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Make Good Pizza at Home
From a fool who grew up in Brooklyn, NY. Reasonably easy way to get good tasting pizza at home...
Steps
Go to a local pizza place and convince them to sell you 1 ball of their pizza dough. As an alternative, you can make your own dough, but it is a pain, and not really worth it.
Get a pizza stone and peel from you local Target, etc. and preheat it in a 475-500 deg. oven for about 30 minutes - you want it hot.
If you want to make smaller pizzas, cut the dough in half.
Throw down a dusting of flour on your rolling surface and the dough itself.
Roll out the dough slowly. make it pretty thin - maybe like 1/8". Shape does not matter really. No need to make a bump for the edge.
For each pizza, brush on a little olive oil, but not too much. Make sure you get the edges.
Add a light tomato/pizza sauce (tips below). Careful to to put more then a thin layer of light (jarred prego will not be good) sauce on. Otherwise it will be like bad frozen pizza/dominos, etc. Ideally it would be a light homemade marinara, but the canned Cento or Progresso pizza sauce will do OK.
Slice the Mozzarella cheese at about 1/8" and place on pizza - not touching each other.
Add a little dried oregano/basil to the top.
slide the pizza peel under it and then slide the whole raw pizza right into the oven on to the hot stone.
Bake until golden and bubbly - 5-10 minutes.
Add some fresh basil when it comes out.
Salt to taste and enjoy.
Tips
In the summer, you can grow roma tomatoes and herbs, and make our your own pizza sauce out of them. An ideal sauce would include roma tomatoes (boiled and peeled), a little fresh oregano, very little garlic, some salt, a little fresh parsley - all thrown in a blender and then simmered. You want it to be a thin and light sauce, not a nasty paste like Ketchup.
Warnings
Don't buy bad sauce or cheese.
Things You'll Need
pizza stone
pizza peel
oven
pizza dough
pizza sauce
fresh mozzarella cheese from an Italian Deli
extra virgin olive oil
Thx to My friend, Tina
Steps
Go to a local pizza place and convince them to sell you 1 ball of their pizza dough. As an alternative, you can make your own dough, but it is a pain, and not really worth it.
Get a pizza stone and peel from you local Target, etc. and preheat it in a 475-500 deg. oven for about 30 minutes - you want it hot.
If you want to make smaller pizzas, cut the dough in half.
Throw down a dusting of flour on your rolling surface and the dough itself.
Roll out the dough slowly. make it pretty thin - maybe like 1/8". Shape does not matter really. No need to make a bump for the edge.
For each pizza, brush on a little olive oil, but not too much. Make sure you get the edges.
Add a light tomato/pizza sauce (tips below). Careful to to put more then a thin layer of light (jarred prego will not be good) sauce on. Otherwise it will be like bad frozen pizza/dominos, etc. Ideally it would be a light homemade marinara, but the canned Cento or Progresso pizza sauce will do OK.
Slice the Mozzarella cheese at about 1/8" and place on pizza - not touching each other.
Add a little dried oregano/basil to the top.
slide the pizza peel under it and then slide the whole raw pizza right into the oven on to the hot stone.
Bake until golden and bubbly - 5-10 minutes.
Add some fresh basil when it comes out.
Salt to taste and enjoy.
Tips
In the summer, you can grow roma tomatoes and herbs, and make our your own pizza sauce out of them. An ideal sauce would include roma tomatoes (boiled and peeled), a little fresh oregano, very little garlic, some salt, a little fresh parsley - all thrown in a blender and then simmered. You want it to be a thin and light sauce, not a nasty paste like Ketchup.
Warnings
Don't buy bad sauce or cheese.
Things You'll Need
pizza stone
pizza peel
oven
pizza dough
pizza sauce
fresh mozzarella cheese from an Italian Deli
extra virgin olive oil
Thx to My friend, Tina
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