How to make pizza at home as in a pizzeria, using genuine ingredients, recipe with description of the procedure, from the preparation of the dough to cooking in the oven.
Pizza as in a pizzeria
Pizza is a popular dish among the most popular as well as in Italy, the place where it was invented, also in the rest of the world.
The case in which this tasty dish is prepared at home is very frequent, with significant savings in money and higher quality of ingredients that make pizza even better than that which can be eaten in a pizzeria.
For a good result, some easy rules must be respected that allow you to obtain the typical flavor of pizza cooked in a wood oven as in most pizzerias.
The quality of the oven, the right doses of the ingredients and the care taken in preparing the dough are the so-called secrets that allow you to achieve an excellent result.
As for the type of oven, any kitchen oven may be fine, better if ventilated to reduce cooking times, but if you want results comparable to those of a wood oven, we recommend buying the now widespread pizza ovens that have the characteristic of having a stone on the bottom where the pizza rests and the ability to reach temperatures around 400 degrees capable of giving a greater fragrance to the pizza thanks to the reduced cooking times.
Ingredients for 4 people
- 500 gr of white flour 00
- 1 sachet of yeast for pizza, master baker or similar
- 300 ml of warm water
- a generous pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
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Homemade pizza dough
Pour the lukewarm water into a bowl and make the yeast melt together with a generous pinch of salt, mixing carefully.
Sprinkle a smooth surface with flour where you can then proceed to knead the dough.
Arrange the flour with a hole in the middle where to pour the two spoons of olive oil and in small doses the mixture previously created of water and yeast, starting to mix everything and continuing until the ball created of the dough takes on a certain elasticity and homogeneity.
Once this is done, leave the freshly made pizza dough to rest for about two hours, taking care to cover everything with a dampened kitchen towel.
After rolling out the dough with a rolling pin and starting the filling with chopped tomato and mozzarella or in pieces, to make the pizza margherita, or adding variants that can go from anchovies and capers, pizza napoli, to ham cooked with artichokes and olives, four seasons pizza , and whoever has more has more.
The pizza is now ready to be baked, requires a cooking time of about twenty minutes, in the classic kitchen oven, or only 4 minutes if you have a pizza oven. Keep in mind that the time required varies according to the thickness of the pizza and the characteristics of the oven.
