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Best Basic Pizza Dough

Make Delicious Home Made Crispy Pizzas

It costs so little to make this basic pizza dough.
One recipe will make four 12"/30cm. light and crispy Pizzas or two hearty deep pan Pizzas.
Choose any toppings you like for a tasty treat. We've invented one that we really love - specially made in a wood burning oven.
The toppings include: chorizo, mushrooms, our own homemade tomato sauce, capers, buffalo mozzarella and flaked chillis. We call it the "Cutting Edge".

Experiment with your own ingredients until you get the Perfect Pizza.

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Ingredients for Four People.

210 ml./ 3/4 cup of tepid water.
2 tbs. of extra virgen olive oil.
2 tsps. Granulated sugar.
2 tsps. Salt.
3 Cups 450g. /1lb. Of strong white bread flour.
1 x 7g. Envelope of easy bake yeast - U.S.A. instant yeast.

N.B. For Wholemeal dough use 50% strong white flour and 50% wholemeal flour.

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Method

Put all the ingredients into your Bread Maker in the order they are listed.
Set it to the dough program making sure to follow the instructions.
Or by hand - In a warm bowl, mix all the dry ingredients together.
Add the water and mix.
Add the olive oil and mix to form a soft dough.
Knead for about ten minutes on a floured surface.

Divide the dough into either two or four equal pieces and shape them into balls.
Place on a floured surface and cover with oiled cling film.
Leave to prove in a warm place for 40 - 60 minutes or until doubled in size, making sure you leave enough room for the dough to double!
When the pizza dough is completed in the machine or by hand, roll it out on a floured surface into 4 rounds as thin as you can or 2 thicker ones.
This recipe will make 4 crispy thin based Pizzas or 2 hearty deep pan Pizzas.
Spread on the tomato sauce and whatever toppings you prefer finishing with the mozzarella.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 220c/420f for 10-12 minutes for the thin and crispy bases and 15-25 minutes for the hearty bases.
Serve immediately.