Homemade pizza is awesome and I can only recommend everyone to try it for themselves. Per pizza, you’ll need:

  • 125g wheat flour
  • 5g fresh yeast
  • 50ml water
  • 1 tablespoon of olive oil
  • Salt

Put the lukewarm water into a bowl and dissolve the yeast in it. Add a bit of salt and the olive oil. Then add the flour bit by bit until the dough gets firm and somewhat dry. Take it out of the bowl and knead it for around 10 minutes. Do not skip this part! It is important in order for the gluten to “glue” the dough together. It’ll get a nice texture and should look something like this. Be generous with the flour if the consistency won’t match up.

Roll the dough into a long sausage and divide it in as many pieces as you want to have pizzas. Roll them up into small balls nicely and put them on a baking tray with some baking paper underneath and cover them with a damp cloth and let them sit for an hour. Put some loose flour on them to avoid the dough sticking to the cloth.

In the meantime, I usually prepare the tomato sauce:

  • 1 can of shredded tomatoes
  • 1 can of tomato paste
  • 1 or 2 cloves of garlic
  • 1 medium-sized onion
  • Olive oil
  • Again salt

Chop the onion and the garlic fine and put them into the hot olive oil. Let them sit there for two minutes, then add the tomato paste and stir well. After a couple of minutes, add the shredded tomatoes and leave the sauce simmering without a lid so that it gets thick.

Preheat the oven to 220°C. Put a griddle on the lowest level and let it preheat, too. That’ll make the pizza really nice and crispy in the bottom.

Take out the dough balls. They should have doubled in size. Put some flour on a working surface and also cover the dough balls in flour nicely. Because you already made nice round dough balls, it is now easy to turn them into a nice and round pizza, each; use a rolling pin! When rolled out, put them on a sheet of baking paper and add as much sauce as you like. Also add cheese (I prefer mozarella) and whatever vegetables or sausages you like. I myself like them as pure as possible.

Put the pizza on the griddle and bake until the dough is crispy. When done, take the pizza out and add some rucola salad and parmesan cheese to each slice.