Monday, January 25, 2010

Pizza Dough

Keep an eye out, I'm still trying to perfect my pizza dough.

But for the basic dough, you want:
  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
  • 1 cup of luke-warm water
  • 2 tablespoons of olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 2 teaspoons of sugar
  1. dissolve the yeast in the 1 cup of luke-warm water
  2. in a large bowl combine everything else
  3. add the yeast mixture until you have a stiff dough. I like to add it in slowly, sometimes its too much water, sometimes not enough
  4. cover dough and allow to rise until about twice the original size
  5. preheat oven to 350
  6. now the fun part of forming the dough: liberal on the flour, and use your own technique til you get some shape that resembles a pizza dough
  7. make your pizza with any topping you want.
  8. cook for about 20 minutes, or until its as cooked as you want it too.
I can tell you that the amount of dough this yields is more than one 12" pan pie unless you like it deep.