Pizza, everyone loves it, everyone has their own favourite form. Be it thin crust of thick, eaten crust first or middle first. Rolled up or cut up. With your fingers or with a knife and fork. With parmesan or with a splash of tobasco. Pizza is one of the most profitable things to sell, the cheap cost of the ingredients and the high price one has to pay is motivation enough to make this at home. Of course one has to be driven by a great love of pizza too. I like my pizza thin crust, crispy and with minimal ingredients. Just one or 2 toppings, max with good cheese and a crispy crust. H loves loves loves olives so our pizza has loads of it. And our salads. And our sandwiches. You can make you own tomato sauce like Hanne. Mine came from a jar.. JI always bake my pizza at my oven full whack at 250C to mimic the hearth of a clay brick pizza oven, or so I’ll like to imagine. Actually, maybe cos I’m greedy and impatient and like my pizza from rolled to finish in 6 mins. The high heat makes the bread light and airy. I make my bread like I always do, with cold water and risen in an airtight container. I know that the pizza didn’t look that thin crusted in the photo. I think the edges tend to puff up a lot as there isn’t the weight of all the ingedients on it. But trust me, these were so floppy I wanted to roll up each slice and eat it in a mouthful.
THIN CRUST Pizza
Makes 5 medium sized pizzas
Ingredients
500g bread flour
11g instant yeast (I used 1 satchet which was 11g, roughly equals 2 heaped teaspoons)
300 ml cold water
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tsp salt
2 tablespoons softened butter
Method
Attach dough hook to mixer. Mix flour, yeast, sugar and salt for 1 min. Add water and mix at medium speed for 2 mins. Increase speed and add in the butter. Continue kneading for 12-15 mins till dough is well developed. Put the soft dough, it may be sticky, into an airtight container 3 x its size. Allow to prove for one hour. Flour hands and work suface. Roll into balls and roll out with a rolling pin, adding flour generously to prevent sticking. Roll as thin as you possible can, as the dough will rise a lot and ur thin crust will end up fairly thick otherwise. Place on baking sheet, add olive oil, tomato sauce, a good grating of cheddar and mozzarella, pepperoni and yes, loads of olives. Bake at 250C or as high as your oven can go for 5-6 mins till cheese is bubbly and golden.
I used the meat stuffing from my stuffed mushroom recipe as a topping.
I agree, thin is the best! The pictures make me hungry
Nice! I am craving for pizza now.
My favourite pizza topping is sauteed spinach, garlic, egg and parmesan! And lots of good oil shaken over it.
Most people here seem to go for Margherita.
Your pizza looks delicious! I love thin-crust pizza. I remember when I visited pizza, there was nothing more amazing to me than the pizzas you got there, that were so floppy you had to fold them in half lenghtwise to eat them. So good! I’m always on the lookout for a good thin crust recipe, so thanks for posting this.
Your pizza would be a hit here in Sao Paulo - we like our crust very thin!
It looks wonderful!
Ah pizza… Everyone seems to be having pizza as of late; Laureen (thecoffeesnob) baked some pretty hawaiian pizza for her friends, my sis baked some for my mom’s birthday party, and now you too! I’m intending to try to bake some pretty soon, just using the ready-to-pop-in-the-oven crusts from Cold Storage, but now I’m getting lovely inspirations from everyone
A quick question, where dya get your pepperoni slices from? And you said you bought the tomato sauce; any good brands to recommend?
That looks amazing! I totally agree on the thin crust preference too. Great job!
I too am a great fan of thin crust! And found that using a LARGE amount of flour when rolling out the dough and not brushing it off before baking, makes the crust come out really crispy. Am hugry just looking at your photo
Also I make a simple margarita pizza with little cheese and then top it with rocket (arugala) and a little ricotta cheese and ground pepper! It is wonderful.
i waaannnnnnntttttttttttttttttttt!
ps i’m watching deal or no deal and you look a little like fiona x. ha ha
Linda: The trick is to be generous with the flour so it rolls out real thin and is crispy Like what Erika suggested. And don’t oil the pan!
Tommy: What an unusual combination! Will have to try it..
Hanne: Wish I could eat pizza in Pizza!
Patricia: A love for pizza is universal!
Ovenhaven: the brand is Segar and I bought it at Giant Parkway Parade. U can get it at carrefour too. I used prego vegetarian spagetti sauce. But a real thin layer. I usually make my own cos I’m allergic to MSG. But the Prego brand is ok for me in small quantities. U should just saute onions with garlic and tomato for a yummy sauce. I was just lazy..
Jen/Oliver: Was inspired by your pizza!
Erika: Great idea, I can use up the arugula which I bought a ton of and still lounging in my fridge.it got neglected after being a star for a few meals..
Shafaa(my cousin): Haha, how interesting.. A few people have said that about Afiyah (my sister). BTW, where did u disppear to?
hahaha, and afiyah looks like you, so that explains it! i didn’t disappear exactly, been busy with term papers and exam prep. once i visited your blog when i should have been working on my essay, and as luck would have it, it was the post where u asked people to spot the irony in the photo, and damn, i KNEW the answer was the sadness+pain content but i just haaad to go on looking for other possibilities, like, maybe literally there’s the word “irony” in the passage? hahaah geez. then i thought ok shafaa get a grip, and banned myself from your site for a few days. everything looks yummy as alwayssss. H is a lucky person. who’s gonna get FAT in no time. haha.
whoo…. I wish I could eat pizza in Pizza too… it’d probably be a lovely place. I meant to write “Italy.” I’ve got pizza on the brain, obviously.
Hanne: Hahaha! You made me think there really was a place called “Pizza”. I thought it must be some quaint place in Italy where pizza was born.
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