Last night I tried Baking Mad’s “how to make pizza dough” recipe, my first attempt at making my own pizza completely from scratch. The results were promising with any imperfections having more to do with my own general inadequacies in the kitchen and an inability to figure out the intricacies of my confounded oven than with the recipe itself.
In retrospect (and to keep in mind for next time), I probably would have added a little more salt and a little less sugar than suggested. That’s just my personal preference though. Other than that, I really liked giving this recipe a spin. It was quite easy to follow. Cheap too. Minus what I put on top of the base, the recipe only called for four very basic ingredients (strong white bread flour, salt, yeast, unrefined golden caster sugar and warm water).
Maybe I’m being hard on myself. I mean, my girlfriend and I stuffed our faces (I wasn’t even hungry) with my creation. I made one small pizza from the dough and after wolfing that one down, I immediately went on to make another – which was much better crust-wise than my first attempt.
The best thing about giving this recipe a go was that I could see how next time I follow it my pizzas will be a whole lot closer to perfecto. Essentially, I needed to kneed a little more. I’ll make the effort to get some better mozzarella than what I had in stowed in my fridge as well.
I must say the sauce I made was rocking. Sorry, I won’t be sharing that house recipe, but here’s a link to the Baking Mad pizza dough recipe I used:
http://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/dairyfree/pizza-dough
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