Last Thursday, my girl attended a Brownie gathering in school. The teachers and students had a fun time making pizza using bread toasts and condiments they brought along. My daughter is a pizza fan and pestered me to make her pizza over the weekend. I used to make them pizzas using tortilla breads and sometimes I buy ready pizza dough for convenience. However, I decided to make the dough from scratch this time on Saturday. I looked for a pizza dough but ended up deciding to try the one by Amy of Cooking Crave because we both share many similarities in baking and cooking. And I know I can trust her recipes too as sometimes some recipes we get online do not turn out very successful. She has tried making pizza dough for her children and can guide me along should there be any step that I am not too sure.
I followed her recipe. Here is Cooking Crave's Pizza Dough.
The recipe makes 2 pieces of 10" Pizza Base. I didn't make 2 but I made 3 pieces of 7" ones. I can assure you that this pizza dough tastes terrific and I am very sure I want to make them again the next weekend. It is soft yet if you baked it a little longer, the sides will be nice and crispy too. I rolled the pizza to very thin base and place it on a shallow aluminium pan.
The recipe for the dough: (Cooking Crave's recipe)
300 g bread flour/plain flour
2 1/2 tsp instant yeast
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
200 g warm milk (110f/43c)
80 g warm water (110f/43c)
3 tbsp olive oil/corn oil
Method:
Sieve flour and yeast in a bowl. Add in sugar, salt and set aside. In another smaller bowl mix milk, water and olive oil. Pour it to the flour mixture slowly bit by bit and stir till it's well combined. The dough will be sticky at this time. (yes, it's very sticky indeed!)
On a flat surface, dust your hand with some flour and slightly knead the dough for 2-3 minutes until it can forms a ball. ( i added a little more flour than the 300gm, maybe 50-70gm more as the dough stuck to my hands when i kneaded them...)
Place the dough in a greased bowl, cover it with cling film and let it rest for 20 minutes. Remove the cling cover from the dough and punch the dough down so it deflates a bit. Split the dough into 2 and roll it to the 10" round piece. (i made 3x 7" pizza base) Let the dough rest for 5 mins and brush it with some olive oil before we top it with topping.
What I used to top the Pizza.
Hunt's brand of tomato sauce for pasta
I cooked these tomato with some saute onions and some minced beef, add some salt and pepper)
Sliced Ham
Chunks of Crabsticks Meat
Pineapple
Blanched Chopped Spinach
Mozzarella Cheese
Chicken Sausages (sliced)
Prawns (boiled till just cooked and halved)
Sliced button mushrooms
How to top a pizza base.
Always start with the tomato paste/sauce. You can get bottled ones ready to use like Prego's which is a good choice. Then sprinkle some mozzarella cheese, followed by your meat or vegetable of your choice. If you like olives, add the olives second last. And finish with more cheese to secure the toppings down. Like Amy, I also love to add lots and lots of topping till they pizzas are just so heavy as you pick them up! (see picture below...)
Thanks Amy, for the wonderful pizza dough base! My girls love it so much. I was a little worried cos my girl finished the whole 7" pizza! She insisted she can and she did! She seldom ate so much before!
Here are our Pizzas!
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3 comments:
Where you got all this nice recipes? The pizza look great. I was thinking that Pizza Hut had to be ashame as the pizza in pizza hut here is getting more lousy each day! Waste my money to go and eat there.
i usually get recipes from the cookery books in the library, online or from online bloggers and friends... you should try them out.. some are really good and the basis of a good cooking
can i use superfine flour??
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