How to prepare italian pizza...

After some year of iterations on preparing pizza at home I think I achieve a good way of doing it.

 

Here it is the way I'm doing it...

For 4 person the ingredients are:

• 300g flour type "0"
• 300g flour type "00"
• 1 spoon of Olive oil ("exra vergine" if possible)
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 13 g of yeast
• 1 teaspoon of sugar

In a glass put some warm water (about 23°), the yeast and the sugar. Mix it and leave it in a dark warm place for about 10 minutes.

In the meantime take a bowl bigger enough and put the flour in.

Mix the two kinds of flour (it's ok to use only one kind, if you didn't find either).

Put a glass of warm water (say 40°) on it. This is to facilitate the leaven.

Put the olive oil.

After about 10 minutes from the preparation put the yeast.

Mix all together and add water (not too hot..about 20°) as needed and then add salt.

You should get something like the following picture that weights about 900g.

 

With a knife cut the pizza dough to form a cross on it.

 

Put the bowl covered with a wet rag in a dark place for at least 3 hours. Here it is the video of this phase...

You should get something like this picture.

Take the dough out of the ball, be careful not to break it...

Split it in 4 piece and make 4 balls.

Leave the balls for sometime (from 10 minutes to one hour) under a wet rag. Put the balls over some flour so that it didn't stick.

Take the ball and push gently with your finger to get a circle. Practice this to get a thin dough and be careful not to brake it.

Turn on your oven and put it at the highest temperature. To get the best pizza you should use a wood oven...but I think that most people didn't have one!

In a wooden oven the ideal temperature is 480° but also with the 270° of an electric oven you should get something good!

An important thing to do is to leave the shelf bakery inside the oven so that, when you put the pizza on it, it will be hot.

The problem with this approach is that you should have something to put the pizza when you put up the ingredients and that let's you easily put the pizza in the oven when ready.

One approach is to prepare the pizza over a sheet of oven paper laid on a peel 

 

This is the easiest way...when you get used to it you can try to put the pizza directly on the peel.

Over the pizza you can put almost everything...

The basic pizza (margherita) is composed of tomatoes (pelati), mozzarella (cheese), olive oil (extra vergine) and Oregano

Have fun