Friday nights are Pizza night in our house. Through trial and error we've figured out THE recipe for dough.
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Seriously. It comes in a pack of 18 frozen balls. Take one out the night before you want pizza, throw it in the fridge overnight to thaw. Then put it in a bowl with a little olive oil a few hours before dinner so it can rise and warm a little. Perfecto!
My next endeavor is to make my own sauce. More on that when I have success. ;)
For this pizza I used chicken breast that was seasoned in sweet pepper blend and pan seared. I had a left over bratwurst, so I coined and quarted those (yum! great substitution for sausage) and pepperoni. I used a bag of preshredded "pizza" blend cheese. I put 3/4 of the bag down on the sauce, threw on the toppings, then sprinkled the remaining cheese. I bought a cheap hot sauce that I'm loving, it doesn't have as much vinegar as franks, but any will do. I sprinkled that liberally for the final touch!
We bake on parchment on a pizza stone. It gives the crust a perfect crunch without wicking too much moisture. 455 degrees for about 12 minutes typically does the trick!
about 1/2 hour prep to table time!
1 comment:
I've come up with a decent recipe for thick crust.. if rolled thin. can make pizza pie (aka calzone)
I also make my own pizza sauce.. it's close to perfect I think.
sauce
1 small can tomato paste,
1/2 can of water,
1 tsp salt,
1 tsp sugar,
1 tsp garlic power,
2 tsp basil.
Simmer on lowest heat while preparing the crust & other ingredients.
crust
mix 3 dry ingredients
3 to 3 1/4 cups white flour
1 pouch regular fleischman's yeast
1 tspn salt
combine wet ingredients , (I typically add this all to a 2 cup measuring cup in this order)
1 cup warm water (too hot will kill the yeast, too cold, won't activate it, roughly 100f ..just below bath water temp)
1/4 cup olive oil
1 - 3 tbl spoons honey
Stir quickly and dump into dry ingredients. Mix with fork to form dough. Sprinkle with flour, sprinkle a clean area of counter top too. Pick it up and mush it knead it. stretch it, finally roll into a ball and slam down on the counter. Use a rolling pin, sprinkling with flour when/if it sticks. Roll to pizza pan size for think crust. or roll as thin as you like, then cut into large circle.
You can use the excess to create a top crust and turn your pizza into a calzone
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