Pizza is a regular visitor to our house — only it doesn’t usually come
from a delivery person. Making homemade pizza from prepared dough is a quick
and easy dinner any night of the week without a doubt. Even making your own dough only
really adds a few minutes to the prep time! Pile on your favorite toppings and
get ready to chow down
Here are
my quick 3 Steps for making a delicious Pizza at Home
1. Make your own pizza
dough.
Yes, you can buy pretty decent
pizza dough from the bakery counter at your grocery store, but why bother when
you can easily mix up a batch at home for pennies? Use any one of our pizza
dough recipes to get started besides, that can hugely help to cut down your
spending.
While the rise time on most of these is relatively short around
one to two solid hours, you can mix the dough the night or morning before and
let the dough rise slowly all day. Be sure to bring the dough to room
temperature for an hour before shaping it to a shape of your own choice.
· 1. How To Make the Best Basic Pizza
Dough
· 2. Homemade Thin-Crust Pizza
· 3. Quick No-Rise Pizza Dough
· 4. The Best Pizza Dough for Grilling
The favorite method I would recommend for shaping the pizza is to
roll the dough onto a piece of parchment paper. The dough sticks to the
parchment, making it easier to work with and easier to transfer into the oven
without difficulties. The pizza will release from the parchment during cooking
and the parchment can be removed halfway through cooking. The parchment darkens
in the oven, but doesn’t burn or catch a fire.
Read: Home Pizza Recipes
2. Keep
the sauce and toppings simple. Don’t over think it.
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When it comes to red sauce, trust
me when I say a simple, no-cook blender sauce is best. Pesto or rich ricotta
are wonderful substitutes as well.
There are also no rules about the
kinds of toppings you put on your pizza. Choose ones you love. They will cook a
little in the oven, but if it isn’t something you like to eat raw, like sausage
or mushrooms, cook them ahead of time. If you’d like fresh greens or herbs
(like arugula or basil) on your pizza, sprinkle them over the pizza right when
it comes out of the oven. The residual heat from the pizza will wilt the greens
just slightly and bring out their flavor.
It’s best, though, to keep the
toppings to just a handful at most. If you load homemade pizza down with a ton
of toppings, it may take too long for the crust to cook.
· 1. How To Make Homemade Pizza Sauce
· 2. How To Make the Best Pesto: The
Easiest, Simplest Method
Read: How To Make Pancakes at Home From Scratch
3. Bake
it hot.
Don’t be afraid to really crank
the heat up to its highest setting. The high heat will help make a crunchier
and more flavorful crust. Let the oven heat for at least half an hour before
baking your pizzas. If you have a baking stone or steel, place it in the
lower-middle of your oven. (Or you can invert a baking sheet in the oven as a
sort of pseudo pizza stone.)
You can also use flour or cornmeal to keep the pizza from sticking
to a pizza peel or additional inverted baking sheet for building the pizza on.
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