Many people like the taste of real, thin and fragrant pizza. But to go to the pizzeria every day and even call the delivery service for some people is unprofitable. Let's recall that this dish originated in the minds of zealous Calabrian housewives who were poor enough to throw away what the family had not finished eating at dinner. Therefore, in the morning they rolled out the dough and laid out on it everything that was left from yesterday: slices of ham, vegetables, cheese. Why don't we follow suit? So, how to make pizza at home, read on.
The hardest step is making the dough.
Of course, the most lazy may limit themselves to buying ready-made cakes in the store. But with the same result, you can buy frozen pizza. That sandwich, which is sold in supermarkets, is not much like an authentic product. homemade pizza should be made of carefully rolled into a thin layer of dough. If the cake has a height of more than a centimeter - this is Georgian khachapuri, Kiev perepichka, but not pizza. For "dummies" it is permissible to buy raw yeast dough (not butter) and roll it at home. For culinary experts with experience, we offer a different option.
How to make homemade pizza
Sift one and a half cups of flour onto the board, put half a spoonful of dried yeast, a spoonful of salt and some dry Italian herbs there. Mix, form a “volcano”, into the mouth of which we fill a glass of warm water and 2 and a half tablespoons of olive (at worst, sunflower) oil. Knead for ten minutes, wrap with a towel and leave to swell in a warm place away from drafts for an hour. During this time, the dough should double.
Filling
While the dough is coming up, we’ll think about the top. homemade pizza It does not limit your imagination in any way, however, it involves two mandatory products. This is ketchup, which can be replaced with tomato paste, and cheese (preferably shabby parmesan with mozzarella cut into small pieces, but anyone is allowed - hard, feta cheese and even processed). Open the refrigerator and look for other ingredients there. They can be: garlic, bell pepper, tomatoes, ham, any sausage, sprats, seafood, green peas or sweet corn, smoked fish and meat. The choice is yours.
Assembly
We turn on the oven at 220 degrees and take on the dough. Sprinkle flour on a cutting board, spread our dough and knead again. We roll it well to get a thin cake (preferably round). We grease the baking sheet with any vegetable oil and put the workpiece there. Grease its top with ketchup or tomato paste. Lay out the ingredients of the selected filling on top. There should be cheese at the very top: sprinkle with grated parmesan or chop with chopped mozzarella. Sprinkle it all lightly with vegetable oil and put in the oven. homemade pizza should be baked for about a quarter of an hour.
A few little secrets
If you use several types of cheese products, then the mildest type is put directly on the dough, for example, ricotta curd, then harder - some kind of yellow (emmental, gouda, etc.), and sprinkle with hard. Because homemade pizza it is baked for a short time, so that the vegetables do not look crispy, as in a salad, it is worth pickling onions, and pre-fry or stew carrots, mushrooms and the like.