Today, ordering ready-made pizza to your home or office is not at all a problem. Dozens of restaurants and pizzerias vying offer their services, including Lac Pizza. But if you have a little time and a lot of desire, you can make pizza yourself. Thus, you will prove to yourself that you will do the task no worse than the cook of a well-known institution.
There are three "whales" on which real pizza is held: tomato sauce, dough and cheese. Everything else is a matter of your taste and imagination. If there are no problems regarding cheese - you just need to buy a suitable one, then there are special requirements for dough and tomato paste . Let’s try to cook it all according to the rules of Italian cuisine.
Knead a yeast-free pizza dough
Ingredients:
- kefir - 0.5 cups;
- vegetable oil (preferably olive) - a third of a glass;
- flour - about 300 g;
- sugar - 3 teaspoons;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- soda - half a teaspoon.
Pour soda into a glass with kefir and wait 10 minutes until it is extinguished. Sift the flour thoroughly. Pour kefir into the bowl in which we will prepare the dough, put salt and sugar there and pour the butter. Mix thoroughly and gradually pour the flour. Mesim carefully, until the mass ceases to stick to his hands. We close the finished dough with foil and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
We prepare yeast dough, as in the Lac Pizza restaurant, only better
Ingredients:
- water - 1/2 cup;
- dry yeast - 1 sachet;
- vegetable oil (preferably olive) - 1 table. l .;
- flour - 200 g;
- salt - 1/3 teaspoon.
Mix the dry ingredients. We heat the water to 38 degrees, add oil to it, mix thoroughly. Pour the resulting liquid into a bowl with flour, yeast and salt. Knead the dough until it stops sticking to your hands. Then tighten it with cling film and leave for 40 minutes.
Delicious tomato sauce
Of course, you can use ready-made ketchup, but we are preparing real pizza, not shang with sausage and tomatoes. We will compete in skill with the cooks of the Lac Pizza restaurant.
Ingredients:
- Ripe tomatoes - 5 pcs.
- Tomato paste - 1-2 table. l
- Herbs: oregano, thyme, basil or your favorite - not sparing.
- Ground black pepper - at your discretion.
- Vegetable oil - 2-3 table. l
- Water - half a glass.
- Sugar - 40 g.
- Salt - 1/2 tsp.
Heat oil in a pan, put finely chopped tomatoes, simmer over medium heat until soft. Then add all remaining ingredients to the tomatoes, mix thoroughly and continue the stewing process for about 10 minutes, reducing the heat. I assure you: even if you order the finished product in Lucky Pizza in St. Petersburg and compare with what you got as a result, the comparison will not be in favor of the purchased products. Do not regret the time and energy spent.
We are preparing the classic Margarita: as in the famous Lac Pizza, only tastier
Ingredients:
- Our own prepared pizza dough.
- Our tomato sauce.
- Fresh tomatoes: cherry - 7 pcs. or those you like more - 4 pcs.
- Mozzarella cheese - 200 g.
- Parmesan cheese - 70 g.
- Fresh basil (preferably green) - 1 bunch.
Roll out the dough very thinly in a circle. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 200 degrees. We grease the pizza mold with oil or line it with baking paper. We spread the dough into a mold and generously lubricate it with our sauce. Stack the cut tomatoes on top : cherry - in half, others - in circles. Mozzarella cheese is also cut into mugs and placed on tomatoes. Sprinkle everything on top with Parmesan cheese, finely grated. "Luck Pizza" nervously smokes on the sidelines, seeing the masterpiece that we have. Put this miracle in the oven and bake no more than 10 minutes. A signal of readiness will be the appearance of a golden crust around the edge. Decorate the finished pizza with basil leaves and serve.
Almost in any large city in Russia there are Lucky Pizza restaurants: Sterlitamak or Chelyabinsk, St. Petersburg or Moscow - everywhere you can order a finished product. But just imagine this divine aroma of baking pizza floating around the house - and all doubts will disappear. Bake yourself!