Fall Pizza Baked
Ingredients
- 1 cup Bread flour or OO pizza flour
- 1/4 tsp instant yeast
- 1/4 tsp salt
- water
- Optional: cheese, mushrooms, and toppings of choice.
Instructions
- Make dough ball: Use 00 flour if you want a more chewy crust like you find in regular crusts and frozen pizzas. Use bread flour if you want a softer, more bread-like crust. Proof dough for at least 30 minutes to 2 hours if you want a pizza crust rise or more airy holes inside. Tip: use a silicone Silpat baking sheet so the crust doesn't stick to your baking pan.
- Make the home pizza crust: Add bench flour (semolina flour or any flour) and then shape crust with a roller and/or with your hands. Stretch the dough with your palms prints on dough, avoiding the crust edge. Turn the pizza 90° to go around the circle with your palm.Soften the edges from your finger shapes by massaging the dough edges back and forth with your fingers.
- Bake pizza on 350°F/180°C for 20 minutes and then pull out of the oven. Add sauce, cheese, and toppings and bake for another 15-25 minutes until edges have a hint of warm golden brown. Your toppings or layers of toppings, and ingredient wetness will decide how long the entire pizza will need to bake. Bake raw meat, wet, or lumpy food items separately. If toppings dry out (or to prevent drying out), add a little olive oil. For food items that are already cooked the way you want, add them on your pizza 5 minutes before end of baking time.