Homemade Pizza Better than Restaurants

Homemade Pizza Better than Restaurants

Pizza is a dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as anchovies, mushrooms, onions, olives, pineapple, meat, etc.), which is then baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven.

In Italy, pizza served in a restaurant is presented unsliced, and is eaten with the use of a knife and fork. In casual settings, however, it is cut into wedges to be eaten while held in the hand.

The term pizza was first recorded in the 10th century in a Latin manuscript from the Southern Italian town of Gaeta in Lazio, on the border with Campania. The modern pizza was invented in Naples, and the dish and its variants have since become popular in many countries

Homemade Pizza Video Tutorial

Homemade Pizza Better than Restaurants

Ingredients

For the Dough:

3 ½ cups of All-Purpose Flour

2 tsp Salt

1 tsp Sugar

2 Tbsp of Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1 1/3 cups of Warm Water, 110 degrees

1 Envelope of Yeast

For the tomato sauce:

1 tbsp olive oil

1 onion, peeled and finely chopped

1 garlic clove, peeled and finely chopped

2 cups of chopped tomatoes

1 tsp dried oregano

1⁄2 glass of red wine

Instructions:

To make the dough:

1) Add the yeast to warm water and set it aside for about 3 minutes.

2) In the bowl of a standing mixer, fitted with a dough attachment, mix together the flour, salt, sugar, and olive oil. Stir the yeast in the water to make sure it's all dissolved and add it to the flour mixture.

3) With the speed on medium, mix until everything is combined. Reduce the speed to low and mix for 10 minutes.

4) Oil 2 bowls with olive oil and set aside. Divide the dough into two pieces and roll it into a ball. Place each ball of dough into the oiled bowls, seam side down, and brush the tops of the dough with a little oil to stop them from drying out. Place a piece of plastic wrap on top of each bowl and place the dough into a warm place. Inside a microwave or an oven (oven turned off) works best.

5) To make the sauce simply mix together all of the sauce ingredients and adjust the seasonings to your taste. Set aside.

6) To make the pizzas, preheat the oven to 475 degrees and place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat it for 20 minutes. (if you don’t have a pizza stone you can use a large baking sheet just place it in the oven upside down so there are no edges)

7) Sprinkle some flour onto your counter, take 1 ball of dough and dredge it in the flour on all sides. Using your hands (watch the video for proper instructions) or a rolling pin, roll the dough out to a 10-inch circle.

8) Using a pizza peel (or a baking sheet upside down so that there are no edges) place the rolled-out pizza dough on it and start topping it. To make a red pizza, using a ladle add the sauce, and using the back of the ladle swirl it all over the top of the dough.

Top it with the shredded cheese and using the pizza peel slide it onto the pizza stone. Cook for 20 minutes, rotating halfway through to ensure even cooking.