Delicious dish, bread with cheese and tomatoes, today is popular all over the world. The secret of delicious pizza is the right knead dough. Currently, there are a great many recipes: on milk, on water, with or without yeast.
Classic recipe
Ingredients for 2 thin pizzas:
- high-grade flour - 1 cup;
- olive oil - 2 tablespoons;
- yeast (dry) - half a teaspoon;
- salt and sugar - 1/2 tsp;
- water - 150 ml.
For the sauce:
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- fresh tomatoes, ketchup or tomato paste - to choose from;
- basil leaf.
How to cook dough
Sift flour. Add to it all the ingredients. Heat the water, add it in parts and knead thoroughly each time. If the dough turns out too steep, you can pour some more liquid.
Knead for about 15 minutes until a uniform plastic mass is obtained. Then cover with a clean napkin and leave to approach in a warm place. In an hour, when the dough rises, it needs to be kneaded, divided into two parts.
Well, if there is a special baking dish with holes all over the surface. It is necessary that the pizza is cooked evenly and quickly. You can use an ordinary baking sheet if it is not very thick. Pizza is not in the oven for long, the main thing - the cheese should be melted. Too thick form is heated for a long time, the dough will be raw, and the cheese will just burn.
Pizza filling
Chop garlic, fry in oil for a few minutes. The oil will be filled with garlic, will absorb its smell, then you can carefully remove the garlic - it will not be needed anymore. Wash the tomatoes with boiling water, remove the peel, grate, combine with oil. It is undesirable to use large pieces of pulp, it is better to remove them.
In winter, if there are no fresh tomatoes, you can use homemade tomato paste preparations or ketchup without additives. Tomato content is combined with tomatoes and garlic butter, wait for the mixture to boil. Add basil, stir, remove from heat.
If the sauce turns sour, add a spoonful of sugar. In sauce, if fish stuffing is used, add fried onion to taste. Also, the sauce can be served with pasta, other side dishes.
Cooking
Roll out the dough, grease with sauce, put the stuffing. Boiled lean meat is better as a filling, preferably chicken, boiled or half-smoked sausage, olives, sweet Bulgarian pepper, you can put salted cucumber. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
Although this dish is of Italian origin, Russian cheese has proven itself very well as an obligatory ingredient: it spreads evenly over the entire surface of the dough and does not burn.
The pizza is ready for baking: it remains to heat the oven to 200 degrees, put a baking sheet in it, wait 20 minutes. Bake the second pizza in the same way.
Calorie classic pizza: 320 calories. Baking time: 25 minutes.
Cooking thin pizza dough like in a pizzeria
On 4 thin basics:
- flour - 400 g;
- water - 130 ml;
- dry yeast - 4 g;
- salt -10 g;
- sugar -5 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 g
The filling can be selected arbitrarily or the same as in the previous recipe. Sift flour into a bowl, add cold water, then all other ingredients. Knead quickly in a combine - 5 minutes. The dough should be soft, elastic and not sticking to the hands.
Knead 4 identical balls, cover with a clean napkin, leave to rest for half an hour. Stretch each lump with hands up to the size of a roaster, about 35 cm. Put on a baking sheet, lift the edges.
Smear with sauce, departing from the edges of 1-1.5 cm. Sprinkle with cheese (for each 125 g), put sausage cut into slices on top. Oven 10 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
Calories - 250 kcal.
Yeast Dough on Milk
- flour - 1 cup;
- milk - 1/4 cup;
- salt - pinch;
- sugar - 1/2 tsp;
- yeast - 1/2 tsp;
- olive oil - 1 tablespoon;
- egg.
Dried yeast put in warm milk, stir, wait until dissolved. Put all the products except flour. Whisk with a whisk. Sift flour, add a little, mix well each time. Knead, cover, leave to rest for 1 hour.
Stir again and bake 2 pizzas. Since milk is present in the dough instead of water, the caloric content of the dish will be higher - 270 kcal. Cooking time varies slightly.
Pizza maker tips
- For a more delicate and airy consistency, the dough is kneaded in one direction. To prevent it from sticking to your hands, your palms should be oiled or watered.
- Yeast dough will be softer and more porous if it lasts longer in a warm place.
- When mixing, you can add tomato paste, at the exit you will get the scarlet color of the base and an unusual taste.
- The dough will turn out crumbly, if you add cottage cheese.
- The quality of the base will be higher if the yeast dough is mixed several times intermittently.
- Be sure to sift flour, then baking will turn out lush.
- The dough on the milk will be gentle if you add the grated boiled catheflin.
- Mayonnaise and other dairy products will add an unusual taste.
- Instead of eggs, baking powder with citric acid, small semolina, cereal flakes, starch is used.
- More nourishing and useful basis is obtained by adding bran, greens, sesame seeds, nuts.
- To reduce the number of calories, take skim milk, more "coarse" flour.
- Spices and spices spice up.
- Olive oil instead of sunflower will give the dish a real Italian flavor.
- Before baking, the form is oiled and sprinkled with breadcrumbs.
- If the pizza burns, a low bowl of water can be placed while cooking down.
- When baking, the base around the edges becomes dry and hard, so before this it must be properly greased with sauce or vegetable oil.
- For sweet dough during baking, more vigilant observation is necessary, as it burns easily.
Pizza is suitable for any table. Among the great variety you can choose a dish to taste. If there is enough free time, it is not difficult to prepare yourself a delicious treat.
