Cookbook:Pizza Vanegas
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Pizza Vanegas | |
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Category | Pizza recipes |
Yield | 2 medium pizzas (8 slices each) |
Servings | 4–6 |
Time | 90 minutes |
Difficulty |
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Ingredients
[edit | edit source]Dough
[edit | edit source]- 1 cup warm water
- 3 tbsp active dry yeast
- 1 tbsp white granulated sugar
- 1 lb all purpose flour
- ¼ cup olive oil
Toppings
[edit | edit source]- Pepperoni
- 8 oz mozzarella cheese
- ½ can (15 oz) of Hunt's Family Favorites Pizza sauce
- 1 small onion, finely diced
- 1 small red pepper, finely diced
- 3 ½ oz sliced mushrooms
- Oregano
- Salt
- Black pepper
Procedure
[edit | edit source]- Dissolve yeast and sugar in 1 cup warm water.
- Combine 3 cups of flour, olive oil, one tsp of salt, and the yeast-water mixture. Knead for 15 minutes, adding more flour until dough is no longer very sticky.
- Coat dough with a little oil (about 1 tsp) and place it into a large bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let rest for 45 minutes until the dough is twice its original size.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350°F / 175°C for at least 30 minutes).
- Gently deflate dough in order to eliminate air bubbles.
- Cut dough into 2 pieces (you can freeze dough to bake later for up to a month).
- Roll out dough to form a rounded pizza crust.
- Add pizza sauce (½ can per pizza), and sprinkle onion, red pepper, salt, oregano and black pepper.
- Bake 10 minutes.
- Take out of the oven, add mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, and mushrooms.
- Return to the oven and bake until cheese melts.
- Cut into eight slices, and enjoy!
Notes, tips, and variations
[edit | edit source]- Water must be warm but not boiling in order to activate yeast. Boiling water will kill the yeast.
- You can replace ¼ of water cup with milk. You can also replace the sugar with 1 tbsp honey.
- If you like a stronger cheese flavor, you can add, for example, little chunks of bleu cheese, on top of the other ingredients.
- Try to keep the mushrooms fairly dry. Mushrooms are like sponges, and will lose unwanted water on to your pizza.
- You can try different toppings to basic pizza dough, and even add cheese borders. To do so, you should roll out pizza into a larger size, adding cheese one inch from the border, and little pizza sauce. Roll dough over the cheese and press firmly to close.