Woodfire Style Pizza Dough and Pizza Sauce
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2 hours 10 minutes
If you love crispy, woodfire style pizzas, this recipe and cooking technique will give it to you. This dough recipe should make enough for 6 - 8 small pizzas. I use a clean terracotta plant base to cook my pizza on. Dough and sauce can be frozen for use at a later date.
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Ingredients
Serves: 8
- Dough
- 400g bread flour
- 100g fine ground semolina flour
- 1/2 Tablespoon fine sea salt
- 1 (7g) sachet of dried yeast
- 1 tablespoon caster sugar sugar
- approx 325 ml lukewarm water
- your choice of pizza toppings, for example: fresh mozzarella, grated pecorino cheese, basil, anchovies, olives, red capsicums, mushrooms, pepperoni, ham etc
- Sauce
- 2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 3 finely chopped cloves garlic
- 5 anchovy fillets, finely chopped
- 1 (400g) tin of diced tomatoes
- 2 Tablespoons tomato paste
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 bay leaf
Directions
Preparation:40min ›
Cook:1hour15min ›
Extra time:15min ›
Ready in:2hours10min
- Pour the olive oil into a cold fry pan and slowly heat garlic through until fragrant on medium heat.
- Place chopped anchovies into the oil and stir to dissolve. They are essential to get the perfect depth of flavour. Pour the diced, tinned tomatoes into the fry pan and stir through. Pour in tomato paste, salt, pepper, sugar and bay leaf, and stir through.
- Bring contents of frying pan up to a simmer, cover then cook on low heat for at least 1 hour. The longer it cooks, the better it will taste. Add a touch of water if sauce begins to thicken too much. Allow to cool to room temperature before using on your pizzas.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine bread flour, semolina and salt. Make a well in the centre. Add yeast and sugar to the warm water, mix with a fork and leave until it becomes frothy. Pour yeast and water mixture into the well. With a fork, stir in circular motion to slowly incorporate flour with yeast mixture. Continue until it becomes too hard to continue with a fork.
- Pour your dough mixture out onto a floured bench top, and knead with hands. Knead for 10 minutes until dough feels elastic, yet smooth and soft. Dust dough with flour and place in bowl, covering with plastic wrap. Leave dough to rest for 15 mins at room temperature.
- Divide the dough into as many balls as you want bases. This recipe should make enough for 6 - 8 small pizzas. Sprinkle work surface with flour or finely ground semolina, and roll out each ball to a thin base.
- Ensure all your pizza toppings are prepared and sliced the way you like them when you are ready to assemble.
- Place terracotta tile or pizza stone on the lowest rack in your cold oven, then turn oven up to 250°C. It is extremely important that the terracotta tile be piping hot to get the perfect result.
- When you have assembled and are ready to cook your pizza, remove your piping hot terracotta tile from the oven, place pizza base on top. It will begin to cook instantly and crisp up, and it will not stick (do not add oil to your terracotta tile).
- Quickly return your completed pizza to the hot oven, ensuring it is on the lowest rack, and cook for 7 - 10 minutes until golden brown.
Sauce
Dough
Preparing the pizza stone
Use either a professional pizza stone, or even better - a large, clean terracotta pot plant base! This should be cleaned simply with a steel wool and water - no detergent, as it will soak into the terracotta, and you don't want soapy pizza! Leave to air-dry.
