Pizza

This is my first recipe that I learned ,to make my husband and my elder son happy. Usually I make pizza with cheddar cheese, I thought any cheese will do. But last time , I tried with parmesan ,its a little bit costly but it smells and tastes really good.

After making this, I am sure you won't go for ready made pizza.

The recipe goes below..

This yields 2 pizza.

Ingredients

    Pizza dough

• 3 1/2 cups All purpose flour
• 1 cup warm water
• 2 tsp honey
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 Tbsp oil

    Pizza toppings

• 1/4 cup tomato sauce
• grated parmesan cheese
• diced bacon
• diced bell peppers (capsicum), it will be colourful if you choose different colour ones
• cherry tomatoes or diced tomatoes

Method

1. Put warm water into a bowl. Add salt and honey and mix with a spoon. Add yeast, mix and let it sit for about 10 minutes.
2. Gradually add flour and oil and start mixing.
3. When the mixture gets too heavy to mix, start kneading the dough with your hands.
4. Knead the dough until you have a smooth ball. If the dough cracks it is too dry. Add water bit by bit until if forms a nice coherent ball. If your dough feels more like batter, it is too wet and you need to add flour bit by bit. If you need to add water or flour, do it by small amounts.
5. Coat the dough with oil, place it in a large bowl and cover it with kitchen wrap or a grocery bag. Let the dough rise for about an hour at room temperature, then push it down again so it deflates. Let it sit for about another hour. If you want to use it the next day, put it in a refrigerator.
6. Put the dough on a lightly floured surface, put a bit of flour on top and make it into the shape of a pie by stretching it out from the center outwards. Use a rolling pin until the dough is about 1/4" thick. Punch some holes in the dough with a fork to let the air escape while the pizza is in the oven.
7. Spread tomato sauce over the dough half inch away from the edges.
8. Sprinkle with grated cheese and put your toppings and finally sprinkle with a little grated cheese.
9. Bake the pizza in the preheated oven at 200C for about 20-25 mnts until the crust is light brown.

Cheers!