Post your best pizza recipe.

Here's mine

Step 1: Preparing the sauce

Ingredients:

2 Tablespoons olive oil
1 can crushed tomatoes (35 oz / 992 g) with basil in it
1 Tablespoon crushed garlic

Reduce down on slow heat. Stir frequently.

It's ready when the reduced sauce is thick enough to hold back when scooped:


Use half the sauce for each of two pizzas. The sauce may be frozen if not used immediately.


Step 2: Preparing the dough

I use my bread making where I throw in the following:

3/4 cup water
3 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 cups bread flour
1 1/2 teaspoon yeast - bread machine yeast, i.e. the one with vitamin C in it (ascorbic acid)

Select Dough Cycle; press Start.

Here's how it looks like when ready:



Step 3: Shape it up

Use non-stick spray on the pizza tray. Then sprinkle a a little flour just to cover the non-stick spray.

Then shape the dough. Yep. That is not easy to do. The best way is to stretch it really slowly, and uniformly, by pinching the dough until it forms a pie shape. Then press it down on the tray. Let it stand for 15 minutes.



Step 4: Cover it up

First spread the sauce. Then sprinkle cheese. Yep, the cheese doesn't end up on top. Then the toppings. Beware of some vegetable to produce a lot of water! For instance, do not use too many mushrooms; and they should be sliced real thin.

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Step 5: Bake it

Preheat the over at 500F. Yes, that high temperature.. A convection over works great for this, but it doesn't have to be. Bake it until golden.

When you make your own, you'll see what it looks like when baked, not before

iso pic on the final result after baking

btw, looks yummy yummy

This post was edited by nekrotic on Feb 14 2012 02:05pm

pretty basic. the sauce could be enhanced a bit more but I know some people find the simplest sauce best for pizza

I would also look into using a pizza stone

1-WTB pizza stone
2-Your dough needs some sugar in it
3-You need more practice on working down the dough, looks like someone just sat on it...

Yep! I was inspired to keep it simple.




The pizza stone is the next step my brother! You're spot on

It was awesome

We also learned to avoid too many toppings, so they cook properly.


Sugar..... hmmmmm I do use sugar in the homemade dinner rolls. We'll try.

Ya.. regarding the dough. It looks like a diaper, but the taste was awesome! There is just so much my machine can do.

that pizza base looks dodge

The simpler the better. The key to a great pizza is to use quality ingredients that enhance the flavors, such as the tomato sauce. A worst choice would be to use store-bought sauces. A better choice would be to crush home garden-grown fresh tomatoes in step 1. num num

1. take naan
2. drizzle olive oil on it
3. slice tomato
4. slice fresh mozzarella
5. place slices of tomato and mozzarella on naan
6. chop up fresh basil and place on naan as well
7. put in oven at 300 for 5-10 minutes
8. enjoy

Simple, yet effective. Nice.