Pizza

Pizza Dough

Ingredients

• 2 packets of instant yeast
• 2 pinches sugar (1/4 tsp)
• 1 cup warm water (235ml)
• 12oz hard (bread) flour
• 2 T Olive oil
• 1 tsp salt

Method

Combine yeast, sugar and water in a jug let sit for 10 mins. (this kind of yeast does not require this step, but we still do it)

Put flour into mixing bowl, making a well in the centre, add salt, oil and yeast mixture. using a spoon, gradually pull the dry ingredients into the wet to for a sticky, loose dough. it helps to have a rubber or silicone spatula for this. have flour available to get the dough velvety, and to dust your hands and worktop. we're talking up to a cup of flour depending on the humidity in the room. once it's possible to work the dough with hands, turn out onto floured surface and knead for 10 mins, adding flour as needed to keep from sticking. form into a nice ball, put it into a lightly oiled bowl cover with a moist towel for 1 hour. form into crust by flattening ball into a plump disc by pressing down on it, then, using thumbs and starting at the middle of the disc, turning it like a steering wheel. it will start to droop if you go too slow, so it may be easier to make 2 smaller discs/pizzas until you are good at working the dough. put onto a pizza pan/stone of your choice. we use a round tray with holes in it sprinkled with corn meal. if cooking the crust to top later, cook for 5 mins at high temp if you are cooking the dough with toppings at the same time, put it in for about (you ought to babysit it the whole time really) 15 minutes at around 230 degrees c.

Pizza Sauce

• 1 cup Passata
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 rashers of bacon, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• large pinch each of basil and oregano (dried is good)
• 1 tsp weapons grade BBQ sauce (or ketchup)
• squirt of chilli sauce to taste

Method

Simmer the passata to reduce a little. fry the shit out of onion and bacon, adding garlic towards the end, drain on kitchen roll. Add bacon etc, herbs and sauces to the passata and simmer a little more. apply about 1 ladel-full to dough.

Tints and Hips

• Put toppings between 2 layers of cheese, this keeps stuff where it should be.
• Morrisons is sells full pepperoni sticks.
• cheap mozzarella is good, the posh stuff (in wetness) is bad.
• Cook any raw toppings (like spicy beefs, sausage, bacon) before putting on the pizza
• Use left over raw dough to make garlic bread (recipe below)

garlic bread

get dough into thin round shape mix 1 tsp of butter and 2-6 cloves of crushed garlic. put onto half of the dough, then fold the dough over the butter to make a half moon.

cook until food.

eat.

--OR--

just stick oil and garlic onto pizza base.