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Instructions
Bake at 450- 500 for 6-7 mins.
Special Garlic Sauce
1/2 cup margarine spread
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Combine ingredients in a small bowl. Microwave on 1/2 power for 20 seconds. Stir. Makes 1/2 cup.
Cheese Sauce
1/2 cup milk
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1/4 cup Cheez Whiz
2 teaspoon juice from canned jalape?os (nacho slices)
Combine cornstarch with milk in a small bowl and stir until cornstarch has dissolved. Add Cheez Whiz and stir to combine. Microwave on high for 1 minute, then stir until smooth. Add juice from jalape?o slices, and stir. Makes 1/2 cup.
Pizza Sauce
1 10 3/4-ounce can of tomato puree
1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon olive oil
1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon oregano
1/8 teaspoon basil
1/8 teaspoon thyme
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
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Combine ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. Makes 1 cup.
and finally the dough
PIZZA DOUGH INGREDIENTS:
Water - 3/4 cup, at a temperature of 110 deg F to 115 deg F
Yeast - "active dry" type, 1 packet, or: up to 1 tablespoon of bulk active dry yeast
Sugar - white cane type, 1/2 to 1 teaspoon for yeast and 1 to 2 teaspoons for dough
Salt - pinch for yeast and 1/2 to 1 1/2 teaspoons for dough
Flour - 1 3/4 cup unsifted "All Purpose" flour (I like "King Arthur"-brand flour.), plus some to use while kneading dough
Olive Oil - about 1 tablespoon, partly for oiling dough before spreading sauce and partly for drizzling on top of pizza just before baking (and, if not cooking on a pizza stone, for oiling pizza pan)
Optional - You can try adding things to the dry dough ingredients. Nestle''''s Quick powdered chocolate drink mix is pretty good (about 1/2 to 1 teaspoon). And garlic powder (1/2 teaspoon) and Italian Seasoning (1/2 teaspoon) is pretty good. Onion powder would probably also be good. You could also substitute brown sugar, or something else, for all of part of the white cane sugar. Etc...
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THE PROCEDURES:
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0. PREHEAT THE PIZZA STONE (IF USED):
IF you''''re going to use a pizza stone to cook the pizza on, put it on the LOWEST rack in your oven and turn the temperature up as HIGH as it goes. Just turn the knob as far as possible, until it stops, without worrying that there are no temperature marks or numbers for when it''''s set that high. (But, on some ovens, turning the knob TOO far might make it click into the "Cleaning" setting, in which case it probably won''''t get very hot. So don''''t turn it THAT far.) With the temp knob turned all the way up, the oven should reach a temperature of around 600 degrees Fahrenheit (deg F). Later, when you make another pizza, you could experiment with setting the oven slightly lower, perhaps at 550 or 500 deg F, or even 450 deg F, to see how it affects the cooking of the pizza.
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1. START THE YEAST:
a) Get the water to the right temperature: I use a kitchen meat/yeast thermometer, in a 2-cup glass measuring cup. I adjust the kitchen sink''''s faucet until it feels very hot and then fill the measuring cup and check the thermometer. I keep adjusting the water temperature until it''''s measuring about 120 deg F, in the cup, since it will cool, by the time everything is added to it and dissolved, and will end up at about 110 to 115 deg F, I hope.
b) Pour the excess water out of the measuring cup, until there''''s only 3/4 cup of water.
c) Add 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of sugar and optionally a pinch of salt to the water. Stir the water until it''''s completely dissolved (i.e. until you can''''t see any more granules).
d) Add the yeast and stir the water until it''''s dissolved.
e) If you want to (or if it''''s one of your first few times making this), check the temperature of the water/sugar/yeast, again, to make sure that it''''s AT LEAST 105 degrees Fahrenheit (deg F). If it''''s too low, you can microwave it for about 10 seconds to raise the temp by about 5 degrees, with an 1100-watt microwave. [Try shorter microwave times, if you''''re not sure. If it gets TOO hot, it will kill the yeast and you''''ll have to start over, after waiting 5 or 10 minutes before you realize you killed it.]
f) Let the yeast RISE, in a warm place, for at least 10 minutes: I usually cover the top of the measuring cup with a towel or a double-folded paper towel AND set the cup ON a towel (part of the same one) or on a double-folded paper towel. That way, it''''s insulated from the cooler surface it''''s on and its open top is also protected from the cooler air around it.
Sometimes yeast may be slow to rise, while other times it may be fast. I usually let it rise until the top of the "foam" is up to about the 1 1/2 cup mark. But I have heard that perhaps it should be timed and only allowed to rise for 10 minutes and no more. i.e. "Your mileage may vary." If it''''s slow to rise, I use it anyway, after 15 minutes at the most, usually. But it SEEMS to be OK to wait even longer, if necessary. [Of course, if it hasn''''t risen above the 1 cup mark or thereabouts, after 10 or 15 minutes, maybe you should just start over.]
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2. MIX THE DRY INGREDIENTS:
While the yeast is rising, mix the dry ingredients in a medium-size mixing bowl (or whatever you''''ve got). The bowl that I like to use holds about 2 quarts (8 cups). And it has fairly steep sides. I like to knead the dough while it''''s still in the bowl, and that size and shape make it easier.
Measure 1 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour into the bowl. Add about 1 teaspoon of salt and about 1 teaspoon of sugar. Stir it well. Keep the flour handy, because it will be needed later, during kneading, to keep the dough from sticking to your hands (which also should eventually result in adding the proper amount of additional flour to the dough, so it doesn''''t end up being too moist and sticky). [Note that the amounts of salt and sugar (and optional ingredients) can be adjusted, to experiment with how they affect the crust, if you like. But you should probably try the recommended amounts, the FIRST time you make it.]
If there''''s any time left, now is a good time to start cutting up the toppings. I usually dice up about half of a medium to large red or white onion, and slice three or four or more fresh white mushrooms, and cut some thin strips of green bell pepper. If I previously fried some fresh ground pork sausage (with at least some fennel added [Fennel is a spice.]) and froze it, I get a bag of that out of the freezer. I also like to use Canadian Bacon, and often some pepperoni. I like ham, too.
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2A. PREHEAT THE OVEN, NOW (if not using a pizza stone):
If you''''re not cooking the pizza on a pizza stone, now is probably a good time to preheat the oven. I usually cook the pizza at a very high temperature; often at 600 deg F. But it will work at any temperature, as long as it''''s 400 deg F or higher. For your first time, 450 or 500 deg F is probably a reasonable place to start. But, if you''''re in a hurry, just crank it up as far as the knob will go and it''''ll cook in five or six minutes, especially if your pan is of the "dark" variety (rather than silver).
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3. MIX IN THE YEAST:
Pour the entire contents of the measuring cup (the one with the yeast in it) into the bowl. Stir the liquid into the dry ingredients, with a spoon.
It is sometimes a bit difficult to mix them, after a few seconds. And it may seem like there''''s no WAY the dry ingredients will ever get moist enough. At SOME point, you will have to change from using the spoon to using your hands. But I usually mix with the spoon until it becomes difficult (which is very shortly) and then change my grip, so that my thumb is pushing down into the spoon and my other fingers are wrapped around the base of its handle. Then I can start "kneading" the mixture by pushing the head of the spoon into it, with my thumb doing most of the work. Just keep pressing the wetter parts into the drier parts, pushing from different angles, and flipping it over if necessary, etc. After the mixture starts to get combined better, and more doughy, it will eventually become more like a lump of dough. At that point, I switch to using my hands.
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4. KNEAD THE DOUGH:
Knead the dough FOR AT LEAST TEN MINUTES:
Sprinkle some flour onto the dough, in the bowl. Use enough flour so that the top of the dough is pretty-well covered with a fairly-thin layer of flour. Then, just make a fist and push it into the dough. Push it in again. And again. And again. Keep occasionally flipping the dough over and folding it in half or quarters and then pushing your fist into it over and over, sprinkling more FLOUR onto it whenever it sticks to your hand. [I like to use my hand to sort of "roll" the dough at the same time, by rotating my knuckles from the side of the bowl toward the center of the bowl as they contact the dough. It pulls some of the dough up from the bottom, each time, so I don''''t have to pick it up and fold it over as often.]
After about ten minutes of fairly-strenuous kneading, the dough should no longer be sticking to your skin, and should also be kneaded enough. (And you might be a little worn out, or even sweating.)
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5. SHAPE THE DOUGH:
Take the dough out of the bowl and flatten the dough out, somewhat, by pressing on it with your hand(s). I usually push on it until it''''s at least six inches across and shaped more or less into a circle, with about the same thickness everywhere. If I''''m making a rectangular pizza, I try to make it into an oval, instead, i.e. longer in one direction than the other.
There are lots of different way to make the dough into the shape of a pizza crust. But I''''ll just tell you how I usually do it. I used to use just my hands, pressing the dough in the inner sections to get it to go toward the outer areas. You could use a rolling pin, too. I have used a rolling pin. It works bery well. but I don''''t use one, any more, because I like to be able to leave a thicker area all the way around the edge of the crust. And a rolling pin flattens it too much. Now I use a "miniature" rolling pin method: I use a spice jar as a small rolling pin. I start in the center of the dough and roll toward the outside, but NOT quite all the way to the edge. I do that from the center toward different parts of the edge, to keep the thickness about even and to make it get into the right shape. Occasionally I might have to roll it ALONG the edge, to re-distribute a thicker part to a thinner part, or to make the shape right.
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6A. PREPARE THE PAN''''S SURFACE (if not using pizza stone):
PAN: If you''''re going to use a pizza pan instead of a stone, then put about a teaspoon of olive oil on the pan and smear it around until the pan is completely coated with it. This recipe makes enough dough for one 14-inch round pan. But I''''ve heard people say that they''''ve used a rolling pin to make it into TWO 14-inch pizzas, although I''''ve never tried that. A dark-colored pan will cook a pizza faster, or will get the crust darker on the bottom, than a silver one. I use the thin-metal types of pans. I don''''t like to use the "air-insulated" pans, or the pans with lots of tiny holes, etc., because I like a crisp, strong crust. But "your mileage may vary".
6B. PREPARE THE PEEL''''S SURFACE (if using pizza stone):
STONE: If you''''re using a stone, and it''''s been preheating for 30 or 40 minutes by the time the pizza is ready to cook, you''''ll need to assemble the pizza dough, sauce, and toppings on something ELSE, and then slide it onto the stone when it''''s ready to be cooked. The "standard" item to use is called a pizza peel. It''''s a big wooden paddle, usually about the size of your stone (or at least as big as the pizza you''''re going to make), usually having a handle. If you don''''t HAVE a pizza peel, you can use something else. Almost anything that''''s flat should work. I''''ve used cookie sheets (even the *backs* of the ones with 1/2-inch sides on them, in a pinch). And even stiff cardboard might work.
WHATEVER you use as a peel, it needs to be sprinkled with cornmeal, or possibly flour, so the pizza can be easily slid off of it and onto the stone. Cornmeal works MUCH better than flour, by the way, at least in my experience. When you''''re pizza is all loaded up and ready to cook, and you''''re searing your face with a 600-degree blast from the oven, and the pizza WON''''T BUDGE when you try to slide it onto the stone in the oven, it''''s "a bad thing". So, if you DO have to use flour instead of cornmeal, make sure you occasionally gently "jerk" the peel (or whatever you''''re using), to check to see if the pizza will still move. If NOT, lift up the edge and throw/slide some more flour under it, until it WILL move. (Note that getting oil or liquids on the peel will usually make it harder to get the pizza to slide.)
HINT: If you plan on making a very THICK pizza, then at this point you should probably partially-cook the crust. Otherwise, too much sauce or toppings or cheese might make the pizza crust end up too soggy, or not crisp enough.
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7. ADD THE SAUCE:
a) OIL the dough: Place the dough onto the oiled pan or the cornmealed peel and then pour about a teaspoon of olive oil onto the dough and smear it around until the whole thing is covered with a thin layer of olive oil, all the way to the very edge. (If you''''re doing it on a peel, try not to get any oil onto the surface that the pizza is sitting on, so it''''ll be able to slide off onto the stone, more easily, later.)
b) Spread the PIZZA SAUCE: Pour some pizza sauce onto the dough and spread it evenly. BUT, DON''''T spread it all the way to the edge of the dough. If you leave enough un-sauced space around the edge, maybe up to one-and-a-half inches, it USUALLY will "puff up" into a nice, big, chewy rounded crust edge (which makes me think that this dough would also be quite excellent for making breadsticks). I usually use about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of sauce. If you like a very crisp pizza, don''''t use as much sauce (You''''ll have to experiment.).
Canned pizza sauce from a grocery store will usually do, well enough. Or, in a pinch, you can make some by mixing some sugar and spices with a small can of tomato paste. I like to dabble in making homemade pizza sauce. It''''s usually MUCH better than anything from the store. But that will have to be a recipe for another webpage. I guess even spaghetti sauce would work, if you have nothing else.
To spread the sauce, I often just use the back of a large-ish spoon. But a spatula or hamburger flipper that has a perfectly-flat edge works very well, too (or almost anything with a straight edge, I suppose). AN IMPORTANT HINT: If your sauce doesn''''t have a spice called Fennel in it, or not enough of it, you should probably add some to your pizza. If you grind the seeds up, first, you shouldn''''t use nearly as much of it, then, or it will be too strong. Something like 1/2-teaspoon of the seeds, spread evenly over the sauce on the pizza, would probably good to try, the first time.
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Serving Size: 1 Serving (456g) | ||
Recipe Makes: 1 Serving | ||
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Calories: 1031 | ||
Calories from Fat: 2 (0%) | ||
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Amt Per Serving | % DV | |
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Total Fat 0.3g | 0 % | |
Saturated Fat 0g | 0 % | |
Monounsaturated Fat 0.1g | ||
Polyunsanturated Fat 0g | ||
Cholesterol 0mg | 0 % | |
Sodium 747.7mg | 26 % | |
Potassium 89.5mg | 2 % | |
Total Carbohydrate 265g | 78 % | |
Dietary Fiber 1.1g | 5 % | |
Sugars, other 263.8g | ||
Protein 1.2g | 2 % | |
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Calories per serving: 1031
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