1. How to make Pizza like an Italian for beginners
First of all, you will need these ingredients for your perfect delicious Pizza:
(for 2 Pizzas)
- Flour: 500g
- Water (warm): 300ml
- Olive Oil: 30ml
- Beer Yeast: 5g
- Table Salt: 10g
- Mozzarella
- Basil
- Tomato Sugo
- Time
1.1 How to make Pizza like an Italian – Dough (2 hours before)
Firstly, the dough needs at least 2 hours to rest, so plan your time. Then prepare your warm (30C) water in a cup and add the yeast and stir well. In a big bowl put your 500g flour (sifted flour better), add your water-yeast cup slowly while showing your muscles, its time for kneading the dough !Eventually, after having added the warm water, salt the dough. Now don’t stop kneading until your dough is compact like in the picture below, when it is, it’s time for adding to the dough the olive oil. Finally, knead the dough even more and put it then into the big bowl, close it with a polythene foil, place it at a warm place and let it rest for 2 hours. The dough will double its size because of the yeast.
1.2 How to make Pizza like an Italian – Shaping the dough
*….2 hours later* ring ring, quit your smartphone clock and check your Pizza dough and start heating your oven. *Wow*, is now your reaction, the dough has grown and is now ready to be shaped. At the beginning cut your dough into 2 pieces as we want 2 Pizzas afterwards. Furthermore, in the picture below you see the dough already tendered with the rolling spin, try to prepare your dough that way, shape it not too thin and not too thick.
1.3 How to make Pizza like an Italian – Design your Pizza
You are now enjoying the funniest part of our Pizza process. Prepare two baking sheets with baking paper and place your dough. Begin designing your pizza with the tomato sugo but ignore the edge of the pizza. Secondly, cut your Mozzarella in little pieces and add it on top of your Pizza. Thirdly, put on your Pizza Basil and other ingredients you like. Ready, put the Pizzas in the oven! The baking time of a Pizza depends on the thickness of the dough, normally you should bake your Pizza 15-20min on 250 C.
1.4 How to make Pizza like an Italian – Enjoy your Pizza !
Finally! Your Pizza is ready now, you already know the next step, exactly, EAT and ENJOY 🙂 Read here about my last receipt of how to cook Pasta like an Italian.
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