Basic Pizza

Preparation info
  • Makes

    5 x 12

    cm pizzas
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Neil Perry

Published 1998

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Ingredients

Pizza Base

  • 1.5 kg plain flour, sifted
  • 2 tablespoons sea salt
  • 3

Method

To make the Pizza Base, combine the salt with flour. (This helps to dilute the salt as yeast hates it.) Mix the honey and water together and warm to blood temperature. Add the yeast, crumbling it with your fingers. Don’t overheat the water or the yeast will die.

Tip the flour and salt into a bowl and make a well in the centre. When the yeast is foaming, after about 10 minutes, add the w