Our first self made pizza….and certainly not the last

I’ve been craving for pizza ever since I’m in Melbourne. Due to the dear price most of the pizza seller here, I decided not to buy but instead make them. Thanks to Sharon and Yong Yi that our Jamie Oliver’s cook book finally arrived in Melbourne and we can tryout his recipe especially in the art of pizza making. Thanks Jamie once again for his recipe.

Making pizza is actually very easy. The toppings can be anything you want and/or you like. The harder part of it is the base dough. Well, Jamie gave a very simple recipe to make the dough and it is very simple. The only thing you need to work on is some strength to give the dough some “massages”. We bought most of the ingredient from Coles Supermarket. If I’m not mistaken, we used up about AUD 15.00 for all the ingredient and we are able to make 7 large pizzas!

To make, just mix 1kg of flour with 600ml of lukewarm water and yeast. The trick is make a well in the pile of flour and slowly pour the “yeasted water” in and mix them until the dough is “massageable”. After the massage, leave the flour for 15 minutes to let the flour expand. From there, pull out the number of pizza base you want. We managed to pull out 7. And this is how the “pulled out” dough looks like.

Then, use a roller to flatten the dough to form the base of the pizza. If you don’t have a roller like us, we used, a bottle . Is alright if the shape of the base is not circle. Jamie’s pizza also is not circle. For me, it gives the sense of more “original” pizza. Spread tomato sauce on top of the base and put whatever toppings you want. I think the secret to the “ummpphhh-ness” to a nice pizza is to be very generous with your mozzarella and cheddar cheese.