Pizza for dad and the whole family

With Father’s Day tomorrow, one of the best gifts that you can give dad this Father’s Day is a full – and satisfied –stomach.

SASKO Flour have given News readers a quick and easy-to-prepare Pizza Dough recipe, that is ideal for the whole family. Once your Pizza Dough is complete, allow the family to choose their own favourite toppings, to finish their pizza.

SASKO’s PIZZA DOUGH

Makes 3 Pizzas

Ingredients

150g Sasko Cake Flour

100g Sasko White Bread Flour

10g sachet instant yeast

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp salt

1 cup luke-warm water

Flour for dusting

Toppings inspiration: Cheese, tomatoes paste, herbs/olive oil/tomato/salami/mushrooms etc

Method

Step 1: Pour all of the dry ingredients into a large bowl and stir together to combine.

Step 2: Pour in the water and stir with a fork until a bread dough starts to form, then turn out onto a floured surface and bring together to form a ball.

Step 3: Knead the dough for 6-8 minutes until it becomes silky and elastic in texture.

Step 4: Dust a bowl with flour and put the dough in, cover with a cloth/cling film, place in a warm place and leave to rise for 20-30 minutes or until it has doubled in size.

Step 5: Preheat the oven to 240*C

Step 6: Beat the dough back down and divide into 3 smaller balls.

Step 7: Dust a rolling surface with flour, place the dough balls on the flour, cover with a cloth and allow to rise for a further 10-15 minutes.

Step 8: Dust the pizza dough with more flour and roll out to your desired pizza shapes.

Step 9: Dust a baking tray with flour to prevent pizzas from sticking.

Step 10: Transfer the pizza base to the baking tray, prick with a fork, top with toppings of your choice and bake in the oven for 7-10 minutes or until crisp around the edges and beginning to brown.

Tip 1: It is important that you add warm and not hot water to the dry ingredients because if the water is too hot it will damage the yeast and the bread won’t rise.

Tip 2: Kneading the dough is a vital part of the process as it allows the gluten in the flour to develop, resulting in bread that is light rather than dense and dry.

Tip 3: If you don’t want to use the dough straight away then keep it covered with cling film in the fridge until needed (after it has risen and been beaten down).

Tip 4: Before placing your toppings on the pizza, line the base with a tomato paste and season to taste.

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