Author Notes
Homemade pizza that tastes just like the Italian ones sold in quarters, so called pizza al taglio. —Ana Maria Vasconcellos
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Ingredients
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5.2 cups
flour
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1 teaspoon
brewer's yeast
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1.9
water
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1.5 teaspoons
salt
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0.5 teaspoons
sugar
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5 tablespoons
extra virgin oilve oil
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tomato sauce
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oil
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fresh basil leaves (optional)
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oregano
Directions
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Put the flour on your working surface or into the bread machine bowl.
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Add the water where you have melted the yeast and work the dough until it becomes uniform.
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Add little flour if needed (the humidity of the air may vary this quantity).
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Add the oil you have previously mixed with the salt and the sugar and work until it absorbs all.
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Put oil in the middle of the pan – this recipe is enough for two 35x25cm/13.7×9.8in pans.
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Using your palms, enlarge the dough to cover the whole pan (having put the oil in the middle, as you enlarge the dough, the oil will follow).
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Cover it with plastic wrap and let it rest for about one hour.
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Cover it with plastic wrap and let it rest for about one hour.
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Add the tomato sauce and spread it all over the pizza, except the borders.
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Put it into the oven and let it color on the borders.
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Take it out from the oven, add mozzarella cut in small cubes, basil leaves and oregano.
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Put into the oven again until the mozzarella melts.
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