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Last updated: 26 Mar 2009

Best Pizza Base

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Best Pizza Base
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  • Prep: 30 mins  Cook: 20 mins
  • Serves: 15
This recipe produces a pizza base that is soft and doughy on the inside and slightly crusty on the outside. Cover it with your favourite sauce and toppings to make a delicious pizza.

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Ingredients

2 1/4 teaspoons dried active baking yeast
1/2 teaspoon dark brown soft sugar
350ml (12 fl oz) warm water (45 C)
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
425g (15 oz) plain flour

Preparation method

1. In a large bowl, dissolve the yeast and brown sugar in the warm water, and let sit for 10 minutes.
2. Stir the salt and oil into the yeast mixture. Mix in half of the flour.
3. Turn dough out onto a clean, well floured surface, and knead in more flour until the dough is no longer sticky. Place the dough into a well oiled bowl, and cover with a damp cloth. Let the dough rise until double; this should take about 1 hour. Punch down the dough, and form a tight ball. Allow the dough to relax for a minute before rolling out. Use for your favourite pizza recipe.
4. Preheat oven to 220 C / Gas mark 7. If you are baking the dough on a pizza stone, you may place your toppings on the dough, and bake immediately. If you are baking your pizza in a tray, lightly oil the pan, and let the dough rise for 15 or 20 minutes before topping and baking it.
5. Bake pizza in preheated oven, until the cheese and crust are golden brown, about 15 to 20 minutes.

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    Tweak: JOYCE Something else:

    Jay thank you so much for an EXCELLENT thick pizza base, that was crisp on the outside and chewy/tender on the inside! The only additions I did were: I baked them for 10 minutes prior to adding the toppings, and both tins were olive oiled WELL, and dusted with polenta. They came out of the tin very easy onto the cutting board. It was easy to make this. Just have to adjust weather and flour consistency to the stickiness of the dough. Some days need less, some days need MUCH more. I never roll the dough out, I just use my hands and flatten it in the bottom of the tins, working up the sides.

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    Tweak: RAYNEBOW Took shortcuts:

    I made this dough in my bread machine and it came out perfectly. The crust is crunchy on the outside and soft and tender on the inside. I did bake the crust about ten minutes before adding toppings and divided the dough to make smaller pizzas.

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    Review: KOMODOIZZY

    I had been looking for a pizza base that is thick and fluffy and this is the closest and best so far! It definitely makes 2 bases unless you have a huge pizza tin. And the trick to getting a crisp bottom on your crust is to bake it on a lower rack in your oven so your crust bakes before your toppings burn.

    Posted: 18 Jul 2008 Easy

        
        

    Review: TKF123

    Pretty good! If you aren't baking on a pizza stone, you should pre-bake it a little before putting on toppings or the middle will be under-done.

    Posted: 18 Jul 2008 Easy

        
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Nutrition

  • Calories 119.4kcal
  • Total Fat 2.1g
  • Saturated Fat 0.3g
  • Salt 156.7mg
  • Protein 3.1g
  • Sugars 0.6g