Ingredients
- 1 Cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon yeast
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 ounces of warm water
- Pizza sauce
- Mozzarella cheese
- Pepperoni slices
Why I chose to make a homemade pizza
I chose to make pizza just because it is one of my favourite things to eat. I usually just order pizza and this can get super expensive so I want to know a recipe that I can use whenever I crave pizza. Pizza is also a meal that is easy to have for leftovers so I can have a meal ready when I’m working on assignments in university. Time is a very valuable thing in university so sometimes the less time I have cooking is really beneficial for putting my time towards finishing up assignments.
What I learned
The first few steps of making the pizza dough was exactly what I was expecting. I put a cup of the all-purpose flour in a bowl and added one teaspoon of yeast, one teaspoon of sugar, and a quarter teaspoon of salt and stirred it around. After this I added one tablespoon of olive oil and three ounces of warm water into the bowl. From here it was time to stir the ingredients then eventually knead the dough. This is when it was time to get my hands dirty. The video told me to knead the dough till it was soft but not sticky. I wasn’t too sure when the dough would become sticky so I just did this for two minutes. After this I got a new bowl and greased it up with oil and kept it on my counter and put a towel over it to let the dough rise for about 40 minutes like the video suggested. After this, I avoided the step of making the pizza sauce from scratch. I felt like I could save time by just buying pizza sauce from the store. Now it was the fun part where I shredded Mozzarella cheese, sliced up onions (started tearing up). From there I started to roll the dough with a rolling pin till it was ready to be put on the pizza pan. This was the most fun part of the process. Once it was in the pan I got a fork and started poking holes in the dough so it cooked properly. After this, I put the pizza sauce on the pizza dough and spread it evenly, put the cheese, pepperoni slices, and onions on the pizza. From here I threw the pizza in the oven and let it bake. The only thing left to do is eat the pizza.
Results
I can’t complain too much with how this meal turned out. The youtube video I got this recipe from was extremely easy to follow along with as well. I don’t know if I will ever make pizza dough by scratch again because I feel it just is more work than is needed, but I’m still glad I learned how to make pizza dough. For this one time cooking it would probably be less expensive if I just ordered a pizza but when I can use the ingredients I bought for other meals it is less expensive. I still prefer the taste of Dominos but overall it still was decent to eat.