Pizza 101
Pizza from scratch
Servings 2 click to scale
Calories
Ingredients
Pizza Dough
- 5 cups all purpose flour save 1 cup for dusting
- 1.5 Tbsp instant yeast
- 1.5 tsp sea salt
- 1 Tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 cup plain cornmeal for dusting
- 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1.5 cups warm water
Pizza Toppings
- 2-4 cups mozzarella shredded
- 3 cups tomato sauce or pizza sauce
Sample Toppings
- 5 oz pepperoni
- 4 oz white mushrooms sliced
- 6 oz roasted red peppers sliced
- 1 oz black pitted olives sliced
Instructions
Making the dough
- Warm .5 cups of water to 100-120F.
- Dissolve sugar and yeast into warm water, rest for 5 minutes.
- In a separate bowl combine flour and salt. Add yeast liquid and olive oil to flour mixture.
- Using a fork, mix until well combined and pulls away from sides of the bowl. By hand, stretch the dough into a ball, smoothing the top and tucking it into the bottom.
- Place dough ball into the bowl, cover with a towel, rest for 10-15 minutes.
- Split dough in half and form two smaller balls (or more for smaller pizzas).
- On a flour dusted surface stretch each dough ball with a rolling pin, about a 1/4inch thick.
- Place dough on a pizza paddle or inverted sheet pan dusted with cornmeal.
Add toppings and cook
- Preheat oven to 500F.
- Top dough with desired pizza toppings.
- Slide dough onto preheated inverted sheet pan or pizza stone. Bake for about 12 minutes in oven.
- Remove from oven, place on cutting board, cool for 3-5 minutes.
- Slice and enjoy!
