Pizza dough at home: a recipe and tips

Pizza is one of the most popular modern dishes, but not every housewife knows how to make pizza dough at home. To eat this delicious and hearty dish, it is not necessary to go to a pizzeria, it can be done at home.

The preparation of a pizza dough has its own characteristics. We will now tell you how to prepare it. To make the pizza turned crispy and delicate, it is important to know some culinary nuances.

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To make a pizza the way it is cooked in Italy, it is important to bake the dough separately.

So, we are preparing the dough. For him, you need to take the following ingredients: for 250 ml of hot water you need to take 7 g of dry yeast, 1 tbsp.a spoonful of sugar, 1 tbsp.a spoonful of olive oil and as much salt. Also, 350 g of flour is needed.

In a bowl, combine yeast, sugar and 4 tbsp.spoons of water. Leave this mixture in a warm place for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, mix the flour with salt, add olive oil and mix. After 15 minutes have passed, add the mixture with yeast and the rest of the water.

Knead the dough, sprinkle the table with flour and spread it on the table. You can knead the dough for 5 minutes. Then return it to the bowl for half an hour.

To make the cake thin, the dough should be rolled into a 3 mm thick layer.

The dough must be placed to make it suitable. Then already engage in the filling, which can be the most diverse.

There are many recipes for pizza dough: some add eggs and kefir, others use corn flour, others are cooked without yeast. But the highlight in any pizza is dough, baked until half cooked.

Experiment with the combinations of products from which you knead the dough.

In some cases, good results can be obtained by replacing water in the dough with a good beer or a portion of the water with vodka( up to 1/4 of the vodka from the total amount of water - this will add splendor) or with dry wine( up to 1/2).

Small additions of cognac - up to 1-2 st.spoonfuls per 1 kg of dough will add spice to the dough( in addition cognac should be just as neat as in adding to the dishes of hot pepper, otherwise an overly pronounced cognac taste and odor can make the product unpleasant).

You can also add finely chopped fresh herbs and dry ground spices to taste.

After the cake is taken out of the oven, add the filling and send it back to the oven. Bon Appetit.

Useful subtleties in the preparation of pizza

The best flour for making pizza dough is kratchatka. If it is absent, you can add a little manga to the dough( about 1 / 8-1 / 10 of the amount of flour) - this will add to the splendor of the product.

Some culinary experts add durum, pre-brewed on water, like semolina porridge( cooking time 1 minute), then cooled to heat.

Kneading dough on milk makes the product more tasty, more nutritious, but gives the dough a stickiness, deprives it of airiness. Therefore, milk can be added to the dough in quantities from 1/4 to a maximum of 1/2 of the total amount of liquid. Many types of excellent dough are prepared without adding milk.

Good results are obtained by using instead of water the milk whey obtained when preparing cottage cheese or cheeses.

To store and store milk whey it can be frozen in the freezer( shelf life in tightly closed dishes at minus 18 ° C until 1.5-2 months, no more).

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