Pizza dough
11/11/2021
Of course the pizza dough had to feature in this section! Who doesn't love a nice homemade pizza? It's a super simple recipe but here I share the one I make which leads to a nice fluffy pizza. I think the secret lies in the rising phase, I tend to let it rise almost an entire day.
Ingredients
- 500g of strong or bread flour - to know which flour to use, look at the flour label and if the protein content is between 12-13 then it's the right one. Of course, this is the case if you want to let the pizza rise all night or a whole day like I do, otherwise mix the bread flour with the all purpose flour almost at 50-50 di farina
- 300ml of room temperature water
- 30ml of olive oil
- 1 bag of dry yeast
- 1tsp of sugar
- 1tsp of salt
Procedure
If you want to you can knead the dough with the planetary mixer but by hand is just as fine
- in a cup melt the sugar with the yeast and a bit of water
- in a bowl mix the flour with the salt and start incorporating the melted yeast, rest of the water and the oil
- knead for a few minutes until you get a smooth dough
- let the dough rest and rise covered by either film or the lid of the bowl for at least 2-3 hours - bear in mind that it will triple it's size if not more when picking the bowl. As I said, I let it rise for 24 hours. Just be careful in the summer with the heat, you'll have to keep the dough in a cool room and check it after the first 6 hours and then every other hour otherwise if overrises the dough will become acidic and will be ruined.
- take the dough and stretch it out with your fingers to the size of the baking tray or in case in small baby pizzas
- garnish it as you prefer
- bake in the over at 200°C for 20 minutes