Homemade Pizza (21/11/2010 10:13)

I like cooking. After a long day of staying in front of a PC and working with bits, all kinds of registers, programming injection timming, dwell time, MAF aquisition and engine synchronization, 2-3 hours of cooking really relax me. I cooked all kinds of food: soups, spaghetti bolognese, main courses and of course sweets. But one of the things that I didn't cook was pizza. I always preffered to buy one. It was easier and quicker. Until last week, when I decided that it's time for my first pizza (including making the dough - if you make a pizza with a bought dough it's like you didn't make any pizza). First thing was to buy a special pizza tray. I bought one of 28cm in diameter. ( from my experience it's important to have the right tools for the right recipe).

First I made the dough (the ingredients may be adapted proportionally depending on how thick you want the dough to be and how big the pizza tray is):

- 250g of flour

- 1 teaspoon of salt

- 3 spoons of olive oil

- 150 ml of water

- 14g of yeast

- 1/2 of spoon of sugar

 

I heated the water to 38 celsius degrees and I put the sugar and the yeast. I left the yest until it transformed into a foam on the water. Than I poured everything over the other ingredients. Than I kneaded evertyhing for 15 minutes. (if necessary flour may be added). The dough should not stivk on your hands but should be soft enough. After that I left the dough to yeasr for 30 minutes. It should double it's size.

During this I prepared the souce:

- tomatoe souce

- salt

-peper

- sugar

- basil

- oregano

- olive oil

- and every spice that you like

I boiled everything for 20 minutes (it depends of much water is in the tometoe sauce). It should result in something that has the consistency of shake.

Now I oiled the pizza tray (obviously with olive oil). Than I spread the dough to the pizza tray shape and I put in the tray. I creamed the dough with half of the tomatoe sauce. And that I put ham, bacon, mushrooms and cheese. (here you can put anything you want and you like. I made a lighter version because my wife is breast nursing and the food should not be very spicy). On top I put the other half of the tomatoe sauce.

Than I put the pizza in the oven for 25 minutes at 270 celsius degrees.

 

And here is the result

Bon apetit !