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Pizza Dough Recipe
For the pizza dough, throw the following ingredients into a bread maker and set
to the pizza dough setting –
- 350g strong white plain flour
- 7g easy blend yeast sachet
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 225ml (8 fl oz) milk (or water)
- optional – teaspoon of sugar or honey
- optional – 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- optional – 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper
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This takes a couple of hours so you do have to plan ahead with the dough. I have
included sugar and salt as optional extras - it's up to you if you want to add them
- we all have too much salt and sugar and it is not really necessary in this recipe.
Pizza Hut (and they are not alone) have the opposite view - you have to drink a
gallon of water after one of their pizzas to quench the salt thirst!
Using this amount of dough, you can make 3 pizza bases – either 12-inch thin crust
or 8-inch deep-dish or thereabouts – you might have different size trays and maybe
only get 2 pizza bases. Divide the dough into 3 roughly equal amounts and using
a rolling pin on a floured surface, roll to roughly the same size as the pizza trays
that you are using.
I am making 2 x 8-inch deep-dish pizza bases and 1 x 12-inch thin crust pizza base.
This is enough dough to feed a family of 4 – 2 adults and 2 small children. If you
have any little helpers knocking about, get them to help roll the pizzas - get them
involved from an early age and they grow up thinking it is normal to make pizza
with fresh ingredients rather than pulling a piece of cardboard out of the freezer.
Plus with fresh pizza, you know exactly what you are eating - you can skip on the
salt and the sugar for instance. Don't go overboard though and try using wholemeal
flour - that is just rank!
Liberal use of olive oil in the pizza trays – obviously not the trays with the holes
in though! Pop the pizza base in the trays and fold the edges if a little too big.
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