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Cheese Pizza

Ingredients

  • Crust
  • 3 1/2 cups Unbleached All-Purpose Flour or Bread Flour
  • 2 1/2 tsp. yeast
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1 1/3 plus luke-warm water
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 2 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • corn meal for dusting pan
  • Filling
  • Pizza Sauce
  • Shredded Mozzarella Cheese and Provolone Cheese
  • dried basil

Instructions

  1. In a glass measuring cup add luke-warm water - when it is at 105 - 115 degrees add the yeast and sugar.
  2. Allow the yeat to dissolve into the water. Meanwhile add the flour and salt to the bowl of a mixer with bread dough paddle attached. When the yeast has bubbled and foamed add extra virgin olive oil. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Mix on low. Once the ingredients are incorporated knead the dough at medium speed for five minutes. Prepare a glass dish by coating with olive oil - enough that when the dough is added to the dish and turned over a coating of oil will cover the dough. Allow dough to double. Punch the dough down and divide into sizes you intend to use. Allow the dough to rest for 15 minutes (if you use yeast specific for pizza crust this will not be necessary). Dust the pan with corn meal. Shape dough into disks on baking stone or inside a cast iron pan. Add the pizza sauce, the cheese and the dry basil. Bake at 425 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes until the cheese and the crust (on bottom) are lightly browned. This will be very hot!

Recipe Notes

if you use bread flour you may need a little bit more water - to achieve the right texture, you can also add a little flour when shaping so that it won't stick to your hands