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Italian Pizza Dough Recipe And How To Cook It

Original Italian pizza dough recipe you can use with any topping. Cooked in the home oven on a pizza stone it is the same as you have at a pizzeria

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Keyword Homemade pizza, Original Italian pizza, traditional Italian pizza

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Total Time 20

Servings people

Calories 642kcal

Author Laura Tobin

Equipment

Ingredients

Pizza Dough

1 cup fresh water
3 cup Caputo flour 00 if you can find Manitoba, Type 55, All purpose, Plain, Type 0
1.5 teaspoon salt
0.5 teaspoon caster sugar to activate the yeast
1 package yeast 2 tsp

Topping

½ cup homemade tomato sauce
1 ½ cup mozzarella block (cut in cubes)
5 fresh basil leaves
salt
3 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Pour the ingredients into the machine and set the program for fresh dough, number 13 on the Kenwood.NB: when using the bread machine the ingredients should be placed in the exact order as listed above, liquids first.
1 cup fresh water, 3 cup Caputo flour 00, 1.5 teaspoon salt, 0.5 teaspoon caster sugar, 1 package yeast
The dough will be ready in 1.5 hours
For the best result, let the dough rest in the fridge overnight, well-floured and wrapped in a plastic bag, otherwise it will crawl all over the fridge.
The next day, let the dough outside the fridge for 1 hour to come back to room temperature
Once the dough is ready, cut it into 3 equal sizes and lay them down on a well-floured baking sheet, and let them rest covered for 30 minutes
When the dough is rolled flat, it needs to rest for at least 10 minutes before it rises
In the meantime, put the pizza stone in the cold oven and set the oven at 220 C - 430 F.
Once the oven reaches the temperature of 220C - 430 F, take the pizza stone out of the oven and lay the dough on top.
Add 2 spoons of tomato sauce and a pinch of salt and spread over the dough with the back of a spoon.
½ cup homemade tomato sauce, salt
Add the mozzarella cheese and some basil
5 fresh basil leaves, 1 ½ cup mozzarella block
Cook it in the oven for exactly 10 minutes and your pizza is ready
Serve it on a cutting board to slice and drizzle with some extra olive oil
You can use any other toppings you like: basil, ham, mushrooms....
3 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil

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Notes

I make the pizza dough in the bread machine, just throw all the ingredients and the bread machine does all the rest. After 1 ½ hour, I have a perfect pizza dough
I prepare the dough the day before and let the dough rest in the fridge for at least 8 hours. The yeast will have enough time to rise and the dough will get a nice consistency, like the one you have in the restaurant.
I cook the pizza on the hot Pizza Stone and the intense heat from the stone cooks the pizza crust evenly also in the center and reproduced the effect of a wooden pizza oven.
In this recipe, I make the dough with the bread machine. If you want to make the dough by hand jump to this recipe: How to make pizza dough without the bread machine
Use the right flour: France is called ‘Type 55’, All-purpose flour in USA, Plain flour in UK, Italian type 0. For best results Manitoba flour if you cannot find it you can buy Caputo flour
Use a good quality tomato sauce for your pizza. If you made your own canned tomato sauce, that would be ideal. Otherwise, I recommend Mutti.
It is not necessary to make a sauce beforehand. Just add salt and herbs over the pizza
Only add 2 tablespoon of sauce per pizza. Too much sauce will make the pizza soggy
Use the rectangular solid mozzarella for pizza and if you like extra cheese add 1 or 2 tablespoon of the grated one.
If you want to use fresh mozzarella, release as much water as possible and don't put in too much.
A proper cheese for Italian pizza should be made of spun paste, also called stretched curd or pulled curd.
The curd paste is pulled and kneaded in hot water. Besides, the mozzarella other cheese are Provola, Provolone, Scamorza, Caciocavallo. All very good cheese for pizza.
The oven and the pizza stone has to be extremely hot
Place the pizza stone in the oven and wait until it is hot to put on the pizza to cook
Once the pizza is cooked and out of the oven, drizzle some good quality extra virgin olive oil.
You can top the pizza with any other ingredient you fancy (EXCEPT PINEAPPLE!!!).

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