The dough for homemade pizza few ingredients, water, flour, salt, olive oil, to obtain one of the world's most delicious dishes: pizza! There
place today my way of preparing the dough for pizza, fruit of many years of research and ... disaster!
Since doing the pizza following this method I always got excellent results and believe me ... The homemade pizza is really delicious!
Serves 2 pizza pans (about 40 x 30 each):
500 grams flour (soft wheat semolina) type 0, that for most pave the pizza
1 cube of fresh yeast 25 gr
salt (preferably the ocean)
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive
250/300 ml of mineral water
1 / 2 teaspoon sugar
Procedure:
Make sure your yeast is fresh, light color must appear. If it is dark, old or poor is a yeast and your dough will not rise.
Dissolve the yeast in a glass of warm water with sugar.
Put the flour in a large bowl, make a hollow in the center where you will pour the yeast and olive oil.
Put in a jug of mineral water (I do not use the faucet because too much lime and what is not good for the dough). The water should be slightly warm, not at room temperature (especially now that it's winter), the 35 ° - 40 °, in order to help the rising.
Grease your hands with olive oil, help you do the flour sticks to your fingers.
Pour two thirds of the water in the flour and mix with hands thoroughly until the dough does not absorb all the water. Continue to add water slowly, still mixing strongly with the knuckles of the hands (as if you gave fists) for a few minutes.
The dough should be very hydrated, very moist, not hard but a soft dough, this pizza to give the necessary softness. Knead vigorously for a few more minutes, again making sure the mix is \u200b\u200bhydrated (if necessary add other mineral water).
To remove the dough from the bowl, sprinkle a handful of flour and rigiratelo until you can remove it.
Place it to rest (even within the same bowl), covered by a canvaccio and then a cover, in a warm place, away from drafts, until doubled in volume. It may take 2 to 4 hours, it depends. However, let the dough rise longer, the better.
Grease pans with olive oil, divide the dough in two, half for baking.
Roll out the dough with your fingers to give it the shape of the pan. Make sure
spread evenly and fairly slim, given that further inflates the dough in the oven.
Cover the dough with the ingredients you want.
Tips:
- Bake in oven at maximum temperature (by me is 250 °), a pan for a time, the center of the oven.
- I sometimes, if the pizza dough in the evening for the next day, using half of the cube of yeast and let dough rise overnight. In the morning it's ready to bake.
- If the sauce is too rich, first cook the pizza with just tomato and only half cooked add the rest.
- Cooking is very important: slightly less cook pizza, do not worry if you get white, what matters is to test (at the center of the pizza) that the flour is dry. If it is dry, the pizza is ready. Keep in mind that the pizza cooking continues even out of the oven, so if you remove it from the oven too late, cooling becomes a tile.
- A little trick, which sometimes use is to place on the basis of a small oven pan full of water, boiling, it will help your dough to be moist.