Pizza is the most Italian dish there is! The most loved of Italian dishes, delicious and simple, easy to prepare and to season in a thousand variations, using the imagination: in the post, useful and interesting tips to prepare the perfect pizza even at home as in a pizzeria, as well as tips and trivia about Pizza.
La pizza contends, together with pasta, for the primacy of most famous Italian recipe in the world. Simple and loved by everyone, today there are endless variations. Pizza has become a true work of art of taste. But let's see how to prepare it at home, in complete autonomy.
Pizza has always suited all tastes and palates. There are those who prefer it as thin as that From Michele to Naples and those who prefer it high, like pizzas with the edge of Verona. In any case, pizza has always been a great match for adults and children and making it at home is an experience that makes everyone happy, especially those who love cooking. So let's see the pizza recipe.
Practical information
Difficulty: easy
Preparation: 10 minutes + 12 hours of leavening
Cooking: 30 minutes
Doses: 2 people
Presentation of the dish: history and traditions
Pizza is a typical dish of Italian cuisine and is known all over the world.
It seems that it has a very long history and that the first pizzas date back to the times of Egyptians.
But as we know it we must reach 1889, when the Neapolitan chef Raffaele Esposito cooked one with colors of the Italian flag: mozzarella, tomato and basil, which he called “Margherita” in honor of Queen Margherita of Savoy.
Ingredients
For the dough:
30 g of oil
200 grams of water
1 teaspoon of sugar
25 g of yeast
250 gr of flour "00"
150 gr of whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon salt
Garnishing:
mozzarella in pieces
tomato sauce
ingredients we like best, arm yourself with imagination!
Preparation
It starts with the preparation of the dough.
In a bowl, combine the water, sugar and yeast. Stir until the yeast has dissolved completely.
Then, in the same bowl, add the flour, oil and salt and start kneading.
If you prefer, instead of doing it by hand, you can easily prepare it using a food processor.
If the dough is "sticky" I suggest you add a little flour.
Once you get a homogeneous mixture, create a ball and put it in a previously greased bowl. Cover it with a damp cloth or cling film. If you don't want it to stick to the latter, grease it with a drop of oil.
Put the bowl in a dry and warm place, away from drafts, and let the dough double (about half a day).
Once the dough is nice and swollen, transfer it to a lightly floured work surface, so as to prevent it from sticking, and start working it.
Divide it into two more or less equal parts e let it rest for another half hour before starting to roll it out to create your pizzas.
As for the filling, leave room for imagination and season it with the ingredients you like best.
Once this procedure is finished, put your pizzas in a preheated oven at a temperature of 200 ° for about thirty minutes. Obviously, the temperature and cooking time vary from everyone's oven, so check it after about twenty minutes.
Curiosities and Advice
The pizza dough can be easily prepared and stored in a freezing bag. Maybe divide it already into portions so you can then use it if necessary.
The pizza already represents a complete plate for this it is not necessary to cook anything else. But surely a good beer is an excellent accompaniment. The little ones can enjoy it with a drink.
Also delicious to eat the next day, both heated and at room temperature.
Advice for connoisseurs
Instead of normally chopping mozzarella with a knife, try putting one at a time in the masher. I assure you that this advice will be greatly appreciated: the perfect quantity of mozzarella strips comes out and you can put it evenly on the whole pizza without getting giant pieces that run away here and there.
When we say pizza we immediately think of the weekend. And what's better than a pleasant one family evening? Pizza is one of those dishes that everyone agrees on!
