Pizza

In a bowl put all the ingredients of the dough: flour, water, yeast, oil and salt and mix well with a spoon. A pizza dough is like a simple bread. It can be made with any type of flour and the amount of water will be about half the amount of flour. If we use a flour with more gluten (flour strength) then we need some more water and if we use a normal flour (like today) with half the water (per flour) and a little more will suffice.

Then we will knead. If we have a great kneader because we do not have to do much. If we do not have the only thing we will do is stretch the dough and collect with the palm of the hand to get a dough that does not stick to the hands or the table, is a fine and elastic dough. Between 5 and 10 minutes will be more than enough. It is not necessary to flour the table.

Then let the covered dough ferment. The objective is to double the volume. And when does this happen? The answer is simple, if it is cold it will take longer than if it is hot. On the contrary, if it is hot, it will take less time. The better the dough the longer the better because the dough develops in a different way, but with our pizza without complications we don't care. We leave it and when it doubles we'll go on to the next step.

Now that our dough has grown enough we can continue. We take the dough and degas it, that is to say we knead it lightly so that it returns to its initial volume. We can divide it to make small pizzas or make a big one. To stretch it without complications we stretch it with the hands as we can or with a roller, the form is the least, if it goes square ahead if you get a great round mass. We will put the ingredients, first the tomato, then the cheese and the rest of things that we want to add.

The last step is that of the oven, and is not the least important. With the oven preheated to a minimum of 230 ºC we put the pizza. We can use a stone for the oven or a tray. If we have stone the base of the pizza will be crunchier but we do not have to complicate the life, they are very rich in any tray that you have.

Bake for about 8-10 minutes, until lightly browned.