Homemade basic cheese pizza.

Yeah, it’s a pizza day.

Who doesn’t love pizza?   Especially, kids. This pizza is our kid’s favourite one.  Very easy to make. You can add any other toppings you want.

A simple recipe for yummy cheese pizza. All pizza dough recipes are different, however, they typically all have the same ingredients: flour, yeast, salt, sugar, oil, and water. Homemade pizza crust may sound difficult to you. Why waste time when you can buy frozen? But trust me homemade crust is nothing like store-bought, delivery, or what you order at a restaurant.

Good luck and enjoy 😉

Homemade pizza, the homemade crust is the best.

Ingredients:

Pizza dough:

• 3/4 cup warm water
• 1  1/2 tsp active dry yeast
• 2 tbsp sugar
• pinch of salt
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 2 cups unbleached flour

Pizza:

• 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
• cornmeal, for dusting
• 2-3 Tablespoons (10-15g) grated Parmesan cheese
• 1/2 – 3/4 cup (127-190g) pizza sauce, depending on how much you like (homemade or store-bought)
• ground basil, to taste
• 1 tbsp olive oil

Directions:

1. In a large mixing bowl or the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with a hook attachment combine the yeast and warm water. Stir well until yeast is foamy and dissolved.  Add flour, 1 tbsp olive oil, salt, and sugar. Mix well until combined about 1-2 minutes. Stand mixer with a dough hook. Having this is ideal for my pizza crust, but you don’t need it. You may simply knead the dough by hand instead.
2. Now knead the flour mixture for about 3-5 minutes. If the dough is too wet you can add some flour. Poke it with your finger if it slowly bounces back your dough is ready.  Put the dough into the large mixing bowl that has been coated with olive oil. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and allow to rise in warm room temperature for about 1 hour.
3. Depending on your type of yeast your dough will have doubled in size about an hour to an hour and a half. You can freeze the dough.
4. Preheat the oven to 400F degrees.  Allow to heat. Grease and dust your baking sheet with cooking spray or olive oil. Sprinkle with cornmeal.  Prepare your cheese, sauce. Flatten into round circle your dough on your cornmeal lined pizza pan.  To prevent the filling from making your pizza crust soggy, brush the top lightly with olive oil.  Let rest for 15 minutes before topping. Cornmeal. Not all pizza dough recipes use cornmeal to dust the pan, but I prefer it.  The main reason you sprinkle cornmeal onto the bottom of your pizza pan is so that the pizza won’t stick to the bottom of the pan. It gives the pizza crust a little flavour and crispy texture as well. You could just regular flour to dust the pan, but you’ll lose the flavour cornmeal provides.
5. Spread sauce in an even layer over crust, leaving a 1/4-inch border. Top with mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses then sprinkle with basil bake on the middle rack about 12-15 minutes until crust is golden brown and cheese melts.  That is it.

Enjoy 😉