Today, we will tell you how to make pizzaat home, and a truly delicious pizza: with slightly crispy, but at the same time soft dough, hot sauce and aromatic filling. In a word, home cooking challenges pizzerias. Pizza has long since turned from an Italian brand into an international one. This simple and very tasty food is prepared on all continents, and everywhere there are their own highlights. But the main ingredients - dough, tomatoes, cheese - remain unchanged. Can pizza be called fast food? Probably yes. But this is the most harmless fast food - just a flatbread with a filling. Note that the dough in which you can wrap something is present in the cuisines of all peoples. How to make a delicious pizza? It is very important to make the right dough. Each pizzeria has its own recipe for making dough, which is kept secret. We have no secrets, and we want to offer you several pizza options to give you the opportunity to choose the only recipe that will become your signature. So, recipe one.
Homemade pizza with Mozzarella cheese
Ingredients for the dough:
- 2 cups of flour
- tablespoon dry yeast
- 50 ml of olive oil
- 300 ml of warm water
- a teaspoon of salt
- 2 tablespoons of sugar
Method of dough preparation:Add yeast, salt, sugar to the sifted flour and mix well. Then gradually pour in water, olive oil and knead the dough. It should become quite elastic and come away from your hands. Cover the bowl with the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place for an hour and a half. The dough should increase in volume by about two times. Knead and leave to rise for the same amount of time. Ingredients for the filling:
- 200 grams of mozzarella cheese
- a can of tomatoes canned in its own juice
- a teaspoon of hot chilli sauce
- 2 Bulgarian peppers
- italian herbs
How to make pizza:Spread the dough on a baking sheet, add tomatoes mixed with hot sauce, bell peppers cut into thin strips, shredded mozzarella and sprinkle with Italian herbs. Bake in a preheated oven until done.
Pizza with tuna
Ingredients for the dough:
- 500 grams of flour
- 350 ml of milk
- tablespoon dry yeast
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil
- a teaspoon of salt
- 2 tablespoons of sugar
Method of dough preparation:Add salt, sugar, yeast to the sifted flour and mix. Pour in warm milk and olive oil and knead a soft dough. Put in a warm place to rise. Knead and leave in a warm place for another hour. Ingredients for the filling:
- canned tuna can
- salad bulb
- 150 grams of hot tomato sauce
- 200 grams of cherry tomatoes
- 100 grams of Parmesan cheese
- fresh basil
How to make pizza:Stretch the dough to the size of the baking pan, grease with hot sauce, put pieces of tuna, chopped onion, tomato halves and sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake at 230 degrees until done. Before serving, garnish with basil leaves. And one more recipe - dough for thin pizza.
Thin pizza with ham and sausage Salami
Ingredients for the dough:
- 350 grams of flour
- 250 ml of warm water
- tablespoon dry yeast
- a teaspoon of salt
- a tablespoon of sugar
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
Method of dough preparation:Mix sugar, yeast and 4 tablespoons of warm water. Put in a warm place so that the mixture begins to foam. Sift the flour, mix it with salt and make a well in the center, into which pour olive oil, yeast dissolved in water and the remaining water. Knead the dough and put in a warm place so that it rises. Knead the dough again well and spread it in a thin layer on a baking sheet. Ingredients for the filling:
- 100 grams of ham
- 50 grams of salami
- 100 grams of hot sauce
- 100 grams of cherry tomatoes
- clove of garlic
- 50 grams of Parmesan
How to make pizza:Stretch the dough to the size of the baking dish, grease with sauce, mix together slices of ham and salami, halves of cherry tomatoes, chopped garlic. Sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in the oven at 230 degrees until done. Another important component of a good pizza, which we want to bake at home, is the sauce that is greased on the flatbread before the filling is placed on it. Of course, you can use ready-made sauces that are sold in stores. By trial and error, it is quite possible to find a completely acceptable option. But we advise you to pay attention to the homemade sauce, the recipe for which is posted below.
Pizza sauce
Ingredients:
- 4-5 tomatoes
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil
- hot chili pepper
- 3 cloves of garlic
- green basil
- italian herbs
- salt, pepper to taste
Method of preparation:Peel the tomatoes and chop finely. Heat the oil, add the chili pepper and chopped garlic, simmer lightly. Put the tomatoes in the pan and cook under the lid until all the ingredients turn into a homogeneous mass. Add finely chopped basil, Italian herbs, salt and pepper to taste. If the tomatoes are sour, you can balance the taste with sugar. Note: In winter, when tomatoes do not have much flavor, it is best to use tomatoes canned in their own juice. It is best to use fresh basil; out of season, you can use dried Italian herbs. And a few words about the filling. There are truly a great many options here. As already noted, the main thing is the basic components of each pizza (no matter what filling recipe you choose): tomatoes and cheese. But you can add anything to them: olives, sausage, ham, chicken, fish and seafood - the list is truly endless. To sum it up, we can say the following: pizza is a truly wonderful invention of an unknown baker, which is in demand not only in public catering – home cooking is also not far behind. Choose a suitable dough recipe from those that we offer you, prepare the sauce (there is a recipe too), fantasize with the filling and try to bake pizza. We assure you, you will succeed even on the first try. It’s just that in the future you will improve your skills, perhaps make your own adjustments to the dough recipe and the sauce recipe, decide on your favorite filling and will delight your loved ones with this ancient dish – a flatbread with a filling, which the whole world calls the Italian word “pizza”. Enjoy your meal! We recommend reading:
