How do you make Pizza?.?!
How do you make Pizza?.?
Answers:
Like Neapolitans. (Brick oven) (--,)
pizza cake really,,,
Go buy a frozen crust in the grocerie store and put whatever you like on it. Put it in the oven at about 350 and watch it so that it doesn't burn
Experiment!
I open a can of Pizza Pringles or dip crackers in tomato sauce with cheese added.
microwave oven
Easy way: Buy a frozen one and bake it as directed.
Harder way: Buy the prebaked crust, sauce, shredded mozzarella and all your favorite toppings and bake it.
Hard way: Make your dough and make your crust, Make your pizza sauce and add toppings as before.
Tells you how here,
http://pizzaware.com/howtomakepizza.htm...
Depends how difficult you like it to be. You can buy all made ingredients basically, and put them together. It should cook at 400 for about 8-11 minutes. Also, it works best if you have a pizza stone in your oven. They are available basically any store like Target, Macys Home Store, etc. for about $30. It'll make it taste really authentic. Obviously you can also make your own dough and sauce. . Then just top with cheese and whatever sort of toppings you like. Most pizzeria's will also sell their dough to you.
I will again pass along my favorite Mario Batali recipe...this is my favorite homemade pie...
Pizza Margherita
Pizza Dough:
1 cup warm water
1 1/2 ounces fresh yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon kosher salt
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup passata
8 ounces fresh mozzarella, sliced into 12 equal pieces
8 leaves fresh basil
Combine the water, sugar, and yeast in a large bowl and stir until dissolved. Add salt and 1 cup of the flour and mix with a wooden spoon to make a loose batter. Add 2 more cups of the flour and stir with the spoon for 2 to 3 minutes to incorporate as much flour as possible.
Bring the dough together by hand and turn out onto a floured board or marble surface. Knead for 6 to 8 minutes, until you have made a smooth, firm dough. Place the dough in a lightly oiled bowl and cover with a towel. Set aside to rise in the warmest part of the kitchen for 45 minutes.
Cut the risen dough into 4 equal pieces and knead each portion into a round. Cover again and let rest 15 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Place a clean pizza stone in oven to preheat.
Dust a clean work surface lightly with flour. With your fingers and palms, flatten one of the dough rounds into a 10-inch oval about 1/4-inch thick. Spread 1/4 cup of the passata evenly on entire surface of dough, leaving 1/4-inch of dough to form edge of pizza. Take one piece of mozzarella, slice into 4 uniform slices and put on top of passata. Rip 2 leaves of basil into smaller pieces and sprinkle on top of mozzarella. Slide pizza directly onto pizza stone and bake 15 to 18 minutes, until edge of pizza is golden brown and cheese is bubbling. Repeat with remaining 3 dough balls and serve hot.
Recipe adapted from Mario Batali: Holiday Food
Other Pizza Suggestions:
Pizza Marinara:
Pizza dough, recipe from above
4 plum tomatoes
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
4 teaspoons fresh oregano, roughly chopped
4 cloves fresh garlic, sliced thinly
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Prepare dough as directed. Thinly slice one tomato and place on dough. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil over entire pizza. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon oregano and 1 clove thinly sliced garlic over tomatoes. Bake on a pizza stone until crust is golden brown, about 15 minutes. Repeat with remaining dough. Serve hot.
Enjoy it!!
Homemade Pizza Recipe
Making the Pizza Dough
Makes enough dough for two 10-12 inch pizzas
1 1/2 cups warm water (105°F-115°F)
1 package (2 1/4 teaspoons) of active dry yeast (check the expiration date on the package)
3 1/2 cups bread flour (can use all-purpose but bread flour will give you a crisper crust)
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 In the large bowl of a heavy duty electric mixer (such as a Kitchen Aid), add the warm water. Sprinkle on the yeast and let sit for 5 minutes until the yeast is dissolved. Stir to dissolve completely if needed at the end of 5 minutes.
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2 Attach a mixing paddle to the mixer. Mix in the olive oil, flour, salt and sugar on low speed for about a minute. Remove the mixing paddle and replace with a dough hook. Knead using the mixer and dough hook, on low to medium speed, until the dough is smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. If you don't have a mixer, you can mix and knead by hand.
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3 Place ball of dough in a bowl that has been coated lightly with olive oil. Turn the dough around in the bowl so that it gets coated with the oil. Cover with plastic wrap. Let sit in a warm place (75-85°F) until it doubles in size, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours. If you don't have a warm spot in the house you can heat the oven to 150 degrees, and then turn off the oven. Place the bowl of dough in this warmed oven to rise.
At this point, if you want to make ahead, you can freeze the dough in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
Preparing the Pizzas
Ingredients
Olive oil
Cornmeal (to slide the pizza onto the pizza stone)
Toppings such as
Tomato sauce
Mozzarella or Parmesan cheese, shredded
Feta cheese
Mushrooms, thinly sliced
Bell peppers, stems and seeds removed, thinly sliced
Italian sausage, cooked ahead
Chopped fresh basil
Pesto
Pepperoni, thinly sliced
Onions, thinly sliced
Sliced ham
Special equipment needed
A pizza stone, highly recommended if you want your pizza dough to be crusty
A pizza peel or a flat baking sheet
A pizza wheel for cutting the pizza, not required, but easier to deal with than a knife
1 Place a pizza stone on a rack in the lower third of your oven. Preheat the oven to 450°F for at least 30 minutes, preferably an hour.
2 Remove the plastic cover from the dough and punch the dough down so it deflates a bit. Divide the dough in half. Form two round balls of dough. Place each in its own bowl, cover with plastic and let sit for 10 minutes.
3 Prepare your desired toppings. Note that you are not going to want to load up each pizza with a lot of toppings as the crust will end up not crisp that way. About a third a cup each of tomato sauce and cheese would be sufficient for one pizza. One to two mushrooms thinly sliced will cover a pizza.
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4 Working one ball of dough at a time, take one ball of dough and flatten it with your hands on a slightly floured work surface. Starting at the center and working outwards, use your fingertips to press the dough to 1/2-inch thick. Turn and stretch the dough until it will not stretch further. Let the dough relax 5 minutes and then continue to stretch it until it reaches the desired diameter - 10 to 12 inches. Use your palm to flatten the edge of the dough where it is thicker. You can pinch the very edges if you want to form a lip.
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5 Brush the top of the dough with olive oil (to prevent it from getting soggy from the toppings). Use your finger tips to press down and make dents along the surface of the dough to prevent bubbling. Let rest another 5 minutes.
Repeat with the second ball of dough.
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6 Lightly sprinkle your pizza peel (or flat baking sheet) with corn meal. Transfer one prepared flattened dough to the pizza peel. If the dough has lost its shape in the transfer, lightly shape it to the desired dimensions.
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7 Spoon on the tomato sauce, sprinkle with cheese, and place your desired toppings on the pizza.
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8 Sprinkle some cornmeal on the baking stone in the oven (watch your hands, the oven is hot!). Gently shake the peel to see if the dough will easily slide, if not, gently lift up the edges of the pizza and add a bit more cornmeal. Slide the pizza off of the peel and on to the baking stone in the oven. Bake pizza one at a time until the crust is browned and the cheese is golden, about 10-15 minutes. If you want, toward the end of the cooking time you can sprinkle on a little more cheese.
Links:
Garlic Chicken Pizza:
25 min 10 min prep
4 servings
4 ounces light cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup nonfat sour cream
2 cloves garlic, mashed
1 cup cooked chickens, diced
1/2 cup red onions, cut in rings
1/2 tomato, chopped
1/2 cup mushrooms, sliced
1 cup mozzarella cheese, part skim milk,shredded
1 pizza dough
3 tablespoons parmesan cheese
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix together the cream cheese, sour cream and mashed garlic until smooth.
3. Spread on the pizza crust.
4. Top with the chicken, onion, tomato, mushrooms and cheese.
5. Bake for 15 minutes or until the crust is done and the cheese is melted.
6. Top with parmesan cheese.