Learn to make Pizza's??

ybbi

Is there anywhere you can either get a class on it, or a good resource website that shows you step by step how to make one. Really want to learn to make the american style pizza's.
Thanks in advance for any replies.

Ponster

All there is to making pizzas is learning to make the base and then a sauce of choice. It's harder to imagine something easier to learn how to make properly.


There are some great vidoe's available here.

Prenderb

+1 Pizza is dead easy to make. Your base recipe will be something like: 400g strong white flour, teaspoon salt, some butter/olive oil (couple tablespoons) a sachet of dried yeast and about 200ml of warmish (about 20-25degrees C) water. Mix thoroughly (you can use a stand mixer if you're lazy like me), cover with cling film and allow to rise (somewhere warm - hot press?) for about an hour.

Knock it back and you can probably divide it in 2 for 2 pizzas. The unused dough will keep quite well in a freezer.

Topping - I just use tomato puree, straight from the tube and spread thinly over the base once I've rolled it out. Get the mozzarella in a bag in any of the supermarkets - one ball is plenty for a single pizza, chop it roughly into thinnish slices. Then afer that, you can do exactly what you want. I like pepperoni slices on top, but it depends on your pizzaphilosophy - either lots and lots of toppings, or keep it simple!

oven wise - about 180 or so in a fan oven, then keep an eye on it - 8-10 minutes will see it done rightly.

Edit: American pizza, is deep pan base, right? Don't know whether my thoughts would be useful to you in that case...

Khannie

I got a savage recipe for pizza dough which I'll dig out for you later. It calls for ice cold water, chilled (strong) flour and other things, then leaving it overnight. I've only tried it once but was amazed at the results. Animal!

arse..biscuits

Look up "jamie oliver pizza" on youtube and you'll get a good video. (I cant get the link now as I'm in work and youtube is banned)

gleep

Try this, quick easy and uncommonly good................jaysus!


Ingredients



400 gr plain flour

200 ml warm water (very important its warm)

Pinch of salt

1 Sachet of dried yeast

4 soup spoons of sunflower oil

Tomato Sauce for pizza



Mix everything together into a ball and wrap in cling film for a minimum of half an hour before use in a dark place. This mixture makes approx 4 thin pizza bases. Roll out and sprinkle your toppings over the tomato sauce.



Cook in a very hot oven for about 10-15 mins.



My favourite toppings are grated mozzerella cheese, sliced tomatoes, chicken, olives and chilli peppers. Aldi have a great jar of pre prepared jalapeno peppers.


Enjoy!:D

ybbi

Thanks everyone!

worded

Once the base is made try this

Mix olive oil / garlic powder / oregano / basil.
Use a brush and paint it on. Then add your sauce.

Its really tasty that way.

Dummy

Saturday night is pizza night in this house and it is so simple that my 6 year old is responsible for making the base and I do the rest.

We use Dough Program in the breadmaker. He puts the water, flour, salt, sugar, olive oil, and yeast into the machine and we walk away and let the machine do the rest.

The pepperoni comes from Lidl - a 99c packet does 2 pizzas. Pineapple - lidl for 32c. Chicken tandori from Lidl 1.26. Mozzerla cheese again from Lidl - can't remember price.

The pizza topping is one tin of tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, onion,

We get 2 pizzas from all of this.

The kids love making it - it's mainly their job. I make a baguettes (dough made in machine) and bake it as garlic & herb bread.

Another thing make with the pizza dough is Pizza Fritta - deep fried pizza dough served hot with honey on top - yum yum.

The Black Oil

I've never tried to make pizza before so I'd be interested in giving it a go. I'm a little worried I'll mess up the base, though.

Prenderb

Don't be worried it's easy as pie. Although, if you find pie hard to make.....


No, scratch all that. It's easy. Easy peezy. If I can do it, you can do it, it's that easy. A bit of patience, some mozzarella and other toppings and a hot oven and you'll never look back.

Prenderb

Khannie wrote: »

I got a savage recipe for pizza dough which I'll dig out for you later. It calls for ice cold water, chilled (strong) flour and other things, then leaving it overnight. I've only tried it once but was amazed at the results. Animal!

Savage recipe not yet posted...

The Black Oil

Gave this a go this evening and turned out pretty well!



Base:

175g plain flour
1.25ml salt
5ml dried yeast
120-150ml likewarm water
15ml tablespoon of olive oil.

I double this for tonight's mix.

Sift the flour and salt into a large mixing bowl and stir in the years. Make a well in the centre and pour in the water and oil. Mix to a soft dough. Knead the dough on a floured board for around 10 mins until smooth and elastic. Place in a greased bowl, cover with cling film and leave to prove for about 1 hour. Turn out onto floured surface and knead a little more. I then divided this into 2 pieces and put one onto a baking sheet on top of a tray.

Toppings and Sauce:

For the sauce I used some sort of Polish tomato extract/puree from Supervalu, some oregano, basil, cayenne chilli powder and a little bit of oil. Mixed those together. Meat was just ham and sliced chorizo and then some cheddar and mozzarella cheese.

Into the oven for around 16 mins at 180C. Job done.

worded

I heard a good idea was to bake it on a quarry tile.

Like so
http://www.salvo.co.uk/images/userimgs/22886/25172_1.jpg

Ive a few for sale on adverts ...

Ah just jokin.

Lord Panic

worded wrote: »

I heard a good idea was to bake it on a quarry tile.

Really good idea. I got a pizza stone for this very purpose, makes a huge difference!

looperman1000

Was talking to a friend last night about pizza making, i had told her about Tipo 00 flour and she said she had tried strong flour and tipo 00. She found Tipo 00 was harder to manage, roll out etc.
Does anyone else have an opinion on this?
She said they both tasted great

antoniosicily

tipo 00 = cream odlums = egg pasta
tipo 0 = strong white odlums = pizza

The Black Oil

Lord Panic wrote: »

Really good idea. I got a pizza stone for this very purpose, makes a huge difference!

How so? To the freshness, texture..?

antoniosicily

The Black Oil wrote: »

How so? To the freshness, texture..?

mainly because the pizza base will reach an higher temperature which will cook it differently (crustier)

Flamed Diving

I use self-raising flour, some tepid water and a little olive oil for the base. Nothing more. Works out just fine.

The Black Oil

Someone told me you can get frozen bases in Tesco. I think I'd still prefer to make my own.

niall_belfast

Pizza really is easy to make.

In case anyone is interested, there's a short "how-to" on my blog - hopefully you'll find it useful: http://www.chilliandchocolate.com/pizza-perfection/

In terms of the base in prefer using a non-stick metal pizza dish for cooking the pizza - the holes in the dish allow for a well-done base that is crisp. The pizza stones work on the same principle - except these are heated first to start cooking to bottom of your pizza base straight away.

And your own bases will taste far lighter and better than anything you can buy from the supermarket freezer!

The Black Oil

Thanks for the link. 250-300 celsius seems very high!

Minder

I made a batch of pizza dough on Sunday - had pizzas for lunch two days running. The first batch were too thin and the oven temperature too high. The second attempt produced a much better result. Cooked on a pizza stone at 230c for 12 minutes. The dough included 200g of semolina flour which adds to the crunch.

niall_belfast

Ha! Thanks Black Oil - good save! Bit of a typo there - "centigrade", obviously - just to emulate the heat of a wood-fired oven..

CJhaughey

The Black Oil wrote: »

Thanks for the link. 250-300 celsius seems very high!

Not really a good wood fired Pizza oven can get to over 400C Pizzas cook in just a minute or two.
But you must be able to put the pizza on the base of the stove or effective heat transfer doesn't occur, you get undercooked bases and over cooked toppings otherwise.

BTW Centigrade and Celsius are the same, Fahrenheit is a different scale.

gonker

There is a jamie oliver pizza stone in boots for 10.50 euro at the moment in includes the stone and stand a slicer and a parmesan grater a jar of olives and a jar of mixed herbs.

CombatCow

Heres my attempt, the little one took 10mins at 180'C and the bigger one took 15mins.

Bacon and mushroom with homemade sauce.





It tasted really good but next time im gonna make the base thinner :pac:

CC

The Black Oil

Good work there, CC.

Flamed Diving

Yeah, just really stetch the base out , as you roll, but do it in even directions, so that it stays round. However, have all the ingredients ready before you add them on, cause the sauce will soak into to it, if you leave it too long. So lash it all on at once, and flake it into the oven.

CJhaughey

Make sure your sauce is cold or chilled before you apply it. This helps if your base is very thin.
Wet ingredients like pineapple, give them a squeeze so they are drier and not dripping wet, avoid fresh tomato as it will make a pizza soggy very quickly.
I like to brush the rim of the pizza with oil and sprinkle cornmeal on it to give some texture and colour.

LK1

This is my favourite Italian Pizza recipe I got the base from one and toppings from another.

The Dough (this makes enough for 2 large pizza bases-use one and cover other in cling film in fridge for another day. Second batch will rise in fridge. Just dust it with flour when you are using it again)

1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp salt
Just under a pint of warm water
700g of strong white flour for dough and dusting.
2 sachet's of dried yeast

Add the salt to your flour and make a well on a flat surface.
Add the sugar and yeast to your warm (not Hot) water and stir for a minute. Add the mix into the well a few drips at a time scooping a little flour with a fork in as well.
This makes a sloppy mix, lift it out of the well of flour and leave to the edge repeating.
So you should end up with a sloppy warm soft readybrek mixture, add more flour working with your hands till it starts to come together. Dust with flour and wrap in cling film and leave to one side. If you have mates coming over leave them in the fridge after 15 mins and just take them out to roll when they come over.

The Tomato Sauce (as above makes enough for 2 pizzas)

A can of plum tomatoes
Handful of fresh basil finely chopped
1-2 garlic cloves
Salt & Pepper to taste

Blend all of the ingredients together in processer

The Toppings

With toppings less is better

80g buffalo mozzarella 80g buffalo mozzarella
1 large red pepper 1 large red pepper
50g goats cheese or Breast of chicken with Cajun
10 slices chorizo spices or other
10 slices pepperoni Sliced red onion
Sliced chili pepper jalapeno peppers

Roast the red pepper in the oven on a tray at high heat 240 until it begins to blacken
Tear the mozzarella ball by hand into ¾ inch chunks
Cut the goats cheese into ½ inch pieces

Now the real secret is tin foil. when you are ready to cook turn the oven up to full (250c or as high as it will go and let it heat up well), roll out your pizza and take some olive oil and sprinkle it onto foil 1/3 bigger than your pizza. Rub it into the foil with your hand and then carefully transfer the pizza base to it. The Pizza

Flatten out the dough to make thin pizza base disc. (13 in).
With ladle pour on tomato sauce to centre and use ladle to spread it out. It is important not to use too much sauce or it will make base soggy, just enough so that you can see base underneath.

Add toppings beginning with the red pepper, then the cheeses, then the rest.
Use chopping board that I use under the foil to take it to the oven because otherwise things can get sloppy. Slip it into the lowest rack of the oven and let it go. Watch for the edges browning and curling. It will take 10 mins + approx. You can throw on some garnish(basil, coriander) when it’s done if you want.

gonker

Flamed diving...the pizza stone I got was in drogheda in Boots.

The Black Oil

I might look into getting one of those stones. I made some pizza again tonight and the base was quite soft, though not underdone so it was still tasty. I'm guessing the heat didn't quite go all the way through so maybe 180C is a bit on the low side.

hedgeh0g

gonker wrote: »

Flamed diving...the pizza stone I got was in drogheda in Boots.

Boots the chemist?

the beer revolu

The Black Oil wrote: »

I might look into getting one of those stones. I made some pizza again tonight and the base was quite soft, though not underdone so it was still tasty. I'm guessing the heat didn't quite go all the way through so maybe 180C is a bit on the low side.

180 sure is a bit low.
As high as your oven will go is almost hot enough for pizza.

gonker

Yes boots the chemist. Bought myself another one yesterday!!!

hedgeh0g

gonker wrote: »

Yes boots the chemist. Bought myself another one yesterday!!!

I dont see it anywhere on www.boots.com

MissFlitworth

hedgeh0g wrote: »

I dont see it anywhere on www.boots.com

If it's the same one I got it was part of their Christmas gift range so it wouldn't be online anymore. If there's a big Boots anywhere near you all the Christmas sets are half price at the moment, I got the pizza stone and it was €10, bargain! Have had the best pizza ever off it. If you're in Dublin Boots in Jervis had heaps of them still there this weekend

gonker

MissFlitworth wrote: »

If it's the same one I got it was part of their Christmas gift range so it wouldn't be online anymore. If there's a big Boots anywhere near you all the Christmas sets are half price at the moment, I got the pizza stone and it was €10, bargain! Have had the best pizza ever off it. If you're in Dublin Boots in Jervis had heaps of them still there this weekend

Thats it. Really good!

seanybiker

Made myself my first ever home made pizza tonight. I must say it was fecking delicious. It was a lot easier than i thought it was going to be. I didnt have the dough thrown around the room or anything cool like that bt it worked out grand. Another one tomorrow :P :P

Prenderb

Great stuff, it's a satisfying moment! I just ordered a pizza stone from amazon, £7.99 if anyone's interested. Have to say I can't wait to see if it works as well as people say.

seanybiker

I must get one of them stones tomorrow actually. Heard great things about them

seanybiker

anyone know how to make the little meat balls that dominos have on their pizzas?

Freeshack

niall_belfast wrote: »

In case anyone is interested, there's a short "how-to" on my blog - hopefully you'll find it useful: http://www.chilliandchocolate.com/pizza-perfection/

Hey just wanted to say thanks, made pizza last night following your recipe and it was absolutely fantastic.
I've only started cooking in the last week and this was so simple.