Incredibly Easy Pizza Dough (or Bread Dough)

Noel is normally the pizza dough maker.  In fact I have to say the patience he has had experimenting with all types of pizza dough recipes has been great - I am sure that he has cursed the fact that we brought him a pizza oven for his birthday!  LOL!

 

Anyways, we tried this recipe the last time we made pizzas and it was really yum as a pizza base. The recipe doubles as bread day also, which I must say is great also.

 

It is a very light pizza base, once cooked.  A little sticky to work with - but Noel swears by the fact that the wetter the dough the better the pizza base.

 

 

Incredibly Easy Pizza Dough (or Bread Dough)

(recipe sourced from Poh's Kitchen)

 

Makes: 4 pizza bases or 2 loaves of bread

 

600 grams plain white flour (best to use good strong baker's flour - higher in protein)

4 teaspoons dried yeast

2 teaspoons sugar

2 teaspoons salt

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

400ml water

Mix one tablespoon of flour, the sugar and yeast with a couple of tablespoons of tepid water and allow to stand for 20 minutes.

 

In a large bowl mix flour, one tablespoon of olive oil and salt.

 

Add yeast mixture and enough water to make up a firm dough and mix well.

 

Cover bowl with damp tea towel and leave in a warm place for an hour.

 

Remove dough to a floured workbench and knead for five or six minutes.

 

Divide dough into 4 and shape onto pizza trays.  Top with your favourite toppings and bake.

 

To make bread:

 

Divide dough into two, knead each into a loaf shape, put in oiled bread tin, cover with damp tea towel and leave in a warm place for an hour.

 

Before baking, sprinkle surface of each loaf with flour.

 

Bake in moderately hot oven (200°C) for about 45 minutes, or until top is golden brown and bottom is light brown. Tap the bottom, it should sound hollow.

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