Mama Mia... my pizza!

Hello!

Well, for those of ye who did not read my last post, I made some tomato sauce yesterday I mixed with pasta and I left some to be used for making pizza!
And tonight was pizza night!
I love pizza night because you can pretty much put whatever you want on them, cooking them makes the house smell lovely and given the way it's raining outside, it's great to have the oven on.
Making pizza sounds long and complicated but really, once you have the tomato sauce prepared, making the dough is quite easy, it needs enough time to rise (about 30 min to 1 hour) and then it's just a matter of putting toppings on top. Nothing could be simpler!

So here is my recipe for pizza dough and a few topping ideas! (For the tomato sauce, see the previous post)

For the pizza dough:
- 300 gr of strong white flour
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoon of dried yeast
- between 175ml and 200ml of warm water
- 1 tbsp of olive oil

For the toppings:
- Grated mozzarella, or even better, fresh mozzarella
- Parma ham
- Rocket
- Fresh goats' cheese
- Honey and black pepper

1. In a bowl, mix the flour, salt and dried yeast. Then, add some of the warm water while mixing with your fingers. Add enough water so that the mix turns into a ball of dough that does not stick to your fingers too much. Once you have reached the right consistency, add the olive oil.

2. Cover with tea towel and leave to rest for 30 minutes to an hour, until it has doubled size. If you need a little help with the rising, leave the dough somewhere warm like a hot press.

3. Preheat the oven at 220°C. Once your dough has doubled size, divide it into three balls. Use one ball per pizza. Put one of the balls onto a sheet of baking paper, flour your rolling pin and spread the dough thinly. One ball should be enough for a 12" pizza.

4. Put about three table spoons of tomato sauce on the pizza, spread thinly. Put the grated mozzarella or fresh mozzarella on top. Bake in the oven for 7-10 minutes depending on how you like it.

5. Once out of the oven, put some slices of parma ham, some fresh goats' cheese, some rocket leaves and a few teaspoons of honey.

And hey presto, the nicest pizza ever is ready!!!