Some things matter. World peace, falling in love, getting an education, spending time with your family... and using fresh pizza dough. The flavour of fresh dough improves any pizza and with a recipe this fast and easy theres no excuse for using a pre-made base when you can take your pizza to the next level whipping up this quick delicious base.
Easy Peasy Pizza Dough
Prep time: (20 plus proving time) Cooking time:As needed by pizza recipe Serves:6
Ingredients:
- 750g plain flour
- 250g wholemeal flour
- 14 grams of yeast
- 2 teaspoons of fine sea salt
- 2 tablespoons of castor sugar
- 600ml-650ml warm water
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil
Method:
1.In a jug or bowl, mix water, oil, yeast and sugar, cover with gladwrap and set aside for 3 minutes.
2. In a large mixing bowl or bowl of your mixmaster using a dough hook, add in your flour and salt.
3. In a mixing bowl form a well and add yeast mixture and use a fork to bring in the sides of the well and gradually combine until a rough ball is formed. If using a mixmaster turn onto the dough 'kneed' setting and pour in yeast mixture.
5.Turn out the dough onto a floured surface and kneed until the ball is smooth and springs to the touch.
6. Place the dough into a bowl lightly sprayed with oil and cover with a tea towel dampened in warm water and leave in a warm place for roughly an hour or until doubled in size.
7. Put the dough back onto a flour dusted service and knock the air out of it by kneeding it again and divide the dough into 6 even pieces, if freezing wrap in glad wrap and freeze immediately.
8. If using straight away, roll the dough into a circle or a rectangle about .5-1cm thick, place on a pizza tray or baking tray sprayed with oil and top with your favourite pizza toppings and bake until the bottom is crispy.
*Tip* When cooking pizza from the frozen dough, make sure you allow the dough to become fully thawed and room temperature before its rolled.
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