Pizza series 103: Pizza dough

Name: Pizza series 103: Pizza dough
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 1/2 pizzas
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: All-purpose flour; Water; Salt; Sugar; Yeast

Gabriella's kitchen254 @Gabby1999

This is the most crucial part of making a pizza. It may take several trials before you can get it right, so don't give up. A good pizza base should be crunchy on the bottom and soft and chewy on the top.

Gabriella's kitchen254 @Gabby1999

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Ingredients

1hr 30min

1/2 pizzas

All-purpose flour
Water
Salt
Sugar
Yeast

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Steps

1hr 30min

1

Warm the water then I n a bowl add the yeast and sugar to the water and leave it to bloom for 5 minutes
2

Add a little flour then salt and mix. Add more flour to make a soft dough.
3

Transfer it to a lightly dusted counter top and knead the dough for about 5-8 minutes. This increases the gluten strands making the dough chewy. Add oil to the dough abd continue kneading till a soft ball is formed.
4

Put it in a greased bowl and let it proof for an hour.
5

After it has proofed, it is now ready be used as your pizza base.