Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Homemade pizza

Every now and then hubby and I like to prepare a homemade pizza, especially when we have visits. (there no such thing as a small pizza for 2!)
Lucky us that we have Thermomix, because now preparing the dough only takes about 1 min :)
The great thing about preparing your own pizza is that you can choose everything: the ingredients, how thin or fluffy you want the dough to be, how cheesy, how green... 

Ingredients (these are the quantities for 1 large pizza)


For the dough:

- 200 gr of water - tepid water (37º)
- 50 gr of olive oil
- 1 tea spoon of salt
- 400 gr of flour
- 5 gr of yeast

For the sauce (I normally prepare tomato sauce)

- 1 large onion
- 2 - 3 cloves of garlic
- olive oil
- basil or coriander
- 4 to 5 tinned peeled tomatoes
- 1 pinch of sugar

To the water add the olive oil and salt. Give a gentle stir. Then add the flour and the yeast and knead the dough for 3-4 minutes. Put it aside until it doubles the size.

In the meantime you can prepare the sauce. Satay the chopped onion and garlic in the olive oil until they get soft. Chop the tomatoes and put it in the pan, along with some of the water that comes inside the can, the herb you like the most and the sugar. Cook for about 8 minutes at medium heat.

When the dough is ready, spread some flour on the counter, grab your rolling pin and start rolling out the dough from the centre out. Then all you have to do is to place the dough on a tray and top it with your favourite ingredients, starting with the tomato sauce. I personally like the classic way: chouriço, bacon, mushrooms and mozzarela, tons of it :)

Doesn´t it look good?








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