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Pizza Dough recipe and ideas

Ingredients

  • 600g cake flour (I use 00 flour)
  • 5ml salt
  • 25g wet yeast
  • 325ml water
  • Pinch of sugar

Instructions

  • 600g cake flour
    5ml salt
    25g wet yeast
    325ml water
    Pinch of sugar
    Mix together
    Turn out onto worktop and knead for 10 min until silky smooth. Oil a bowl and place dough in bowl covered for 2 hours. I left mine for 6 hours. Roll into 125g balls and leave until ready to use
  • Roll out to desired thinness - we like thin and crispy
  • We lit the fire around 5 and enjoyed that over a nice glass of wine. Last night we video called friends in Simon's Town to catch up with how we are all coping with #LockDown
  • Brian prepares the ingredients. These are my favorite ones.
  • Here are some ideas. We did this board so we don't forget  what our options are
  • Ready for the oven
  • I love fresh origanum from my garden it's about the one thing I CAN grown. I also add chilli at this stage
  • Brian is the official pizza cutter. We've had many pizza cutters over the years, we've found the @oxo pizza cutter to be very capable and inexpensive
  • Throw another log on the fire and enjoy the rest of the evening

Pizza dough lesson

  • Mix 600g “00” flour (cake flour will do), 5ml salt, 25g fresh yeast, 375ml water and pinch of castor sugar
  • Knead for 10 min- photo above is after 5 min
  • After 10 min of kneading
  • Place in bowl coated with olive oil and leave to prove for 1 hr knock back and leave for another hour
  • Batch of 8 122-125g balls of dough. Leave covered for additional hr. Roll out and use. I dry cook in frying pan for 2 min a side (the extra) and freeze. This gives them a bit of body and stops them from sticking to each other. Obviously the proper Italian way is to use all the dough.
  • After 2hrs of proving
Course: Dinner, Snack
Keyword: Pizza