The Classic Pizza

I love pizza. Simple as that. There are so many possibilities as what you can add to them. Cheese, meats, herbs, even spaghetti! Personally I prefer my pizza's to be simple and to the point. So here is the recipe I use, that constantly changes as to what mood I'm in. Hope you like it!

Step 1 The Pizza Base

The thing that makes a pizza a pizza. Usually I make the dough in our bread
maker using the following recipe:

• 290ml of water
• 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 1/2 of a teaspoon of kosher salt
• 500g of plain flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons of Edmunds Surebake Yeast (fancy name for Tandaco dry yeast)

Just pop into the bread maker, set it on Dough and away you go. Of course, your bread maker might need some different directions, so always consult the user manual.

Or you can buy a store bought base if you don't have 2 hours to wait. 

Once the dough is finish, knead it and flatten it out into a circular shape. Once this is done, preheat your oven to 200°C (about 390°F) and let it heat up while you put on the toppings.

For a crispier base, put in the pizza stone or tray in the oven to heat up at the same time. 

Comments

[Puzzledd]

I like the pine nuts idea.
If you're too impatient (or like me, too late getting started) and you can't wait for the dough to rise etc, you can make a "scone dough" : mix self-raising (cake) flour, pinch of salt and a slurp of oil, then mix to a dough with water. It will start to puff up as you flatten and stretch it, then as it cooks.
This dough isn't for purists (or "thin-base" fans) - and it's not great re-heated - but it's lovely straight out of the oven.
Now you've made me hungry :P

[possum888]

Scone dough? Thats sounds like a good idea.

The scone recipe I use has an unusual ingredient - lemonade

2 cups plain flour
4 tsp cream of tartar
2 tsp baking soda
1 x 300ml bottle of cream
1 x 330 ml can of lemonade
2 cups tasty grated cheese

Process:

1. Sift dry ingredients together.
2. Stir in grated cheese.
3. Pour in cream & lemonade.
4. Mix to combine
5. Pat out to shape cut into 12-15 scones
6. Bake at 220c until golden, 20 minutes or so.

[Puzzledd]

That sounds interesting- I guess the lemonade would give it a real lift. I usually used to make scones with self-raising flour (do you have that in NZ?) and use butter and milk, or just cream and a bit of water as a shortcut. I don't make them much any more but I like the lemonade idea (especially for plain scones to have with jam and cream- yum!)

I wonder how the cheese scone mix would work with pizza... ooh, nice!

[possum888]

Yeah the lemonade just gives it a nice flavor if you have a sweet tooth. We do have self-raising flour, but usually I follow the recipe word-to-word.

Well if you used mozzarella, it might have a nice flavour. Next time I have pizza, I am so trying!!

[Puzzledd]

Hmmm... pizza!
I was thinking of doing an 'ible on the scone-dough pizza, but it's stinking hot weather so no baking for a while (have actually just been using the griller with a stone, not the whole oven, but it's too hot even for that).
Maybe a bit of Parmesan in the crust for flavour, so it doesn't burn on the bottom of the crust?

[~KGB~]

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