Pizza

TIME: 2 and a half hours

INGREDIENTS:
• 500 gr flour (plus some more)
• 1 little spoon active dry yeast
• 4 spoons olive oil
• 1 little spoon salt
• sugar
• 300 ml warm water
• tomato puree
• mozzarella (better the one without its water inside)
• any other ingredient! (I chose speck, rosemary and a bit of brie)

WHAT YOU NEED:
• bowl
• knife
• spoons
• 2 glasses
• a humid towel
• baking paper
• baking pan

PREPARATION:
Start dividing the warm water into the two glasses: in one put a little spoon of active dry yeast and very little sugar (less than half little spoon) and mix it together. Sugar will activate the yeast! You will see that the surface will become “creamy”.
In the other glass put the rest of the water and the little spoon of salt. Mix it.

Take your bowl, better a big one. Put the flour, add the glass with the yeast and sugar and start mixing the dough. Add then the other glass and 4 spoons olive oil. Now you have to mix it all together! It will take 8-10 minutes to do it properly, the dough have to be flawless on the surface, soft but it doesn’t have to stick on your fingers. Add a little flour if it does! 😉

Now your dough is ready! Leave it in the bowl, put a humid towel on the bowl and leave it in the closed oven for about 2 hours. The dough have to double and it’s very important that the temperature inside the oven won’t change: so don’t open it!

Now it’s time to prepare it! Take the dough off the oven. Switch on the oven, 230°C. Divide the dough in two, take the baking paper and roll the dough until it’s thin and has a nice rounded shape.
Now start adding tomato puree, just a little bit on the whole surface to add flavour and color (leave the external part – about 1 cm – without tomato, so that you can take the slices without getting dirty!). Dice the mozzarella in very little pieces and add it on the pizza. Then enjoy all of the other ingredients you chose!

Put it in the oven for about 10-12 minutes, until it will be crispy…and delicious!

And now… BUON APPETITO!