Pizza is one of the most popular items of food in the modern day. Given the plethora of options when it comes to the various toppings that can be added to vary the taste of pizza along with the various options of crusts available, pizza certainly provides a juice goodness of flavor to suit various occasions and tastes. The steps below will explain a pizza can be made at home from scratch.

Step 1: Try Out Various Pizzas to Discover Your Favourite Topping

The variety that will be available to pizza lovers will certainly be immense. Always try to taste the different varieties that you will come across as you travel around the world. The tastes that are unique to each destination and location will certainly amaze you and please you. Especially when you are in countries like Australia where multiple ethnicities are found, you will discover a great variety of tastes in pizzas. Hotels such as Oaks Broome which is a leading Broomes hotel can be counted on to serve the best of tastes in their restaurants.

Step 2: Get the Ingredients

The ingredients you will need to make a herbivore pizza including its dough would be as follows:

• ½ cup of warm water

• 2 ¼ teaspoons of active dry yeast

• 2 tablespoons of olive oil

• 3 ½ cups of all purpose flour

• 3 cups of pizza sauce • Cornmeal

• 2 teaspoons of salt

• 4 cups of grated mozzarella cheese

• 1 teaspoon of sugar

• Toppings

The toppings that you can use for a herbivore pizza are purely your choice. Some of the suggestions that can be considered include, cheese, onions, green peppers, olives, mushrooms, basil and pineapple.

Step 1:

Add the yeast in to the warm water and leave for a few minutes. You will notice that the yeast mixture will begin to bubble after a few minutes.

Step 2:

Add flour, olive oil, salt and sugar in to the mixture of yeast and water and mix well. Stir the ingredients well together to form a smooth dough. Keep adding flour if needed if the mixture is watery after a few minutes of kneading.

Step 3:

Form the ingredients in to a ball and coat it with some olive oil. The top of the mixing bowl should be covered with plastic wrap. Allow the mixture to sit for about 2 hours until the dough rises. You will notice that the quantity that you mix is be doubled by this time.

Step 4:

Preheat the oven to around 218 degrees of Celsius. This should be done in advance so the oven has ample time to get heated.

Step 5:

Divide the dough that should by now be raised to two equal parts. Take one part and form it into a ball and place it on a surface that is well sprinkled with flour. Using your hands spread the mixture out to create the circular crust of your first pizza. Repeat the steps for the second part of the dough as well. Spread a thin layer of olive oil on each of the crusts.

Step 6:

Spread pizza sauce along with the toppings of your choice as well as the grated mozzarella cheese on to the crusts.

Step 7:

Sprinkle some cornmeal on to the baking sheet of the oven and place the pizza on it. Bake the pizza for about 20 minutes at the back of the oven. You will notice that the crust will turn in to a golden color and the cheese will start to bubble.

After your first pizza is done, remove it from the oven and place the second pizza and bake for the same length of time.

Let the pizzas cool for a while and then slice and serve. The delight of making your own special pizza to surprise and delight all those special persons of your life will indeed be an effort well worth taking.