Easy Pizza Recipe
A trouble-free recipe for cheese and tomato pizza. To begin with we provide a recipe for making the dough - significant to the entire success of the pizza. Then we show you how to make a tasty topping.
For the pizza dough you will need:
- 1tsp - salt
- 120ml - warm water
- 1tbsp - olive oil
- White Flour 225g
- 1tsp - yeast (the fast action type if possible)
- Sugar 0/5tsp
For the pizza topping you will need:
- 125g - Buffalo mozzarella
- 4tbsp - Tomato Sauce
- 1tsp - Oregano Died
- salt, pepper
To Make The Pizza Dough:
1) Add salt, flour together and blend yeast and sugar. Then mix well with your hands and make a small hole in the middle of the mix for the olive oil and water to be added.
2) Adding the oil and water, blend together with your hands. Add additional flour and water if required.
3) Keep mixing for about three minutes or until the mix is one ball and the bowl is fairly clean.
4) Move the dough to a floured surface and carry on kneading until the dough becomes smooth and elastic.
5) Now you leave your dough to rise, an hour should be more or less enough time. 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 something like double its original size.
7) Return the dough to a floured surface and knead for a few more minutes.
8) Stretch out the dough in a circle. Decide how thick or thin you want your pizza base to be.
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 the pizza base. Now scatter the 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 approximately fifteen 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 4-7 minutes.
Feel free to add ingredients to the topping, e.g. meat, vegetables or fish.
