When I was first married to my sweet husband, I thought pizza was made when you spread the dough into a pan and put some sauce on the dough and add some toppings that clearly everybody likes. Well I was wrong! I learned very quickly that there is an art to making pizza and it is not a quick meal there are steps that need to be taken and ways that the dough needs to be neatly rolled out into a perfect circle and placed on a specific pan so that the crust cooks perfectly to a golden color. Some toppings cannot go on the same pizza together thus it contaminates the flavor. If your making a pepperoni pizza the pepperoni's need to be neatly spaced in perfect symmetrical circles so the slices have even amounts of pepperonis. Over years of experimenting with pizza dough recipes and pizza sauces we have found the perfect pizza recipe for our family, and would like to share it with all of you.
ingredients you will need Flour
Sugar
Yeast
Salt
Water
Oil
Contadina Pizza Sauce
Feta Cheese
Sweet basil chopped
Pizza Dough:
3 cups of flour
2 Tbs sugar
2 1/4 tsp or 1 envelope of yeast
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup of warm water
2 Tbs olive oil
Mix all the ingredients together in a bread mixer.
We use our trusty kitchen aid so that it mixes the ingredients evenly because this is important when making recipes with yeast in them. Once you have all the ingredients mixed evenly place a towel over the dough and let it sit for 45 minutes. Once the dough has risen you can evenly separate it into two balls of dough. place the dough on a lightly floured surface and begin with rolling the dough out from the middle out to the edges. The heavier the rolling pin the easier it is to roll the dough. Once you have the dough rolled out to the size you would like and the edges are rounded, sprinkle some corn meal on the desired pan and place the dough on the pan and then tuck under any edges that hang over the edge of the pan. We prefer to use a pizza stone because we like the bottom of the pizza to be more crispy then a bread consistency. When your pizza dough is ready, spread on the pizza sauce we use Contadina Pizza sauce. you can purchase this in any grocery store, in a can or bottle. When your finished you can place your topping on if you prefer cheese first or cheese last it is to your liking. We use a mix of mozzerella and munster shredded cheese. We have not been able to find a packaged mixture of the two in stores so we just shred it and mix it before placing it on the pizza. Place it in your oven on 425 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and cheese is melted.
The pizza I chose to post was one Natalie and I made when our husbands were not home so we could try toppings we knew our husbands would not care for. I also have yet to perfect the dough to be rolled out neatly to the edges, but I have also learned that looks are not everything because even though this pizza did not look neat and perfect like one you would buy from a pizza place or my husbands perfect pizza, it was going to taste amazing. We made the dough and let it rise and then rolled it out and place it in the oven on 425 degrees for 8 minutes, pulled it out of the oven and spread about a 1/4 cup on the center and sprinkled chopped sweet basil and feta cheese on top and then placed it back into the oven for 5 more minutes and Wa-La! it was Delish!
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