How To Make Homemade Pizza
Easy to follow, basic mozzarella pizza recipe to learn how to make pizza at home
Ingredients
For the pizza dough
- 1 ⅓ cups flour 165 g
- ¼ tbsp active dry yeast 2 g
- ⅔ tbsp extra virgin olive oil 10 ml + 1-2 tbsp for the mixing bowl
- ⅜ cups lukewarm water 100 ml
- ⅓ tsp sugar
- ⅓ tsp salt
For the sauce and the toppings
- 4 tbsp tomato purée (passata) 66 g
- extra virgin olive oil a few drops
- 1 pinch dried oregano
- 1 pinch Salt
- 4 ½ oz fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced 125 g
Instructions
- Add flour, active dry yeast, sugar and salt to a large mixing bowl, then olive oil and lukewarm water.
- Using your dough hook, knead your pizza dough for 10 minutes.
- Place your pizza dough in a large bowl, previously oiled with about 1-2 tsp extra virgin olive oil. Move it around with your hand so that all parts should be covered with oil. Let it rest for 90 minutes, covered.
- Preheat the oven to the highest heat possible. Push the air out of your dough. Form a ball with the palm of your hand. Let it rise on a lightly floured work surface for 15 minutes, covered with a kitchen towel. Make sure you dust the top of your dough ball with some flour.
- On a baking sheet or pizza pan, roll the dough out into a 12-inch circle.
- Put tomato purée (passata) on top of your pizza dough, in the middle. With a back of a spoon, using circular motions towards the edges, make sure the tomato covers your pizza dough. Leave an edge about 1 inch (2-3 cm) thick.
- Drizzle olive oil, add salt and dried oregano.
- Top it with the sliced (or teared) mozzarella.
- Put your homemade pizza in the oven. Bake until the edges are golden brown, about 8-12 minutes.
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