Home Made Pizza

  Home Made Pizza

This is  the  best and easiest recipe ever!

Made this pizza recipe topped with a delicious, creamy homemade white sauce, barbecue grilled chicken and green bell peppers. And as it goes without saying.. tons and TONS of cheese. For a few weeks now I've, been trying to perfect homemade pizza but to no avail. The crust was too dry or it wasn't the right texture. The secret to a good homemade pizza is a pizza pan. Usually a pizza stone is used but I've opted for the pan which works just as fine. I got mine at a local bakery store but you can get it online as well. 

Another big factor to a good pizza is the crust. You can spice up your crust by adding garlic powder or dried herbs. However, since my homemade sauce has garlic in it. I've kept my crust plain. 

The white sauce, while it seams daunting is actually very simple. It consists of basic pantry ingredients which can be put together in 5 minutes.  

There also endless topping options here and you could do no harm. Let your creativity run free. Just don't put any gummy bears on your pizza and we should be fine.

Here is how I made it!

Pizza dough

: 2 cups bread flour OR all purpose flour

: 2 1/4 tsp instant dry yeast

: 1 1/2 tsp sugar

: 1/4 tsp salt

: 2tbsp olive oil 

: 3/4 cup warm water

White sauce

: 2 tbsp butter

: 2 tbsp all purpose flour

: 3 cloves garlic ( chopped)

: 1 cup of milk

: 1/4 tsp salt

: Dash of freshly ground pepper

Method to make Home made White Sauce

: Melt butter in a pan over a low heat.

   Add garlic

: Whisk flour into the melted butter.

   Stirring continuously for 2 minutes.

: Turn up the heat slightly, pour in the milk.

: Bring to a simmer. Continue cooking until

  sauce smoothens and thickens.

: Season with salt and pepper.

    

Method to make Pizza dough

: Mix together flour, salt, sugar and yeast

   in a mixing bowl and stir.

: Pour water over the flour and stir to 

  combine.

: Then kneed by hand for 10 minutes until

   the dough becomes smooth. Add a little

   extra water if required. Be sure to only

   add 1 tbsp at a time.

: Form the dough to a big ball and leave

  it to rest in a lightly greesed bowl cover 

  with cling wrap for 60 to 90 minutes or      

  until double the size.

: Once the dough has risen, punch down the

  dough to release the trapped air bubbles.

: Fold and gently pull the sides over the 

  center and turn the dough each time.  

  Repeat 8 times. 

: Use your fingers to flattern and stretch 

  the dough until it covers the 12inch 

  pizza pan.

: Brush the surface with olive oil and use

  a fork to poke holes in the dough to

  prevent air bubbles from forming

  when  it bakes.

: Spread a layer of the home made sauce or

  any sauce you prefer on the dough 

: Add desired toppings  then top with 

  generous amount of mozzarella cheese.

: Baked in a 200c preheated oven for 

  15 minutes or until the crust  are golden

  brown.

Enjoy!

Note:  Bake pizza on the lower rack of your

            oven to ensure the crust is closer

            to the heat .

         

          : You can pinch the edges to make a 

            crust or fold it over to make a 

            thicker crust.

          : You can make this dough in advance

            Let it to rise in room temperature,

            punch down the dough and wrap

            with cling wrap and store in

            refrigerator. When ready to make

            pizza , remove the dough from the

            refrigerator and allow to rest for

            30 minutes before preparing the

            pizza topping.

          : Pre cook your proteins before adding              onto the pizza dough  

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