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Pizza, Pizza!

Posted by Nate | Filed under Recipes

This isn’t little Little Cesar’s, but I made a great homemade pizza last night. Sorry it took some time to get it up here, but I actually had to work today. But, that’s life I guess right?

Anywho, for whatever reason yesterday afternoon I had this craving for pizza, but it wasn’t the normal craving for pizza, it was thin crispy crust, fresh ingredient and piping hot! So, I had to make my own I guess.

I posted a comment on Foodbuzz.com asking anyone to share a good pizza dough recipe. I got some great responses, but the one I like most was from RecipeRoster.com, so Thank you RR!

Pizza Dough (my adaptation)

• 1c. Water, warm
• 1 pack Dry Active Yeast
• 1 tbls. Honey
• 1/2 tsp. Kosher Salt
• 2 tbls. Olive Oil
• 2 3/4 c. Bread Flour

1. Add the water and the yeast together and dissolve. Let sit for about 5 minutes
2. Add the Honey, Olive Oil and salt and mix well.
3. Add about 2 1/2 c. of the flour to the bowl and mix one low speed for about 2 minutes.
4. Stop the mixer and feel the dough. It should be a little sticky but should come off fingers when pulled away.
5. Add more flour if needed. Some places with high humidity you might need to add more than the remaining 1/4 c.
6. Mix on med-high speed for an additional 8-9 minutes. Dough should have nice gloss to it.
7. Place in clean bowl in warmer area.
8. Let double in size.
9. Cut in half and let raise again.
10. Each ball should make a nice size 13” thin crust pizza.

I didn’t want to go out an buy a bunch of stuff for the sauce, so I used what I had in house. Always try and make something out of nothing.

Fresh Tomato Sauce

• 1/2 Red Onion, diced
• 4 Garlic cloves
• 1 tbls. Olive Oil
• 4 Plum Tomatoes, diced
• 1 tbls. Balsamic
• 5 Large Basil leaves
• Salt & Pepper

1. Sauté the Onions and Garlic in Olive Oil until soft but no color.
2. Add Tomatoes and Balsamic and stew over med-low heat for about 20 minutes.
3. Add Basil, S&P.
4. Remove from heat and puree using emulsion blender

Place you favorite topping on the pizza and you have fantastic, fresh homemade Pizza, Pizza!

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Comments (6) | June 16th, 2009