To meet our weekend theme ~ The Italian Feast....of course not only with the pasta rite?! Another challenge after the home-made sushi....we're going to be Pizzeria and bake home-made Pizza~!!!
Pizza Dough Ingredients:
~ 1 1/2 cups warm water
~ 1 packet active dry yeast / Instant Yeast
~ 3 1/2 cups bread flour (can use all-purpose flour but bread flour gives a crisper crust)
~ 2 Tablespoon olive oil
~ 2 teaspoons salt
~ 1 teaspoons sugar
Pizza Topping Ingredients: (Any other Optional ingredients)
~ Bell Peppers (thinly sliced)
~ Tomatoes (thinly sliced)
~ Onions (thinly sliced)
~ Mushrooms (thinly sliced)
~ Mozzarella cheese (shredded)
~ tomato paste
~ mayonnnaise
~ basil leaves
~ chicken pieces (BBQ Marinated and pre-cooked)
instant yeast
Bread Flour found at Cold Storage, Mid Valley
Steps 1: Making the Pizza Dough
1 1/2 cup water
sprinkle yeast on top of the water and set it aside for 10 minutes until the yeast is dissolved in water
5 minutes later.....
10 minutes later, yeast is completely dissolved in water
Stir to dissolve completely if needed.
measure flour to 3 1/2 cups
add in sugar, salt, olive oil and flour and mixed it with mixer
arghh...i don't have a dough hook for my mixer so i just slightly mixed the mixture with my existing hook
for 1 minute
mixed well the flour then pour in some olive oil and
turn the dough around in the bowl so that it gets coated with the oil
completed dough at 1st Stage (still very sticky)
cover it with plastic wrap and let is sit in a warm place until it doubles in size
about 2 hours or longer.
can see the dough is rising on it own ....a lots of air bubble in between
At completion of my dough at 1st stage, it was still very sticky. Summore, i didn't mixed the dough with a good dough hook, so now i'll need to hand-knead it.
Knead the dough and keep adding in bread flour until the dough is no-longer sticky and gives a smooth surface.
cut the dough into small pieces and set it aside for 2nd stage rising
grow bigger
and bigger now!
the dough is ready to bake!
Steps 2: Toss the pizza dough
sprinkle some bread flour on the baking pan
place the toss dough nicely on the pan
Steps 3: Prepare desired toppings
shredded mozzarella cheese @ RM23
Steps 4: Adding toppings to pizza
spoon on the tomato sauce and spread evenly
add tomatoes
sliced onions
slices mushroom
some basil leaves
sprinkle the top with shredded mozzarella cheese
sent it to the pre-heated oven at 200'C
15 minutes later.....tadaa!
Next.......
spoon on mayonnaise and spread evenly
add mushroom slices
chicken pieces
sliced onions
another coat of mayonnaise
with extra cheese for toppings *without additional charges...keke
bake for 15 minutes or until the bottom is nicely brown
tadaa~!
love the melted cheese topping so much~! Yummy!
My pizza dough turns out unexpectedly good. It was very crunchy and i think it would be even better if i was able to find cornmeal and sprinkle at the bottom of the pizza...keke.
Anyhow, this round consider very successful. The pizza still taste good even after few hours. Very good experienced ...again me n hubby enjoy it so much~!
