Pizza belongs to dishes that are not worse in the home kitchen than in a restaurant, and thanks to almost unlimited variations of its recipes, it will never get bored with its new, author's variant, it is easy to surprise home and friends .
How to quickly cook pizza at home - the basic principles of cooking
Ideally, they bake it in a wood-burning stove, but at home it is somehow taken in the oven warmed up in the range from 180 to 250 degrees.
The working surface for the formation of the pizza base from a piece of dough should be sprinkled with flour or anointed with vegetable oil. Always sprinkle with flour a baking tray for baking pizza so that the cake does not stick and work out pleasantly crispy.
In addition to the open pizza, there is a closed - calzone, which is the same pizza, just folded in half, with the filling inside.
Recipe 1. How to quickly make pizza at home: pizza Margherita
Ingredients
• 270 ml of water;
• 250 g of mozzarella;
• 12 g yeast;
• 175 g of semolina flour;
• 325 g of finely ground wheat flour;
• 200 g canned tomatoes in their own juice;
• basil leaves;
• 40 g of olive oil;
• 10 g each of salt and sugar;
• ground black pepper.
Cooking
Semolina flour is very similar to semolina, but you cannot replace flour with cereal, if there is no semolina, take an equal measure of wholemeal flour.
• sift two types of flour into one bowl, add salt and pour a hill with a hole at the top of the flour;
• mix sugar with yeast and dilute in warm water, set aside for a quarter of an hour;
• add oil to the water;
• gradually pour the liquid into the hole on the flour hill, kneading the dough;
• continue to knead the dough for about 12 minutes;
• cover the dough with foil and wait a quarter of an hour before you can roll it into a pizza crust; • turn tomatoes into mashed potatoes in a blender bowl or in a sieve, use juice from them, and pepper;
• cut mozzarella into slices;
• form a pizza base with your hands and send for 3-4 minutes to an oven heated to 250 degrees;
• Remove the cake and do not hesitate to grease with sauce, spread out the cheese and greens, return to the oven and bake, waiting for the cheese to look well melted.
Recipe 2. How to quickly make pizza at home: Hawaiian pizza
Ingredients
• 540 g of flour;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil for dough and a little more for frying;
• 210 ml of milk and 90 ml of water;
• 6 cloves of garlic;
• two large fresh tomatoes;
• 120 g tomato paste;
• 150 g canned pineapples in syrup;
• 220 g of parmesan or any other hard cheese;
• 12 g salt for dough;
• ground white and black pepper, salt - for the filling;
• 320 g of ham;
• 12 g yeast.
Cooking
• combine the heated milk and water, add salt and yeast, mix;
• pour in flour slowly, for greater tenderness of the dough, this can be done directly from the sieve;
• somewhere after adding half the flour, add the vegetable oil, stir and continue to add the flour;
• cover the bowl with cling film and leave to warm up for 30-45 minutes;
• grab the tomato sauce;
• heat the butter, fry the garlic and remove the cloves;
• Put tomatoes in the butter, peeled from the skin (this is easier to do after scalding them with boiling water) and cut into smaller pieces and, stirring, extinguish them, mash well;
• add tomato paste, pepper and salt to vegetables, mix everything;
• form the approached dough in the cake and for 4 minutes, send the cake in the oven preheated to 180 degrees;
• remove the crust that has begun to blush and brush with tomato sauce;
• Spread ham, sliced straws and pineapples, sliced;
• sprinkle with grated cheese;
• Bake in the oven until ready for half an hour.
Recipe 3. How to quickly make pizza at home: pizza Four seasons
Ingredients
• 420 g of flour;
• 130 g of mozzarella;
• 100 g parmesan;
• 35 g olive oil for the test;
• quarter of bell pepper;
• fresh large tomato;
• 10 g yeast;
• 150 g fresh shiitake or champignons;
• 100 g smoked sausage;
• two eggs;
• 180 g tomato sauce;
• 60 g of olives pitted marinated and canned artichokes;
• 10 g salt for dough;
• 240 ml of water.
Cooking
• Thoroughly mix dry ingredients - flour, yeast and salt;
• add oil to the heated water and, gradually pouring it into the dishes with flour, start kneading the dough;
• knead the dough for about 8 minutes until it is stuck to your fingers;
• the dough bowl should be deep enough, because, in it, covered with cling film, it has to be warm in 10-16 hours;
• for this period, crush the dough a couple of times, and once again, crush when you put it on the work surface;
• gently and slowly knead and stretch the dough on the pizza crust;
• put tomato sauce on the cake;
• If the store sauce is not usual in the kitchen at the moment, homemade sauce can be easily prepared from tomatoes, peeled, minced to softness in olive oil and crushed, then mixed in equal proportions with tomato paste, the final touch of the sauce is a pinch of salt and ground pepper to taste;
• Boil and chop the eggs for the winter filling, chop the mushrooms and fry until ready. Put the stuffing mixed;
• for autumn - cut mozzarella and fresh tomato into thin slices. Spread this filling overlap;
• for summer, thinly chop the salami and chop the pepper into strips, place the pepper on top of the sausage;
• for spring, cut off the unwanted bases of the artichokes and cut the artichokes into plates, cut the olives in half, put the filling together;
• each filling should take one quarter of the pizza circle; • Sprinkle the whole pizza with grated parmesan and put in an oven heated to 220 degrees for 25 minutes.
Recipe 4. How to quickly make pizza at home: Pepperoni pizza
Ingredients
The proportions of the additional type of flour to wheat flour can be changed, instead of rye, you can take oatmeal, rice, corn or buckwheat flour.
• 180-210 g of rye and wheat flour;
• half onion;
• 10 g yeast;
• fresh parsley;
• 260 ml of water;
• melted butter for frying;
• 50 ml of red wine;
• ground black pepper;
• 250 g gauda;
• 70 g of olive oil;
• 300 g salami;
• 250 g tomatoes in own juice;
• 10 g salt for the dough and 5 g salt for the sauce;
• 5 g sugar for sauce and 5 g sugar for dough.
Cooking
• mix two types of flour, add salt;
• pour yeast with sugar into warm water, pour in oil;
• pour the flour in a slide with a hollow in the center and gradually pour in water, adding more and more flour;
• knead the dough so long that it does not stick to your hands;
• cover the bowl with a film with it and put it in the heat for an hour to rise;
• chop the onion with a knife and save to caramel color in melted butter;
• turn canned tomatoes into mashed potatoes using a blender, add to the onions, add salt with sugar and pepper;
• Pour red wine into the sauce and add almost to the boil;
• add chopped parsley and, stirring, boil the sauce to the desired thickness;
• Roll the dough into a pizza crust, better thinner, so that the pizza comes out crispy;
• lubricate the base for the pizza sauce;
• lay out thinly sliced salami;
• crumble the grated cheese on top;
• send for 15-20 minutes to bake in the oven at 190 degrees.
Recipe 5. How to quickly make pizza at home: Frutti di Mare pizza
Ingredients
• 350 g of sea cocktail from pre-boiled shrimps, squids, mussels and octopuses almost to readiness; • A spoonful of flavored olive oil, infused with herbs and / or spices;
• 35 ml of vegetable oil for the test;
• 2 eggs;
• 12 g yeast;
• 200 g of mozzarella and 60 g of parmesan;
• a quarter pack of butter;
• 480 ml of milk;
• 120 ml of water;
• 130 g tomatoes in their own juice;
• fresh dill;
• 10 g of sugar and salt for the test;
• 480 g and 2 tablespoons of flour;
• ground pepper and a pinch of salt for the filling.
Cooking
• Heat 180 ml of milk, dilute it with 100 ml of water and dissolve yeast, salt and sugar in liquid;
• break one egg into a mixture of milk and water, then add sunflower oil and stir;
• start sifting almost half a pound of flour into the liquid, stirring so that there are no lumps;
• when the ingredients thicken, the dough will form into a lump, cover it with foil and leave for 30 minutes to come up in a warm place;
• fry two tablespoons of flour until golden brown in a dry frying pan;
• heat the remaining milk and melt the butter in it;
• add flour slowly, stirring so that lumps do not form;
• beat the egg and add to the milk sauce, mix;
• grate Parmesan, shake out in a frying pan, salt and pepper everything;
• Boil down the sauce to the desired thickness.
• canned tomatoes turn into a mashed blender;
• stretch the dough with your hands, form a cake;
• lubricate it, alternating stripes and lines of dairy and tomato sauce;
• lay out the sea stuffing;
• spread mozzarella slices on top and sprinkle with chopped dill;
• put the pizza in a heated oven to 220 degrees for 22-27 minutes;
• On the eve of serving, sprinkle pizza with fragrant oil.
Recipe 6. How to quickly make pizza at home: dessert pizza with pear
Ingredients
• 420 g of flour;
• a pack of cottage cheese;
• 40 g sugar;
• two eggs;
• 40 g of liquid honey;
• 10 g of salt;
• 125 g of cheese dor blue, gorgonzola and mozzarella;
• 80 ml of vegetable oil;
• a teaspoon of walnut oil; • 250 ml of kefir;
• a pair of sweet hard pears;
• 8-10 g of soda.
Cooking
• add soda to kefir;
• Put cottage cheese in a bowl, cover with kefir and grind into mashed potatoes without lumps;
• salt, add sugar, pour in 40 ml of vegetable oil and mix;
• break an egg into the curd, mix again;
• in small portions, add flour to the curd mass and knead the soft dough;
• work on it, kneading, it is impossible. Just wrap the dough with film and put on the shelf for half an hour, then warm to room temperature and roll into the cake;
• mix the honey with the remaining 40 ml of vegetable oil and brush them with the cake;
• evenly distribute mozzarella slices and thin slices of pear;
• place small pieces of gorgonzola and dor blue on top;
• put the pizza for 23-25 minutes in an oven heated to 220 degrees;
• remove, sprinkle with nut oil and return to the oven for another 2 minutes.
How to quickly cook pizza at home - tips and tricks
• so that the dough does not rise with bladders during baking, you need to pierce it in several places with a knife or fork before applying the sauce and filling;
• you can grate the pizza with the grated cheese on top, but also distribute part of it between the sauce and the filling, which, while the latter is juicy, will prevent the cake from getting wet, and besides, if there is a lot of cheese, the whole mass will not stick at the top.
