Pizza Crust (Basic)

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If you are like me, you will not be buying pizzas anymore once you learnt to make your own pizzas. Here is the recipe to make pizza base so that you can have delicious pizzas with your favouite toppings any time of the day/week. 

Ingredients (males two 8" round pan pizza)

200g bread flour

1 teaspoon instant yeast

2 teaspoon sugar

2/3 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon olive oil

140ml warm water

Method

1. Put bread flour into mixing bowl, instant yeast and sugar on one side of the bowl, salt and olive oil on the opposite side. Pour in warm water into the yeast. Reserve 10 to 20ml of water, do not pour all in at once. 

2. Use dough scrapper/cutter to mix, turning the mixing bowl at the same time.

3. Once the dough comes together, use hand to knead until you get a pliable dough. The dough will be sticky at first but will become smooth as you knead. Your hands should be clean once you are done kneading.

4. Shape into a ball and lightly grease the mixing bowl with olive oil. Place the dough ball (seam side down) into the mixing bowl, cover with a plastic sheet and place the mixing bowl in a warm area for fermentation, around 30mins. Fermentation is completed when the dough has doubled in size. This website has a clear writeup on how to check whether the dough has risen enough for shaping.

5. Punch down the dough and divide into two (to make two pizzas of 8" diameter, the size of a personal pan pizza). Roll each dough into a small ball. Place one dough ball on a baking pan (lightly greased with olive oil) and press the dough with both hands into an 8" round. Repeat for the other dough ball.

6. Brush pizza with olive oil (to prevent dough from becoming soggy). Add tomato sauce and bake the pizza base @ 250C for 5 mins, or until the edges (as well as the bottom of the pizza base) are light golden. Transfer the baked pizza base to a cooling rack to cool. Once cooled, wrap the pizza base with cling wrap and store in freezer. Try: Oven top grill with fan mode at 200C for 15mins.

7. When ready to serve, take the pizza base from the freezer. Add more tomato sauce, your favourite toppings and bake the pizza @250C for 10 mins.

 

Try: thin crust pizza

600g bread flour

1 tsp yeast

30g sugar

100g oil

300g water

1 tsp salt

Mix flour, yeast and sugar

Add veg oil and water, knead until half smooth, add salt, knead again until smooth

Divide into 3, roll over pan (25 x 38), pierce the dough with a fork,

apply olive oil, sauce and toppings

leave for 15mins

bake in 220C oven 15mins until done