How do you make pizza from scratch?

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Any Easy recipes?

I use Delia Smith's recipe for pizza dough, to make the sauce I cook a ton of tomatoes with some garlic, oregano and a pinch of salt until it's reduced down as thickened. I use the cheaper mozzarella (it comes in a block) as the mozzarella balls can make pizza go quite soggy if your oven isn't hot enough.

I use This KitchenAid recipe. Nice & easy.

Google Bake With Jack pizza recipe. Easy and a really lovely dough.

*should be a tin of tomatoes, not a ton!!

I use half a bag of bread flour, a hefty glut of olive oil and 3tsp of yeast with 4-500ml of warm water and teaspoon of salt. You may need a bit more water depending on how thirsty your floor is. Mix it into a dough and then leave it to rise somewhere warm for 3 hours. Punch it down then ball it up and cover loosely with cling film and leave for another hour. I find its best to party bake the bases in bulk and then freeze them. This recipe makes 8-9 bases.

For sauce I use passata, a squeeze Of tomato paste, a squeeze of lazy garlic purée, a teaspoon of sugar, 1/2 tsp of basil and 1/2 tsp of oregano. This also freezes lovely in muffin trays and the pucks can then be bagged.

Home made pizza is a HUGE hit in my house. Hence me keeping frozen bases and sauces. Doesn't need a huge amount of cheese either. It's an excellent way of using up stray bits from the fridge.

At what temperature and oven setting to you bake it? @NannyR @roopeedoopeedooo

And for how long?

This recipe is easy. My 9 year old uses it

www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/bread/quick-pizza-dough

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/pizza-margherita-4-easy-steps I use this one, very easy and great results.

Mine is a fan oven and I do it at about 180c until it's just starting to colour. Then cool then and freeze. When properly cooking. With sauce and toppings, I put them on 200c as I like a crispy base. I also lightly sprinkle flour and ground semolina on the cooking tray/pizza stone to prevent sticking and it adds a lovely texture.

How do you prevent the base from going soggy in the middle? I don’t know if I’m putting too much sauce/ filling on but the centre is always wrong.

I use tomato puree as my base to avoid the sogginess from tinned tomatoes.

That said, I am doing pizza on Wednesday and have a huge amount of ripe tomatoes in the garden so will be chopping, salting and draining these in the fridge until then and will try that to see how it goes.

I've put pizza in the 'more hassle than it's worth' box as it takes ages, is quite labour intensive and is never quite as nice as a good wood fired one.

I use a tortilla wrap as the base, spread tomato puree on and load with veggies.

So easy!

I do it but it took me years to get the dough just right. I use a Good Housekeeping recipe with olive oil and warm water.

What makes a difference is the kneading - I knead the dough for 5-10 minutes, then leave it a good hour to prove (in the oven at 50C works best for me).

Then you need a good hot oven - 200C for fan oven, makes sure it comes to temperature first. I use round baking trays with holes in.

What really transformed the pizza dough from tasting nice but not having quite the right texture was learning the Italian method of throwing it around your hands- hand stretching the dough basically. Takes a bit of practice and is fun, though you might end up flinging it across the room accidentally at first!

Then, however tempting, don't overload it with toppings. Especially not the tomato sauce/passata. I would use say only two dessertspoons for quite a large pizza. Then once the toppings are on I spray the top with olive oil - really helps to crisp it all up.

If you don't want to be arsed with making dough, use a good naan bread or tortilla wraps can provide a good base- wraps quite a healthy version, you can get your pizzas down to 250 calories a go using them.

I usually pre bake the base for 5 mins, then add the toppings, it helps prevent soggy bases, also pre cook things like mushrooms that give out lots of water.

I use a fairly hot oven, 200°+ and cook it until it looks done, 10 mins maybe?