#WhatsCookingChallenge 🍕 A REAL ITALIAN PIZZA! Now you can do it at home! 👌

Crusty edges, pulling cheese, sweet taste of tomatoes and fresh basil... how not to love it! 

After yesterday's article I received a few unpleasant calls from guests from some Cammora, but I will still give you a recipe for a real, Italian pizza! 😉

Without a wonderful tomato sauce, pizza tastes different. That's why with this recipe you'll also learn how to prepare such a sauce at home! 

In summer, it is best to make it from fresh, sweet tomatoes, but we still have to wait for that. I will therefore show you how to deal with this subject a little differently!

So let's make some homemade pizza! 👌

 

🍅 INGREDIENTS

▪ Pizza dough (for 2 large or 4 small ):

• 300g flour type 00
• 180ml of hot water
• 12g of fresh yeast
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• 1 tablespoon of oil

▪ Tomato sauce:

• 800g pelati tomatoes (2 cans)
• 1  clove of garlic 
• 30g butter
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 2 teaspoons of tomato concentrate
• 1 and 1/2 tablespoons of sugar (if tomatoes are sour, you can add 2 spoons)
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 2 teaspoons of dried oregano
• pepper to taste
  

▪ Extras:

• mozzarella in a ball
• basil
• oregano
• olive oil

The ingredients are only the base, which in this combination is called  pizza Margherita. Of course, you can change ingredients freely, so use your favourites! Do not put on too many additives, because then pizza will not be able to "lift" them. 

🔪 PREPARATION

1. Start with preparing the yeast-starter for the dough.  Add yeast at room temperature and a teaspoon of sugar to a larger cup and grind thoroughly. Pour hot water, add a teaspoon of flour and mix thoroughly. Put the cup in a warm place and let yeast "work" for 7-10 minutes. When the foam appears on top, it means that everything goes as it should.
   


2. Sift flour into a large bowl, add salt and mix. Add the yeast-starter and start kneading the dough. After two minutes, add oil to it. When it's fairly consistent, put it on a tabletop with flour and knead the dough well. It is worth spending a minimum of 10 minutes on it and aerate the dough and aerate the dough as much as possible - it's very important.
   If the dough does not cooperate at the beginning, sprinkle a bit of flour on it and continue kneading, and finally it will work! 


3. When the dough is smooth and it leaves the hand slightly, it's time to let it grow! Put it into a bowl, cover with a cloth and leave for an hour.
   


4. During this time, we will take care of the soul of the pizza - tomato sauce! In a high pot, over medium heat, dissolve butter and add olive oil. Add clove of garlic.
   


5. When butter start to foam, add tomatoes from the can and carelessly crush them with a fork. There is no need for accuracy because they will be blended anyway!
   


6. Add sugar, half of salt and pepper. Boil the sauce and reduce the heat. The sauce should evaporate slowly and only slightly "bubble", so  leave it for a minimum of 30 minutes, remembering only to mix it from time to time.
   


7. When the water evaporates blend the whole sauce (I do it in the same pot, with standing blender).
   


8. Boil again, add concentrate and oregano and simmer whole for 10 minutes.
   


9. Move the spoon on the bottom of the pot and if the sauce slowly fills the trace it has left, it means that it has the right consistency. Finally season it with salt, pepper and sugar. Leave to cooldown and it's ready!
   


10. Still have some time left, so it's a good moment to cut and prepare all the extras that will be put on the pizza.
    


11. When the dough has grown, put it onto the tabeltop with  flour, knead again, divide it into two parts and form shapely balls  with them.
    


12. Sprinkle  the bowl with olive oil, place one part of the dough, lubricate it with  oil, wrap it tightly with foil and put it in the fridge overnight. The next day take it out of the fridge 20 minutes before preparing the pizza and continue as in item 14.
    This so-called growing up in the cold and more will read about it in yesterday's article.
    


13. Put a pizza stone in the oven and set the maximum temperature.
    


14. Stretch the other part of the dough to have a pizza right away! The bottom of the pizza is formed from the inside to the outside. Try to gently push the cake towards the edges so that it is thin, but it does not break.
    


15. On a large, wooden board or flat plate, put baking paper and place the formed pizza bottom on it.
    


16. Spread the sauce, rip mozzarella into small pieces and put them over the entire surface of the pizza, and finally  sprinkle with a pinch of oregano.
    


17. Now we have to be fast and careful! Open the oven and with a firm motion slide the pizza (with the paper) from the board to the stone. If necessary, we can first remove the stone from the oven. At this point, be really careful and use a baking glove because everything is very hot.
    


18. When the pizza is in the oven, close it and wait 4 minutes, open the oven and pull the paper out of the pizza with a quick move. Close the oven and bake another 6-8 minutes. When the cheese starts bubbling on it, and the edges become golden, it means it's ready!
    


19. Remove  the pizza on a wooden board or a tabletop covered with baking paper,  sprinkle with fresh basil leaves and leave to set for 5 minutes. After this time, cut it and enjoy the home-made pizza in Italian style! Gustosi amici! 

Now you know how easy prepare pizza at home! Try it yourself!  👌
I'm a dedicated pizza fanatic, so I hope you'll show me your works! 😉

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@Foodini 🌶