Homemade Pepperoni Pizza
Medium crust pizza dough filled with toppings and topped with mozzarella
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Servings: people
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 500 g All- purpose flour
- 325 ml Warm water tap water
- 7 g Yeast Instant yeast
- 1 tsp Salt Table salt
- Drizzle of Olive oil Can substitute to vegetable or canola oil
Assembling pizza
- 200 g Pizza sauce Use my recipe or use tinned tomato sauce
- 100 g Mozzarella cheese
- 100 g Pepperoni or Topping of your choice (see above for recommendation)
Instructions
- Mix Yeast, and water and leave aside for 10 minutes until it froths
- Mix together flour, salt, olive oil and add in the yeast mix
- Knead the dough for 5-8 mins until smooth
- Shape it to a log shape and portion it into 4 equal pieces
- Using your palm in a circular motion, make smooth balls by pressing it downwards and rotating it in one place
- Dust a tray with flour and place the dough balls on the tray leaving sufficient gaps in between. Cover with a damp cloth, let it rise in a warm area until doubled in size
- Once doubled in size dust flour to the work surface and the dough and pull the dough with your hands to stretch & shape the dough ( can flatten the dough using a rolling pin as well)
- Place the flattened dough on a pizza tray or on a flat oven tray lined with baking paper
- Apply 1/4 cup of pizza sauce on the pizza dough base then top it up with any toppings of your choice, finally, add mozzarella cheese to cover the pizza
- Preheat oven to 250C / 482F ( conventional )
- Once preheated, cook the pizza for 10-12 mins
- Cut into wedges, serve immediately
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