Today is Saturday, and I decided to make a family pizza to eat in the evening.
Pizza is a food that I occasionally make around the year.
Since there are so many refrigerated and frozen pizza varieties and options of reasonable quality and price that are offered at supermarkets, I often buy one or two pizzas to bake at home on weekends.
However, I think that no frozen or refrigerated pizzas can match the taste of a homemade pizza.
So to cut the long story short, I used the following ingredients:
Pizza base
3 cups of white flour
11/2 cups of water
1 tablespoon of dry yeast
1 tablespoon of salt
Pizza toppings
Ketchup sauce
400 grams of light semi-hard cheese
300 grams of cocktail sausages
4 green peppers
1 can of mushrooms
1 tablespoon of butter
Cooking process
Pizza base
I mixed the white flour with the dry yeast and the salt into a bowl.
I heated the water at 50 degrees Celsius for half an hour.
After the half hour had passed, I put the water into the bowl with the dry ingredients and mixed them well together.
I closed the bowl tightly, and let the dough rest for 10 minutes.
Then I used a solid tablespoon (one that does not bend) to “knead” the dough for about 2 minutes.
I closed the bowl again, and let the dough rise for 1 hour.
When the 1 hour had passed, I “knead” the dough with the tablespoon again, in order to make it more elastic, like a chewing gum.
I turned the oven on to preheat at 200 degrees Celsius.
I took a quite big baking tray and greased it with the butter.
I spread some flour on the counter top, and emptied the dough from the bowl on it.
Then I sprinkled some more flour at the top of the dough.
Using a rolling pin, I made the dough very thin and flat to fit in the baking tray.
I placed the dough into the baking tray and stretched it to perfectly fit all corners of the tray.
Adding the toppings
I opened the can of mushrooms and emptied the contents into a colander to strain the mushrooms.
I cut the peppers into round slices and put them in a small bowl.
I then cut the cocktail sausages into small cylindrical pieces.
Then I grated the cheese into a bowl.
I spread the ketchup sauce to slightly cover all the surface of the base.
Then I sprinkled the grated cheese over it.
After that, I added the pieces of sausages, the slices of peppers, and the mushrooms.
I baked the pizza in the preheated oven for 30 minutes.
These ingredients gave 16 quite big slices of pizza, so nobody was left feeling hungry after eating their own share of this nice pizza!
Good appetite!
