My boyfriend and I love pizza. We seriously eat it once a week...
Which can get expensive if you order out every time. Which we did. We are young we dont have much money so we need to save where we can.
I didnt like how I didnt know what was in it or how it was made so I decided to try to make my own.
For some reason Ive always been scared of home made pizza. Maybe I had a bad experience with it when I was younger and had a really gross one.. I always thought home made pizza would be disgusting. Maybe im the only one? But I thought what the heck and tried it anyways and found a recipe on Pinterest. I couldnt belive how good it was. :D
This is why you should always try new things even if you had a bad experience.
Here is the recipe, I changed it a bit to my liking.
This is what you will need:
-2 cups of all purpose flour or bread flour. *I use all purpose flour
-1 packet of active dry yeast
-1 cup of warm water
-1 teaspoon of garlic powder
-1 teaspoon of salt
-2 teaspoons of sugar
-2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
-corn meal
-packet of mozzarella string cheese
-1 medium and 1 large bowl
-hand towel
-1 oven. haha;)
Step 1~ In your medium bowl add the warm water and the packet of active dry yeast. Stir around until combined. Let sit for about 10 minutes
Step 2~ Grab your large bowl and add flour, sugar, salt, and garlic powder. Use a whisk and mix it all around until nicely combined.
Step 3~ Add oil to the yeast water and then mix the dry into the wet slowly. 1/3 at a time preferably.
Mix until combined. May be a bit dry that is ok.
Step 4~ kneed the dough for a few minutes, it will help bring the dough together more if a bit dry.
Step 5~ Form it into a nice ball. And place it in a lightly oiled bowl. Place towel over the bowl covering the top completely. Let rise for 30 min to 1 hr. (the longer the better)
**Preheat oven to 400f**
Step 6~ Grab a big cookie sheet (no sides) or a pizza pan, whichever you have and sprinkle some cornmeal on it. Not too much but not too little. Just a nice layer.
Step 7~Grab your favorite pizza sauce, a bag of shredded mozzarella cheese, mozzarella string cheese, your favorite toppings, and put aside.
Step 8~ On another cookie sheet, a rolling mat, or just your clean counter sprinkle some flour around and place your dough on top. (If your dough is really sticky and hard to get out of the bowl sprinkle a bit of flour on top of the dough and move around until no longer sticky.)
Step 9~ Push the dough around or roll into a nice round pizza shape, Push the edges of the dough a bit thinner and place the string cheese around the edges about 1/2inch from the sides. (use as many as needed to go around the whole circle.)
Step 10~ Roll the crust over the cheese until covered and you can tuck it under the cheese a bit for extra coverage.
Step 11~ Carefully transfer the dough to the cookie sheet with corn meal. (*Be careful. It can rip easily..*) You can fold it gently and transfer it and unfold it, you can slide it over, or just quickly pick it up and move it over to the other sheet.
Step 12~ Now you make your pizza how you like it:)
This is what I do:
Put a couple spoonfuls of sauce on the middle of the dough and move around until nicely covered. Dont put too much it will make your dough soggy. Just a nice layer where you can kind of see the dough through it.
Sprinkle the cheese evenly on until the sauce is just covered. Add your other toppings.
*I like to drizzle a bit of olive oil on the crust.
Pop it in the oven:)
***Bake For 20-25min***
When its ready and the crust and cheese is just golden its ready to take out:)
BE CAREFUL
~*~*~*I do this extra step to make my crust a bit more tasty:*~*~*~
Put about 2tbs of butter in a small bowl, pop it in the microwave for about 30 seconds or until melted and add 1tsp of garlic powder. Mix until combined.Use a spoon or a pastry brush and run the mixture over the crust.
Now the pizza is ready to slice and serve:)
*I also use a bit of the pizza sauce in a small bowl for dipping sauce for the crust. So yummy:)
*if you want normal pizza crust you can just skip the step with the string cheese and just form a crust.*
Delicious and easy.
And a whole lot cheaper than ordering pizza out.
Give it a try and let me know how it went:)
jclove
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