Homemade Pizza from Scratch

Homemade Pizza from Scratch

We all love pizzas, the cheesy vegetable loaded pizza, who can resisit? What if we could make it at home and even better that the market ones.

Well, this recipe is just perfect to make the pizza from scratch at home. It does sound like an exhaustive process but believe me it’s not that difficult. All the patience and hard work are worth it when you will get to enjoy the cheese bursting pizza with a nice crispy crust.

Knowing the fact it is homemade it will be free from any preservatives or bad stuff. It can surely be enjoyed once or twice in a month.

Ingredients needed to make Homemade Pizza

• First, Flour-All purpose or whole wheat flour
• Yeast-Make sure to use fresh dried yeast, if it’s old it might not work.
• Sugar-For proofing the yeast
• Olive oil
• Salt
• For toppings
• Mozzarella Cheese
• Oregano
• Bell peppers, Onions, Mushrooms, Jalapenos, Olives

How to make Pizza?

First of all make the pizza dough. In a bowl add warm water and sugar and yeast. Let it proof for 2-3 minutes. Now knead the pizza dough with this yeast water along with olive oil, and salt. Make sure to knead the dough for 7-8 minutes to ensure gluten develops.

Let the dough rest for at least 2 hours in a warm place. Once the dough is risen, punch it with your knuckles. Divide into two balls and roll it into pizza shape.

Arrange the topping layers and bake in preheated oven at 220° C for 12-15 minutes or until it is crispy golden from the edges.

Remove from oven, slice and serve right away. To make thin crust pizza, divide the dough into four equal parts intead of two. Roll a slightly thin pizza and bake.

"Making pizza at home from scratch is so theraputic and the results are just outstanding".

Can we freeze the dough or pizza?

Yes, absolutely the pizza dough could be frozen in freezer safe bags. Thaw it properly before making the pizza.

The already made pizza can also be frozen, place them in zip lock bags and store in freezer. Thaw properly and reheat in MW or preheated oven for 2-3 minutes.

Other Pizza Recipes

Vegan Tofu Tikka Pizza

Butter Paneer Naanizza

Cauliflower Crust Pizza

Mini Veg Pizza

Mushroom Pizza Pockets

Serving Suggestions

Serve the homemade pizza with Strawberry lemonade, Mango mojito or Dalgona Coffee.

Looking for more such pizza recipes to get some ideas for your meals? Do not miss my Pizza Cupcakes and Phyllo Pizza and the best one’s Pizza Margherita.

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Pizza Knots

Sapana Behl

These Italian homemade pizza knots are so damn delicious that you will definitely include them in your weekly menu once you make it at home.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Resting Time 2 hours hrs

Course Homemade

Cuisine Italian

Servings 6 People

Calories 292 kcal

Equipment

• Mixing Bowl
• Baking Tray

Ingredients

  

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• 2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 1/2 cup warm water
• 1 tablespoon dry yeast
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 teaspoon salt

For Filling

• 1 cup pizza sauce
• 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
• 1 teaspoon red chilly flakes
• 1 teaspoon oregano dried
• 1 teaspoon black pepper crushed
• salt to taste

Instructions

 

• In a large bowl, add sugar in warm water. Sprinkle yeast and let it stand for about 10 minutes, until foamy.
• Stir the olive oil and salt into the yeast mixture, then mix in the whole wheat flour and the all-purpose flour and knead a smooth dough.
• Place dough in a bowl. Cover loosely with a towel, and let it stand in a warm place until doubled in size or at least for 1 hour.
• When the dough is doubled, with the help of dry flour, make two balls from it.
• Preheat the oven to 220 degrees. Roll a ball of dough with a rolling pin until it will not stretch any further or to the shape and size of your choice. Prick it with a fork with proper spacing.
• Top pizza with a layer of pizza sauce and spread cheese evenly.
• Cut the dough into medium thick strips. Take one strip and cut it into two hales but make sure to not cut all the way to the one end.
• Start overlapping the two strips of dough over each other making a braid like shape. Once you reach the end bing it towards making a circle shape and pinch the edges together.
• Brush them with olive oil and sprkle the herbs.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until the crust, is crisp and golden at the edges, and cheese is melted on the top.
• Adjust the seasoning if desired.

Nutrition

Serving: 2KnotsCalories: 292kcalCarbohydrates: 52.1gProtein: 10.1gFat: 4.7gSaturated Fat: 1.4gCholesterol: 6mgSodium: 108mgPotassium: 175mgFiber: 2.8gSugar: 2.2gCalcium: 92mgIron: 4mg

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Sapana Behl