I’ve made pizza almost every day since the last revision (around 16 pizzas). I’ve gotten pretty good at it.
Ingredients
- Store-bought dough (312g)
- Tomato sauce (90g)
- Mozzarella (part skim, home-shredded, 100g)
- 2g extra virgin olive oil
Then, for garnish:
- Oregano
- Fresh basil leaves
- A dash of salt
Steps
- Preheat oven for 1 hour. Ends up somewhere around 450°F.
- Preheat pizza steel for 30 min on top rack underneath broiler, reaches about 650°F.
- In the meantime, rest dough on counter top until it reaches room temperature.
- Grate cheese and measure tomato sauce.
- Stretch the dough.
- Dust peel with flour.
- Remove excess flour from dough.
- Place dough on peel.
- Add tomato sauce.
- Place dough on steel; still on top rack with the broiler still on.
- Bake for 2 minutes.
- Take out to add oregano and cheese.
- Bake for another minute on top rack; again, the broiler is still on.
- Take out steel and let pizza rest on steel for another minute to make the bottom crispy.
- In the meantime, apply small amount of olive oil to the outer crust and sprinkle salt on outer crust.
- Remove from steel and serve.
I’ve made dozens of pizzas by now. I’ve gotten pretty good at it.
Ingredients
- Store-bought dough (312g)
- Tomato sauce (70g, low sodium)
- Mozzarella (whole milk, fresh, 100g)
- 2g extra virgin olive oil (optional)
- Semolina flour
Then, for garnish:
- Oregano
- Fresh basil leaves
- A dash of salt
Steps
- Preheat oven for 1 hour. Ends up somewhere around 450°F.
- Preheat pizza steel for 30 min on top rack underneath broiler, reaches about 650°F.
- In the meantime, rest dough on counter top until it reaches room temperature.
- Grate cheese and measure tomato sauce.
- Dust counter with semolina flour and stretch the dough.
- Add tomato sauce.
- Place dough on peel.
- Place dough on steel; still on top rack with the broiler still on.
- Bake for 2 minutes.
- Take out to add cheese and oregano.
- Bake for another 1.5 minutes on top rack; again, the broiler is still on. Can turn it off halfway through if the pizza is burning on top but the center of the dough needs more time to bake.
- Optional: take out steel and let pizza rest on steel for another minute to make the bottom crispy.
- Optional: in the meantime, apply small amount of olive oil to the outer crust and sprinkle salt on outer crust. (Kind of overrated, not really worth the extra calories.)
- Remove from steel and serve.