Crunchy pizza base

Name: Crunchy pizza base
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour; 1 tsp salt; 1/4 cup oil; 1 tsp sugar; 1 cup lukewarm water; 1/2 tsp active dry yeast; 1/4 cup maize flour

Millicent Wamaitha @cook_12229850

Nairobi

Crunchy pizza base

Millicent Wamaitha @cook_12229850

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Ingredients

3 1/2 cupsall purpose flour
1 tspsalt
1/4 cupoil
1 tspsugar
1 cuplukewarm water
1/2 tspactive dry yeast
1/4 cupmaize flour

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Steps

1

Into a mixing bowl or basin(kibandanski style) put sugar,oil,dry yeast and then pour the lukewarm water and stir.
2

Let it sit for 5-10 mins so that the yeast feeds or gets active. It should froth or foam.
3

In a separate bowl,mix the all purpose flour and salt then add it into the yeast mixture in bits with your hands. You can use a mixer too.
4

Knead the dough on a dusted surface for 10 mins to make it pliable.
5

Cover it with a clean kitchen towel and place it in a warm area in your kitchen till it doubles in size,say 1 hour.
6

Punch it down and then divide your dough into four equal balls.
7

Roll out each ball into a nice round. I dust the surface with all purpose flour and some maize flour. This makes the base have some crunch when cooked/baked.