Wanna make pizza?

Making pizza is very easy if you know how to make the bread, well I have already put up the recipe for bread. There is only one difference between pizza bread and normal bread and that is you really dont want much rise in your dough. It doesnt matter, but taste is important, so if you let it rise for a long time like 24 hours you get better taste, but 1 -2 hours will do just fine.

After your dough has risen then you punch it down, flatten it , then pinch and pull, my technique is usually pinch then pull towards left or right and keep repeating that, going around the pizza, till you have a good lip, put in the dish that you gonna put in oven, make sure you put semolina seeds under it if you have,

So then comes the sauce, you can either make the sauce yourself or buy it, I use taco sauce and its great, so pour the sauce on your pizza, then toppings is just common sense, first put the onion , then put in any order your topping, Mushroom, olive(get the pitted one), pepper, chop chop chop, put it on.

Don’t put too many different toppings, the main thing is really the bread and the sauce, dont put more than 4 toppings, 3 is optimum for me.

Dont chop too thin, you want to feel the texture, but again if you prefer it other way then go ahead.

ok so toppings are on now, then comes the cheese, mozarella finello is what you will get and shred on top, some people put different cheeses, I tried that and it didnt make any difference, and cheese is expensive, however there are no limits, so put 10 different types of cheese if you want to.

Put it in oven now and bake it in oven like how you bake your bread, I have  a Microwave oven so I put it on conv bake for 22 minutes at 250 degrees celsius.

Try to not attack the pizza once its out, let the cheese to solidify, so you can cut it easily and keep your topping on your bread, I know its hard to wait, just control.

Ideas for toppings:

1.Tomato, Basil and Mozarella

2. Tomato and Garlic

3. Tomato, mozarella and anchovies

well the possibilities are endless really.

Making the sauce yourself will give you further control which is something  I will cover later. Tell me how it goes, tell me about your experiences,

M. Ebrahim Sadeghian F.

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