Basic Pizza Dough
Ingredients
- 4 cups Cake Flour
- 10 grams Instant Yeast
- 4 tsp Sugar
- 2 tsp Salt
- 380 Ml Warm Water
- 50 Ml olive oil
- 1 tsp Garlic Powder
- 1 Tsp Mixed Herbs
Instructions
- Add all the Dry ingredients into the mixer and make a small well in the middle.
- Add the Oil and start the mixer.
- Add ALL the water while continuing to mix the ingredients
- After a few minutes the dough should of formed a nice ball on the Dough Hook and should not be sticking to the sides of the bowl. If the dough is still sticking to the sides of the bowl add 1 tbsp of Flower at a time.
- At this time the dough should have a nice sheen to it and should be very elastic,. Cover the Dough with Cling wrap in a bowl and let it rise till twice the size.
- Knock the dough down and separate into 4 equal sized balls.
- Using a rolling pin, take one of the balls of dough and role out your pizza base on a nicely floured counter top.
- Add your topping of choice and then proceed to cook the pizza. This can be completed in either a Pizza Oven or a normal oven. the temperature range to use in your normal oven is 200 C
Notes
Tools
- Kitchen Mixer with Dough Hook- (Kenwood Chef or Similar)
- This is really good when using the red pepper sauce instead of tomato paste on the base
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