Pizza base recipe
Ingredients
- 1 kg flour ( all purpose flour or Maida
- 20 gm sugar
- 20 gm salt
- 30 gm yeast
- 30 gm Gluten ++ bread improver(optional)
- 100 ml cooking oil ( Olive Oil)
- 450 ml Water
Instructions
- First you need to activate the yeast. For that take lukewarm water in a bowl and mix with sugar. Then add the yeast and mix well
- After 10 minutes, mix the flour, salt , oil and other ingredients and knead well to form a dough
- Knead the dough very well until soft and pliable for 5 - 7 minutes
- Apply oil and keep it aside covering in a bowl. Allow the dough to rise almost double in size.
- Making pizza base
- Divided the dough into equal size balls , dusting with flour and keep it aside for 10 minutes.
- Now roll the ball size pizza dough with a roller pin, giving it a round flattened shape. Dust them with flour while rolling.You can even use a cake ring to cut and give a round shaped base.
- You can roll them according to a desired size of your pizza, 6 inch, 9 inch or a big 12 inch round flattened shape pizza base
- For making Mini pizza , you need to roll a small dough into a 2 inch diameter round shape. Mini pizza are small in base size only
- Use a pizza dough docker over the base to ensure that the pizza base evenly baked and without any big bubbles.
- Use a pizza dough docker over the base to ensure that the pizza base evenly baked and without any big bubbles
- Preheat the oven up to around 240 degree celcius and baked the base for 5 - 6 minutes
- Remove the pizza base from the oven and let rest to cool down. Repeat with the remaining dough balls to make more pizza base. Keep them to cool down.
