This pizza dough is so simple to make, you will love the authentic taste of Italy!
Ingredients
Pizza Dough
500g plain flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 x 7 gram packet dried yeast
400ml warm water
Tomato Sauce
1 clove garlic (diced)
Olive oil
1 x 400g tin plum tomatoes
handful of fresh basil
Sea salt
Black pepper
1 ball fresh buffalo mozzarella
Method
Step 1
Add your yeast to the warm water and mix. Leave to sit for a few minutes
Step 2
Add your flour to a large bowl and create a well in the centre. Pour the water and yeast mix into the well and mix everything together to form a nice dough.
Step 3
Knead the dough, stretching and pull, to get air into it. Do this for 10 minutes or until the dough is nice and smooth.
Step 4
Place the kneaded dough into a lightly greased bowl and cover with cling film for 45 minutes. It will double in size.
Step 5
Now onto the sauce, pick the basil leaves from the stalks and set aside. Discard the basil stalks and dice garlic clove finely.
Step 6
Heat a pan on a medium heat with a splash of olive oil, add the garlic and cook slowly until golden. Add the tinned tomatoes, salt and pepper and cook for 20 minutes, breaking up the tomatoes with a wooden spoon. This will make the sauce nice and smooth.
Step 7
Heat your oven to 250 degrees celsius.
Cut the dough into equal portions about the size of a fist and roll out into rough circles.
Step 8
Spoon your sauce onto the rolled out dough, starting from the centre and working your way out to the edges in a spiral motion.
Top the pizza with chances of torn mozzarella and basil leaves. Here you can add any additional extras you like, I have added some salami to mine for an extra touch.
Step 9
Cook the pizzas in your hot oven for about 10 minutes or until golden and crispy.