Pizza at home - simple and tasty

Who does not like hot pizza that has just been taken out of the oven? It is prepared all over the place. Pizza at home is prepared in the same way as in restaurants or cafes. To date, there are a huge number of species of this wonderful dish.

Pizza originally was a meal of the poor, the peasants. Bake it usually from the remaining dough from baking bread. This is today a pizza dish, which has a huge number of fans not only in Italy, but also far beyond its borders.

It's very easy to cook, because it's a circle of dough, oiled with tomato sauce, and topped with a filling for every taste.

Dough for pizza - this is the usual bread dough without any additives. Home-made pizza allows you to experiment with different fillings, treat yourself to all sorts of desired combinations of products, which can not be offered by a cafe or restaurant.

To prepare the pizza dough, the following ingredients are needed: 700 g of flour, two teaspoons of salt, two tablespoons of vegetable oil and a little for greasing, 20 g of fresh yeast, 450 ml of warm water. Preparation will take about thirty minutes and it will be necessary to wait about an hour for the dough to rise. Dough preparation time is about twenty minutes.

First, sift the flour and salt in a warm (warmed) container. Yeast should be grinded with 150 ml of warm water and put in a warm place for 10 to 15 minutes. After this time, add the spoon into the flour and mix with the remaining amount of water. Knead the dough. It is desirable to knead for ten minutes to get the desired elasticity. Add in the dough two tablespoons of oil. Knead to allow the oil to soak in as evenly as possible throughout the test. Then from the dough should make a ball, put it in a pre-lubricated container (lubricate with oil) and cover with food film. Put the container in a warm place and wait about an hour, so that the dough doubles.

Now you need to make a cake. Pizza at home involves the production of a cake, the size of a baking tray available in the oven or less. As a rule, the size is 23 - 25 centimeters.

First you need to knock out the ready dough with your fist, knead and roll it into the future cake. Put on a baking tray, which must be oiled beforehand. To fill the pizza was left on the cake and did not flow to the baking sheet, you need to properly shape its edge - raise and slightly bend the edge of the dough around the perimeter somewhere in the centimeter. Lubricate the cakes and put the filling.

Pizza is cooked in the oven at a temperature of 220 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Check the readiness on the bottom - raise the spatula and look at the dough from below.

One of the most common types of pizza is Margarita pizza. The recipe for cooking it is not complicated. It differs in a kind of simple stuffing - tomatoes and Mozzarella cheese. For the preparation of one pizza, usually take 200 g of cheese, 200 g of tomatoes, spices to taste. Tomatoes are cut by plates and evenly distributed over the cake pre-greased with butter and tomato sauce. Cheese is rubbed and evenly put on tomatoes. It is baked for about fifteen minutes. Serve best at once hot.

Pizza at home can be cooked with different fillings. For example, to prepare pizza in Sicilian, you must spread the cake with tomato sauce, spread a colorful sweet pepper, cut into strips and previously stewed in oil, add circles of spicy sausages and champignons, cut into plates, mugs of tomatoes and grated cheese.

Pizza "Cheese mix" - on the cake, smeared with tomato sauce, lay out different types of cheese: slices of hard and soft, feta and other varieties. On sale now you can meet a fairly large selection of cheeses, so choose three or four different types for the filling will not be difficult.

Cooked pizza at home will help make friends and family happy, diversify dinner, surprise at a party or party.