Making thin and soft pizza dough 🍕

Kitchen appliances and utensils:kettle, kitchen scale, measuring cup, deep bowl, flat plate, sieve, whisk, tablespoon and teaspoon, cling film or dish towel.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. To start, slightly warm 200-250 ml of water in the teapot, to about 40 ºС. Then pour the water into a deep bowl, place about 25-30 g of fresh yeast in it, then add 1.5-2 tbsp. l sugar and 1 tsp. salt. Mash yeast well in water with a whisk until smooth.
   
2. Using a sieve, gradually sift first 200 g of wheat flour, and knead it with a whisk all the time. Then pour in a bowl about 2-3 tbsp. l vegetable oil, sift another 200 g of flour and knead the dough with a whisk until possible. Instead of vegetable oil, you can use olive. When the dough thickens well, knead it with your hands.
   
3. Sprinkle the working surface with a small amount of sifted flour and transfer the dough onto it. Then knead the dough with your hands until a homogeneous lump for 7-10 minutes. If necessary, add a little flour so that the dough stops sticking to your hands and surface. Place the smooth dough on a flat plate and cover it with cling film or a kitchen towel. Leave it to approach for about 30 minutes at room temperature. After this time, the soft and tender dough is ready to use. Roll it into a thin layer and proceed to the filling.
   

To prepare a softer and more airy dough, you can use fresh milk instead of water. And for lovers of hard and crispy crust on pizza, water as a part of the dough is ideal.

You can use different types of sausages and smoked meats, bacon, ham, mushrooms, grease pizza with mayonnaise, ketchup as fillings for rich pizza. And for those who love seafood, you can use shrimp, mussels, squid. You can mix several types of cheeses at once and sprinkle pizza with herbs. Imagine and invent your own original fillings.

Delicate dough according to this recipe can also be used to make pies and pies with different fillings of your choice - sweet and savory. But in this case, give him more time so that the dough comes up, at least 1.5-2 hours. As a result, you will get aromatic and magnificent pastries.

Video recipe

In the video you can see which ingredients to use and how to knead a good soft pizza dough.

It often happens that the whole taste and appearance of a seemingly delicious pizza spoils a thick dough that looks more like a magnificent cake.
To make home-made pizza no worse than in pizzerias and restaurants, use this simple and quick recipe for soft and tender dough, and, most importantly, thin. And you can choose the filling according to your taste and culinary preferences, as a result you will get delicious rich pizza on a light thin basis.

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