Cheezy Pizza

My family and friends are crazy about thin crust pizzas especially my boyfriend. He can finish two 10 inches pizza on his own within 2 hours! He even indicated to me to concentrate my baking skills to only making pizzas since that is his favourite of all.

By looking at the variety pizza dough recipes on hand, it does not look complicated at all. Last night, I just followed the recipe provided in my bread maker machine and as usual, let the machine do the work of kneading and rising. However, when the dough is ready for me to do the shaping, it was in such a mess. The dough was too wet and sticky and so, so unmanageable. In the end, I just gave up and the whole thing ended up in the drain. It was such a let down.

This morning, I decided to modify the ingredients by reducing the amount of water. At least, this time around, the dough is much more better and manageable.

Ingredients:

(yields 2 ten inches pizzas)

3/4 cup water

1 tbsp olive oil

2 1/2 cup bread flour

1 tbsp sugar

1tsp salt

1 tsp dry active yeast

Toppings:

Pizza tomato sauce

Shredded mozzarella cheese

Vegetable oil

Method:

1) Dump all the ingredients according to the list above into the bread maker and select "Dough" function.

2) When the dough has completed, take out the dough with lightly floured hands and shape dough into a ball on a floured flat surface.

3) Divide the dough into half. Press each dough into greased 30 cm pizza pan.

4) Brush crust with vegetable oil. Cover and let stand for 10-15 minutes.

5) Spoon pizza tomato sauce over dough and top generously with cheese and toppings of your choice.

6) Bake in preheated oven at 200 deg. C for 25-30 minutes or until cheese is bubbly and crust is golden brown.

Outcome:

Although the dough is meant for thin crust pizza, somehow to my disappointment, it came out 1.5-2 cm thick. Other than the thickness, the pizzas tasted not bad. The generous pizza sauce and cheese is enough to compensate the thick bread crust ;)