Best Homemade Pizza

How to make homemade pizza! Pizza is one of my favourite food choices and I absolutely love making and eating pizza. Mama Mia, I am not 100% sure, but I think everybody loves pizza, especially kids, teens and young at heart adults ( lets say up to 80 years old, just to be on the safe side ). In fact, I have never met anyone that doesn’t love pizza, and if you know someone who doesn’t, please don’t introduce us ????. Making homemade pizza is not as hard as you might think. You can make it thin and crispy or thick and chewy. I have been making pizza for years and I have tried many different recipes.

I started experimenting with pizza using the the thin and crispy base because it is much easier but soon got bored with it and wanted to make the spongy chewy base pizza and it was hit and miss because I didn’t know what I was doing.

To make a consistent quality homemade pizza, you need to know the rules associated with making pizza. The dough, the sauce, cheese, toppings, oven temperature and many other little things that need to be understood if you want to make a good homemade pizza every time.

A great looking and tasting pizza have a base that doesn’t flop down when you hold a pizza slice, a chewy, springy crust that will bounce back up when you press it down and also has a slightly brown crust and cheese, no large cremated bubbles and large black spots, little ones are inviting though.

For a homemade pizza using your domestic oven you need to invest in a pizza stone to be able to cook the base of the dough correctly. A stone is what most professional restaurants, pizzerias and pizza takeaway/delivery places use in their large pizza ovens to cook the pizza because a stone gets very hot and holds the temperature well.

You will also need to invest in a pizza peel or shovel so you can place the pizza in and out of the oven easily in one piece. These will last you many years, so, make life easy.

To make the perfect pizza you need to make the perfect dough, the perfect sauce and the perfect pizza preparation (putting everything together). You also need to heat up your oven to the maximum temperature for about an hour to give the pizza stone time to get hot enough to cook the base of the pizza. This is the most important thing to cook the pizza the way it should be cooked.

Because I will be posting many different pizza recipes, I thought it would be better for everyone if I posted how to make the dough and how to make the sauce in their own posts, so I don’t have to repeat posting them with every new pizza and to also keep the pizza posts shorter, saving time for both, you and me.

Click here to learn how to make the perfect pizza dough.

Click here to learn how to make the perfect pizza sauce.

Watch How To Make The Perfect Homemade Pizza

Before you start to shape your homemade pizza prepare the pizza sauce, the cheese and any toppings for your pizza and have everything ready so you can move quickly when your homemade pizza is ready to go in the oven. The semolina and flour help the pizza slides off the peel onto the pizza stone, but if you take too long they will go inside the dough and your dough will stick to the peel.

It is important to flour everything that comes in contact with your pizza dough including your hands so the dough doesn’t stick. Start by sprinkling flour and semolina on the work surface and place the dough on top.

Start pressing the dough about 25mm/1 inch from the outside to form the crust. Turn the dough round as you continue to form the crust all around. Next, place one palm down next to the crust’s inside and stretch in opposite directions with both hands as you stretch with your palm and pull with your thumb and fingers of the other hand, all as you turn the dough round at the same time as you can see in the video.

When you finish stretching the pizza, it should look like the picture below. Sprinkle flour and semolina on the pizza peel and gently move the dough onto the peel. You now need to work quickly to add the pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and toppings so you can place your homemade pizza on the pizza stone.

Next start adding the pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and toppings, try to use as little and few items as possible, this will help keep the top of your pizza light and prevent it from being soggy.

Watch the video for the recommended amounts and notice the slice is staying flat and not flopping down.

Once you’re done adding the toppings, place the pizza on the pizza stone and keep monitoring the pizza. When the pizza crust and cheese start to brown, your homemade pizza is ready. Use the peel to remove it and place it on a chopping board.

Grate some parmesan cheese and add a drizzle of olive oil on your pizza.

Optional, you can mix a little pizza sauce with half a teaspoon of garlic granules and a teaspoon of olive oil to brush the crust giving it a hint of garlicky taste.

Use a pizza slicer to slice it as you like. I find it easier to make 8 slices by making 4 symmetrical cuts.

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