Author Notes: Homemade pizza that tastes just like the Italian ones sold in quarters, so called pizza al taglio. —Ana Maria Vasconcellos
Serves: 8
Ingredients
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5.2
cups flour
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1
teaspoon brewer’s yeast
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1.9
water
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1.5
teaspoons salt
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0.5
teaspoons sugar
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5
tablespoons extra virgin oilve oil
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tomato sauce
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oil
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fresh basil leaves (optional)
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oregano
Directions
- Put the flour on your working surface or into the bread machine bowl.
- Add the water where you have melted the yeast and work the dough until it becomes uniform.
- Add little flour if needed (the humidity of the air may vary this quantity).
- Add the oil you have previously mixed with the salt and the sugar and work until it absorbs all.
- Put oil in the middle of the pan – this recipe is enough for two 35x25cm/13.7×9.8in pans.
- Using your palms, enlarge the dough to cover the whole pan (having put the oil in the middle, as you enlarge the dough, the oil will follow).
- Cover it with plastic wrap and let it rest for about one hour.
- Cover it with plastic wrap and let it rest for about one hour.
- Add the tomato sauce and spread it all over the pizza, except the borders.
- Put it into the oven and let it color on the borders.
- Take it out from the oven, add mozzarella cut in small cubes, basil leaves and oregano.
- Put into the oven again until the mozzarella melts.