarine to your oven tray, ensuring that every a part of the tray is covered with a skinny layer of margarine. You also can use gentle butter for this.
Sprinkle a little flour on it make sure the flour covers all the margarine. When done, pour out the extra flour.
Continue with the Pizza dough
After 1 hour, carry out the Pizza dough from the nice and cozy area. You’ll observe that the pizza dough is puffy.
Knead it for a chunk and switch to the oven tray.
Start spreading the dough in a circular movement like this until it’s about 12 inches in diameter. The dough can also withstand as you do that however hold going until you can get the dough to unfold as wide as viable.
When done, cowl the dough and area in a warm area to upward push once more for 45 mins.
Prepare the Pizza toppings
While looking forward to the Pizza dough to upward push a 2d time, wash and slice the greens for the pizza topping.
Fry the minced beef in a small amount of vegetable oil. It is OK whilst the red meat turns pale.
Prepare the tomato sauce for the pizza with the aid of adding stock cube, onion powder and salt to a few Tomato Stew (fresh tomato puree fried in vegetable oil). You can also upload other dry herbs you adore.
Bake and experience!
After forty-five minutes, deliver out the pizza dough from the nice and cozy area and you may be aware that the dough has overestimated once more. It is also less complicated to manipulate so spread it out more.
Rub some olive oil everywhere in the dough.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (360F) for 20 mins or till the pizza crust starts off evolved to brown.
Bring it out from the oven, rub more olive oil all over it.
Spread the tomato sauce at the pizza crust. Then the grated cheese, making sure the cheese covers all the tomato sauce.
Put it lower back within the oven for 10 minutes or till the cheese has been liquefied with the aid of warmness.
Bring it out once more and add the rest of the toppings.
Put it lower back inside the oven for a maximum of 5 mins in order that the veggies will now not emerge as dull.
Slice it up and revel in!
Serve with a relaxing tender drink.
