How to cook pizza in the oven at home. Conditions, ingredients, dough

Pizza is a versatile dish created for a delicious friendly quick snack. If you have small gatherings planned at your home, it is very simple to dial the number of the nearest pizzeria and order delivery. However, not all owners know that in the oven in the home kitchen you can cook no less fast, and most importantly, more delicious pizza. In addition, in such conditions you will have much more opportunities to pleasantly surprise guests. There are many recipes for this, and a thematic video will help you figure them out.

Increasingly popular in recent years is homemade in a frying pan. The dish will come to the rescue if there is no oven at hand or you do not know how to use it. This pizza is also delicious, but still only baked in the oven can be considered real. In this case, you can not be afraid that the dough is not completely baked or the base will burn on one side.

To operate on a cutting table, you will need:

• kitchen knife;
• a couple of large cutting boards - for ingredients and dough;
• rolling pin;
• large grater;
• measuring cup and spoons;
• large frying pan or baking sheet;
• a couple of grips.

Advice. If you get the taste and cook homemade pizza regularly, you can purchase special utensils. For example, a wheel knife for the convenience of slicing a dish piping hot or round wooden board plates for serving.

Quick pizza in the oven: how to cook the base

It is no secret that the base of the dough is a key part and a distinctive feature of pizza in the cuisines of different countries. One of the universal and most popular yeast base recipes is prepared as follows:

Yeast pizza dough can be stored in the freezer

1. Add dry yeast (2 tsp) to a bowl of sweetened water or warm milk (230 ml).
2. Stir thoroughly.
3. Cover and put in a warm place. It is advisable to minimize drafts and do not open a window nearby.
4. Wait 20-30 minutes for the dough to double in size.
5. Add to diluted yeast: one beaten egg; flour (0.5 kg); salt (1.5 tsp); vegetable oil (2 tablespoons) and melted butter (2 tablespoons).
6. Mix thoroughly again and return to a warm place. Wait for the dough to rise.

Depending on the degree of rolling, such a base can be either thin classic or thick. It will take about 1.5 hours to prepare the dough. Another option for preparing the base is to shift the responsibilities to a bread machine or slow cooker with the appropriate function. After that, leave the dough in the same place so that it fits. Pizza cooking time will be reduced by a third.

Advice. If you want to speed up the process, you can make the dough in advance and put it in the freezer. In the usual compartment of the refrigerator, it will lie for two days, always in a closed bag. In the freezer, the pizza base will last up to 3 months. And not only will it not lose its qualities, but even improve them. The dough will need to be defrosted at room temperature.

How to make a thin pizza base

You can also prepare a yeast-free base. It will turn out thin and dense, unlike lush yeast. The dough cooks much faster, because it does not need to rise:

1. Measure out 2 tbsp. flour and mix with salt (1 tsp).
2. Pour the mixture in a heap onto a cutting board. Make a dent in its top.
3. In another container, make a mixture of the following ingredients: 2 eggs; half a glass of boiled water or warm milk; 1 tsp vegetable oil. All this should be thoroughly mixed until smooth.
4. Pour the mixture into the recess in the flour hill.
5. Mix the dough well.
6. Cover with a damp cloth and leave for 10-15 minutes. at room temperature.

Advice. Use olive oil to add an Italian flavor to the pizza base.

A popular step-by-step pizza recipe in the oven

Pizza filling is a wide field for your imagination. With a footnote to common sense, a dish can be made from what is at hand: sausages, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers. Any kind of thermally processed meat, pickles, pineapples, seafood, etc. will do. Of course, do not forget to finish the composition with a layer.

Mandatory components of pizza - sauce and cheese

For example, authentic Italian pizza is prepared like this:

1. Prepare the yeast base. For one serving, a dough of 1 tbsp is enough. flour and an appropriate proportion of other ingredients.
2. Roll out the sheet and place it on a greased, floured or lined baking sheet.
3. Spread a thin layer of tomato sauce or ketchup (70 g) on ​​the dough.
4. Lay out the components cut into thin flat slices to your taste: ham (70 g); champignons (30 g); tomatoes (50 g); olives and black olives (20 g each).
5. Grate a layer of cheese (110 g) so that it covers the filling layer.
6. Place in oven preheated to 220°C. Ready time - 15 min.

Cooks share tricks on how to properly build the pizza baking process:

• when forming the filling, try to place the sausage and meat part below, mushrooms - in the middle, vegetables - on top;
• the optimal thickness of the rolled dough is 1-1.5 cm;
• the diameter of the "pancake" should be 2 cm larger than the width of the pan or baking sheet, then the excess will need to be folded over and form a side of the pizza;
• the oven before laying the pizza must be heated to at least 180 ° C, otherwise the dough will spread to the edges.

Cooking at home: it's not as difficult as it seems. But you can control the taste and naturalness of your pizza yourself.

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