It is very easy to make a pizza at home once you get the basics right
What’s more, you can make it healthier by:
-adding healthy ingredients to the dough such as flaxseed and some whole wheat flour
-keep the crust as thin as you like to reduce the carbs
-add as little cheese as you want
This is one of the items we make in my Breaking Bread workshop and believe me when I tell you, if I don’t take a picture in the first few seconds, it’s all GONE.
That’s only because, it turns out so good. I’m sharing the exact same recipe with you, so you can try it at home and you have some of my youtube videos to help you with the steps
Bubbly active yeast ready to use
My TOP 5 TIPS for a perfect pizza
1. Make sure your yeast is bubbly and active. I use the instant yeast Gloripan, available on online gourmet stores like Zansaar and some others. Learn how to activate yeast properly by watching my video.
2. Make sure the dough is doubled in volume
3. Don’t make the spread out dough soggy by pouring too much sauce. Use a thin layer
4. Cheese goes first, then the toppings
5. Don’t go overboard with toppings. Less is more. Too many toppings make the pizza thicker and the base won’t get cooked properly
Photo courtesy my Bread workshop student-Harsha P (used with permission)
| Servings |
- 3 Makes medium pizzas
- 1 OR large rectangle
- 1 cup water lukewarm
- 1 1/4 tsps yeast instant (or active dry)
- 1 1/4 tsps yeast instant (or active dry)
- 2 1/2 tsps yeast OR fresh , crumbled .
- cups 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour .
- 1/4 cup whole wheat flour .
- 2 tbsps flaxseed powder
- 1/2 tsp salt .
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 tbsps olive oil
- 2 tbsps olive oil .
- 4 cloves garlic , grated or finely minced .
- 1 onion small , very finely chopped .
- 200 grams tomato puree (tetrapack is fine).
- Pinch chilli powder or flakes .
- 1 tsp black pepper freshly ground .
- Handful basil fresh leaves , finely chopped
- 2 tspns OR dried herbs .
- 1 tsp sugar .
- 1/2 tsp salt .
- . Toppings of choice
- Mozzarella
Ingredients For Pizza Base
For Pizza Sauce
You also need-
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- For base:
- In a large bowl, mix the water, sugar and yeast. Let it sit for 5-10 mins until frothy. This means that the yeast is active. Add the flours, flaxseed, milk, salt and knead until it comes together.
- Add the olive oil and knead till the dough is smooth (around 5 minutes). Cover and keep aside until doubled in volume. This could take 30 mins-1 hour depending on the weather.
- Divide into 3 or 4 balls and keep aside. If you are making one large rectangle, as shown in the picture, then no need to divide into 3 portions.
- Saffron Trail Kitchen -Video: How to activate yeast | Video: How to make pizza dough.
- For sauce:
- Heat the oil, saute the garlic and onions until soft (around 3-5 mins), do not brown the onions. Add all remaining ingredients, and simmer for 3-4 minutes along with fresh basil leaves. Remove into a bowl and keep aside.
- You can make this ahead of time and refrigerate in air tight container. Let this cool to room temperature before spreading on the dough.
- Keep the toppings of your choice and mozzarella cheese ready.
- To make pizza:
- Preheat oven to 180xb0C.
- Grease a large square of tin foil with olive oil. Place the ball of dough and with fingers stretch it out by pressing, into 7-8" diameter circle. Smear with oil and allow this to rest for 5 minutes.
- Spread the pizza sauce (2 tbsp) evenly over this. Top with cheese (sliced or grated) and then scatter toppings of your choice (olives, jalapenos, bell pepper, onions etc.) -don't overload pizza with toppings or it wont bake through.
- Bake for 25 minutes at 180xb0C until you see the edges are golden brown.
- Cut into pieces and eat immediately.
Thank you for sharing the recipe to make pizza dough. But the ingredient quantity you say on the video is not matching with what has been written in the recipe… Can you please update that
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A great homemade, healthy dish Nandita. I have stumbled across similar homemade pizza and Mexican Pizza recipes on a website, Prestige SmartChef website. You should definitely give this a try.
omg,not a single comment.I am surprised!!! The details of pizza base are very helpful.I am going to try it tomorrow.pizza topping look yummy.
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I’m all for homemade pizza! This looks so yum!!
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I just relocated from Bangalore and I used to have Namdhari Fresh, Nilgiris at walkable distance from my house, so never had thought that getting Thai Basil Or Lemongrass would be so difficult in Hyderabad. Thanks a ton for the information, I will be rushing the stores today to grab some.Though I did check Hypercity Inorbit Mall, they didn’t have the fresh herbs. 🙁
I get oregano basil and others from a store called Perigreen Safe Foods that is located near osmania university http://store.perigreensafefoods.com/
This looks so delicious and what a great stay-at-home date night idea! I wonder if it will taste as good with all ready made pizza dough. I will have to try variations of this recipe! http://www.dellsuno.com
Hello, we made the pizza sauce at home today for the first time and it turned out really well! Both me and my mom were very impressed with the outcome and plan to make this every time we cook pizza hereafter 🙂 Also I thought that the same sauce could also be used to make Arrabbiata Pasta (we’ve never made this at home before). Thanks so much for the recipe!
Hopefully we’ll attempt the pizza base too one of these days. Thank you once again!
thanks for trying and getting back to me Riddhi 🙂 Sure it can also be used as a pasta sauce – add some sauteed mushrooms and chili flakes as well!