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Basic Pizza Dough

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Course Food staples
Course Food staples
Servings 4 Large Bases

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)
Recommendation
  • This is really good when using the red pepper sauce instead of tomato paste on the base
 
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