Whats the best way to make a Pizza?

Question

i love pizza and want to know how to make one!! im not a fan of frozen pizza's, dont like the taste... love pizza hut's taste! How can i make a pizza that tastes that good?? I have a bread maker so could make the dough using that! also, whats the best puree?

Answer 1

I make a spaghetti sauce (with or with ground beef) and use that as sauce. I have attached a website that is a great recipe source (this link will take you to pizza crusts). Keep in mind you can add seasoning to the crust, and I brush mine with olive oil and sprinkle some Parmesan.

Answer 2

Queen of da trill is surely joking. Pizza costs about one tenth of its selling price!

Make a bread dough with strong flour, a little salt, a little yeast and some cold water for a soft dough. Leave to rise till double in size. Pummel it down with your hands - flour on hands if needed to stop sticking - and form into very thin flat disc. Throw it up in the air if you are desperate for entertainment/humiliation but it's not necessary.

Tomato sauce and whatever toppings...

Then into the hottest oven you can find. The two important bits are "as thin as possible" and the "hottest oven". The best I ever had was in France where they cooked one at a time in a wood oven and each was done in less than a minute.

Enjoy!

Answer 3

Make a normal bread flour recipe mixture, you can use 50/50 white and brown too. Add Oregano, Marjoram, salt and ground black pepper to the mix, then Olive oil. Add the required amount of warm water and yeast.

This mix is intentionally 'wet', transfer to a clear plastic bag, oiled on the inside and allow to rise (do the chopping and cutting of topping whilst it rises).

Prepare a large clean surface for the needing and flouring up process. When you judge the dough to be risen then trip it from the bag onto a well floured top and dust off liberally with more flour. Need the mix until it has a dough like texture (you'll keep to keep adding plenty of flour via a sieve whilst working it)

When its big enough for what you want transfer to a greased and oiled baking tray and allow the second rising. When raised again add topping and drizzle olive oil around the crust edges to them soft whilst baking.

Yummy!

Answer 4

Forget the bread maker. But especially, forget pizza hut! That's frozen pizza hun, you might as well get it from the store and bake it yourself. Make your own with this recipe and you will never regret it!

Get self-raising flour, depending on how many pizzas you make, say a pound per pizza, add two pinches of salt, one teaspoon extra virgin olive oil, then add warmwater and get mixing the dough. You have to add as much water as needed, the dough has to be very tough to work. If too soft, add water, bit by bit.

Spread the dough flat and round, or whatever shape and thickness you prefer.
Pour on top some tomato sauce, made this way: pour a tin of plum or dicet tomatoes in a food blender and make what would be known as passata, just runny tomato mix.
Level, leaving it half an inch from the edge of the dough round.

Add diced mozzarella cheese, one or two mozzarellas per pizza. Only mozzarella will do, if you want any flavour remotely resembling pizza. Pour a very thin round of extra virgin olive oil and a pinch of salt, spread evenly. This the base recipe (Margherita is the Italian name for this, the simplest pizza)

After that, which is the basis for all flavours (Apart from Marinara, which is just tomato and garlic sliced thin, no cheese) you can add anything you prefer.

Original Italian recipes to add to the base above are:

Pugliese: onions, olives
Napoli: anchovy pieces, capers, oregano
Prosciutto e funghi: Ham slices, fresh mushrooms sliced thin, chopped fresh parsley, (Parmesan cheese topping and mmmmmmmmm)
Quattro Stagioni: four sections of different ingredients, which are franfurter slices, peppers, onions, olives, anchovies, capers, oregano, aubergines (egg plant), mushrooms. Mix as you please.
Gorgonzola: stilton/gorgonzola cheese and olives
Pesto/Pesto red: Pesto only pesto sauce, thick cream and mozzarella, no tomato, Pesto red with tomato.
Salsiccia: sausage pieces, onions
Siciliana: spicy salami, olives, oregano, anchovies?
Vegetariana: olives, peppers slices, onions, aubergines, courgettes, capers

the others I can't remember! I only lived there 20 years...


Pineapple, corn, chicken and spicy beef and that ty[pe thing are not used in Italy, some use seafood and tuna but it doesn't really go well with cheese (yuck!), but hey, as you like it! Be creative!

Finally, bake in a very, very hot oven, the hottest you can get, under a grill, for a short time. How long for, you have to determine yourself, it depends how hot your oven gets. Look out for the cheese to melt evenly, the suface to get golden, and the edge.

Enjoy!

Answer 5

French Bread Pizza

Ingredients

red pepper finely chopped
green pepper finely chopped
yellow pepper finely chopped
onion finely chopped
mushrooms thiny sliced
sun-dried tomato paste
pizza sauce
vegetable oil
french baton



Slice a French Baton in half and slice each half through long ways.

Preheat an oven to 200 degrees.

Fry the onion on some oil until soft. Then make up the pizza. Firstly spread it with sun-dried tomato paste. Then add a layer of pizza sauce (I often use pasta sauce instead).

Sprinkle some onion on top. Then spread over some mushrooms. Sprinkle over some peppers.

Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

Answer 6

Here's a quick and really tasty pizza for you to make
Oven to 170c, gas mark 5, 340f.
8ozs (225grms) Plain Flour
1/8 teaspoon Salt.
1.5ozs (40grms) Margarine.
1oz (30grms) grated Cheddar Cheese (or freshly grated Parmesan or Mozzarella)
1/2 teaspoon of dried Italian Herbs.
Approximately 3 tablespoons of milk or water (you might need more!....remember you can always add but not take away when cooking so add the milk very slowly till desired consistency is reached!)
Method.

Place all dry ingredients into a bowl and add the hard margarine and lightly bring mix into a breadcrumb texture. Add the water/milk and bring to medium/soft dough.
Lightly dust board with flour and lightly knock back dough.
Roll out dough and place on pizza disc.
Prick the dough all over with pastry docker or fork and bake in oven for 10 to 12 minutes.
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Topping.

Mix sundried tomato paste with some good quality tomato ketchup, spread over lightly cooked base, then sprinkle on some fresh pesto, followed by a sprinkling of mozzerella cheese, then by your desired toppings and finally coat with more mozzarella before baking the pizza!
Good Luck with your Cooking!

Answer 7

Don't know about Pizza Hut's recipe, but here's mine...


"Homemade Pizza Supreme" - 2 pizzas

1 (1/4 oz.) pkg. active dry yeast
2 cups warm water (110-115*)
3 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 1/2 tsp. salt
4 to 6 cups all-purpose flour
SAUCE:
2 (8 oz.) cans tomato sauce
1 1/2 tsp. grated onion
1 tsp. dried oregano
1/4 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
TOPPINGS:
4 cups (16 oz.) shredded Mozzarella cheese
4 oz. Canadian bacon; diced
1 (3 1/2 oz.) pkg. sliced pepperoni
1 medium sweet red pepper; sliced
1 medium green pepper; sliced
1 (2 1/4 oz.) can sliced olives; drained
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup minced fresh basil

In large mixing bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water; add oil, salt and 2 cups of the flour. Beat on medium speed 3 minutes. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6 to 8 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place for 10 minutes.
Combine sauce ingredients; set aside. Divide dough in half. On floured surface, roll each portion into a 13" circle. Transfer to two greased 12" pizza pans; build up edges slightly. Bake at 375* - 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Spread with sauce; sprinkle with toppings. Bake 15-20 minutes or until cheese is melted.

Answer 8

The best thing about making your own pizza is that you can top it with anything you like.

I use chopped tinned tomato, or fresh in season, and sometimes add tomato paste for extra tomato flavour. Then there's a choice of onion, garlic, herbs, mushrooms, various cheeses, meats like ham, peperoni or salami, strips, sliced or chopped, or even sardines, add olives, peppers, anchovy or pineapple. Drizzle with olive oil and top with cheese.

If you like the Pizza Hut's taste take a note of the ingredients and include those.
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Answer 9

The easiest is to buy a ready mad base from the supermarket and then add your own toppings. Start off with some chopped tomotoes and then a little cheese (a mix of grated mozzarella and cheddar gives good flavour) then whatever meat and vegetables you like, followed by more cheese and some black pepper. Bake in a hot oven until the cheese is golden and bubbling. Delicious!

Answer 10

You've got the idea for the dough just about right, but remember to add extra olive oil.

Tomato base can be made from tomato Passata, which is thickened pressed tomato juice, plus herbs and garlic.

Best way of sorting this is to make a load of passata, then to freeze what you don't need in suitable portion sizes.

Toppings are simple too - we like ham with mushroom and pineapple.