Would you like to make your own pizza dough? Do try this basic pizza dough recipe. You can add any pizza sauce of your choice.
Ingredients:
4 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose white flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup warm water
2 packages dry yeast
1 1/2 cup warm water
1/4 cup olive oil
2 teaspoon light soya
Method:
Measure 1/2 cup warm water into a 2 cup container and stir in the brown sugar. Disslove the 2 packages of dried yeast in the water and set it aside for 5 minutes. It will become frothy. ( for about 2 cups worth!)
Sift 4 cups of flour into a large mixing bowl. Make a depression in the middle of the flour and pour in 3/4 of the olive oil and 1 cup warm water. Add in the yeast too.
Dust your kneading surface with flour, then mix the ingredients in the bowl with your hands. Place dough ball on the floured surface and from 8 to 10 minutes. Add flour to the kneading surface if the dough is too sticky or wet. Eventually the dough will become elastic.
Rub the insides of the clean bowl with the remaining olive oil and place the dough in it, coating the dough with olive oil by turning it in the bowl. Cover with the clean cloth and let rise in warm, draft- free place until double in size, 1 1/2 to 2 hours. An oven with the light on or a lit burner pilot will provide suitable heat for rising dough. When dough has risen, divide into two halves then roll each out on floured surface. A round shape may be cut out with table knife using 12 inches bowl or plate template.
