It Takes a Village Pizza / Kelli’s Kitchen
Easy Pizza Sauce
Ingredients for Sauce:
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup onion, grated
1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
1/4 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil
I melted the butter and grated the onion (draining all the onion water off), a little garlic and all the other ingredients. I let it cook some and then I used an immersion blender to break up the diced tomatoes. Once it cooked down (about 20 minutes) it was ready to use!
Then I tackled the pizza dough. I have never ever opened a package of yeast before but I was determined yesterday.
Easy Pizza Dough
Ingredients:
¾ Cup hot water (105F)
2 ½ Tablespoons (or one envelop) of Pizza dough yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
1 1/3 Cups bread flour
2/3 cup semolina flour
¾ teaspoon table salt
3 Tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon garlic powder (optional)
1 Tablespoon dried oregano (optional)
Cornmeal for sprinkling on pizza pan
I put the yeast, warm water, and sugar into a measuring cup and then I totally stared at it for 5 minutes.
Then I put the yeast and olive oil into the flour mixture and mixed using a wooden spoon. Then I really got nervous because I had to knead the dough she said. What the heck does the word “knead” really mean anyway?!?! So, I plopped it out there and went to town and you know what? It ended up looking just like hers!
I put a little olive oil into a bowl (I had also been preheating the oven to 175 F) and when it beeped that it was up to temp, I turned it off. I put the dough in the bowl and covered with a damp tea towel and put it in the oven for an hour. When it came out – Yay!
I put it on my pizza pan and started smushing it out to the side and it ended up like this:
We go light on the sauce so I only put about ¼ Cup on and spread it out:
I put 1 lb of browned and drained hamburger all around and sprinkled jalapeño peppers throughout:
Sprinkled 2 Cups of mozzerela cheese over that. Put it into a 425F preheated oven and cooked it for 20 minutes. When it was done – I pulled it out and it looked like this!
I ate 1 piece and Mr. Picky eater ate 3. Today, we had leftovers and it looked just as good as it did last night, don’t you think? P.S. – I froze the rest of the pizza sauce for 4 other pizza I will definitely be making!
Mmmm I want to eat this pizza my friend. Right now. 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thank you CCU! Did you see the Australian Tea-Towel on my FB page? When I bought it, I thought of you!
The pizza looks delicious. I’ll have to try this recipe for the crust – I have yet to find the exact one I want. I have a feeling that now that you have worked with yeast, there will be no stopping you.
Lillian
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I was just thinking this morning: What can I make today with that other envelope of yeast I have? Yep, you are right – and you should really try this recipe because we really enjoyed it – you may try it with semolina flour as the recipe calls for. I just didn’t have any.
I wish I was your neighbor so I could come over to YOUR house for dinner!
You sure could – any time!
Yum! You make me want pizza! I’ve never made my own dough, but I have made yeast bread before. You made it look super easy. I’ll have to attempt it next week 😀
It sure was good!
I love it! Global pizza! 🙂
🙂
Homemade pizza sauce is awesome and for not ever having opened a package of yeast, your pizza dough looks stellar! Cudos! (Love use some homemade pizza!!!!)
Thank you! I was pretty surprised it turned out so well!
Hi Kelli! I am so glad you went ahead and posted this, since I wasn’t able to respond because, yes…I was having a baby! 🙂 Claire was born last Friday November 9th, and we are all doing well! just catching up on emails now.
I am so glad you loved the pizza sauce, and great job on the homemade dough. It all looks delicious!! Hope you are well.
This pizza is seriously making me hungry and love the premise! Thanks for sharing on Thursdays Treasures
Thank YOU! I really enjoyed it!
I love homemade pizza, yours looks so good! =)
Im following you from “Weekend Potluck” @ The Better Baker.
Have a great day!
Thank you! I love The Better Baker (Marsha)! So glad you dropped by – I’ll be stopping by to check out your blog too!
I love that this was a “collaborative” pizza effort! 🙂 And now I’m craving pizza…
Love this, Kelli! Pizza is one of our favorite things to make at home too. Well done for mastering yeast dough. The sky is the limit now!
I keep trying!