Masa de pizza - pâte à pizza - pizza dough
I have always loved making my own pizza. However, I never liked so much, making my pizza dough, until I learned how to make a pizza with a firm and crispy base. The secret is to sprinkle with semolina instead of flour when rolling the dough. Then, you should bake with the four to the maximum heat. Like that, we can make an excellent pizza, but if we use a baking stone, our homemade pizza comes perfect.
Pizza Dough Recipe (Italian Style)
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Serves: 4 Time: 2 h Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
300 g of flour 000
175 ml of warm water
2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon of salt
5 g of dried yeast or 15 g fresh yeast
Semolina to sprinkle when rolling the dough
Directions
Dissolve yhe yeast in warm water and let stand about 5 minutes.
In a large bowl , add the flour with salt, mix well and make a hole in the center.
In the hole, pour the water with the yeast and olive oil. Gently incorporate the flour with the water with a wooden spoon until you get a ball.
Knead on a cold surface about 10 minutes until obtaining a smooth paste .
Make a ball and grease with olive oil. Put the ball in a large bowl and cover with a clean kitchen cloth.
Let stand in a warm place until the dough has doubled in volume. This can take from 1 hour to 1 hour and a half.
Divide the dough into two equal parts.
Make a ball with each part bringing the edges inwards.
On a cold surface sprinkled with semolina, roll each ball with a rolling pin . To make it as round as possible, give it first the round shape with your hands and mov 1/4 the dough every time you pass the pin. No need to flip the dough.
Done. You can put the ingredients of your choice and bake .
Hints, Tips, and Tricks
To bake the pizza, preheat the oven to 250°C and bake the pizza on the bottom of the oven. This way, it will give time for the dough to bake inside without burning the ingredients you have added.
For a perfect pizza, you can use a baking stone.
Do not confuse the yeast with baking powder for desserts.
To make the dough to rise faster, heat the oven at 50 º C when the oven is hot, stop it and put inside the bowl with the dough. The dough will rise in half an hour.
You can use a pizza peel to place the pizza in the oven esily.
