Pizza
Enough dough for 2 (12"/30 cm) pizzas
Bread Machine Pizza Dough
Ingredients
320g water
20g olive oil
553g AP flour
12g sugar
10g salt
4g yeast
180g ripe sourdough starter (optional)
Instructions
1. Add all ingredients to the bread machine.
2. Set to dough cycle
3. Divide the dough into 2 balls (usually they range from 400-420g each)
Simple Tomato Sauce
Ingredients
1 can (28oz) of peeled tomatoes (I use Cento San Marzano usually)
Instructions
Heat the tomatoes in a 5-quart saucepan, on medium, until reduced to a thick sauce
Use an immersion blender to break up larger pieces.
Let sauce cool
Pour the sauce into a 16oz Mason jar
Refrigerate for up to a week
Pizza Assembly
Ingredients
1 batch of Bread Machine Pizza Dough
½ c pizza sauce
10-12oz shredded mozzarella
Instructions
1. Preheat your oven as hot as it will go (I do 470°F)
2. Stretch each dough on a 12-inch pizza pan. If the dough springs back, let it rest for a few minutes before stretching again
3. Spread sauce on dough, leaving a 1-inch rim all around
4. Add cheese
5. Bake each pizza for 11 minutes or until the crust looks golden and the cheese is bubbly. Each oven is different so start checking at about 7 minutes.
Variations
Supreme
Top the pizza with sliced mushrooms, sliced black olives, red onion, sliced bell pepper, sausage crumbles, and pepperoni.
Hawaiian BBQ Chicken
Use BBQ sauce instead of tomato sauce. Top the pizza with pineapple tidbits, sliced chicken breast, Canadian ham, red onion, and bell pepper.
Seeded Crust
Brush egg wash on the edge of the crust. Sprinkle poppy, sesame seeds, or a combination of both.
Garlic Crust
Mix ¼ cup of olive oil, 3 cloves of grated garlic, and a large pinch of flaky salt in a small bowl. Brush on the crust after baking.
Stuffed Crust
Stretch dough beyond the pan. Divide String Cheese sticks (I eyeball how much string cheese is needed) into 3 parts. Arrange the string cheese around the periphery of the pizza, folding the dough over the string cheese and pinching the dough to itself. Secure the seam of the fold securely to avoid cheese leaking.
