Pizza Dough recipe and ideas

📝 Ingredients

• 600 g cake flour (I use 00 flour)
• 5 ml salt
• 25 g wet yeast
• 325 ml water
• Pinch of sugar

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1600g cake flour5ml salt25g wet yeast325ml waterPinch of sugarMix togetherTurn out onto worktop and knead for 10 min until silky smooth. Oil a bowl and place dough in bowl covered for 2 hours. I left mine for 6 hours. Roll into 125g balls and leave until ready to use
2. 2Roll out to desired thinness - we like thin and crispy
3. 3We lit the fire around 5 and enjoyed that over a nice glass of wine. Last night we video called friends in Simon's Town to catch up with how we are all coping with #LockDown
4. 4Brian prepares the ingredients. These are my favorite ones.
5. 5Here are some ideas. We did this board so we don't forget what our options are
6. 6Ready for the oven
7. 7I love fresh origanum from my garden it's about the one thing I CAN grown. I also add chilli at this stage
8. 8Brian is the official pizza cutter. We've had many pizza cutters over the years, we've found the @oxo pizza cutter to be very capable and inexpensive
9. 9Throw another log on the fire and enjoy the rest of the evening
10. 10--- Pizza dough lesson ---
11. 11Mix 600g “00” flour (cake flour will do), 5ml salt, 25g fresh yeast, 375ml water and pinch of castor sugar
12. 12Knead for 10 min- photo above is after 5 min
13. 13After 10 min of kneading
14. 14Place in bowl coated with olive oil and leave to prove for 1 hr knock back and leave for another hour
15. 15Batch of 8 122-125g balls of dough. Leave covered for additional hr. Roll out and use. I dry cook in frying pan for 2 min a side (the extra) and freeze. This gives them a bit of body and stops them from sticking to each other. Obviously the proper Italian way is to use all the dough.
16. 16After 2hrs of proving