4th night of the 9 days - Thursday night is Pizza Night!

Every Thursday night in my home is known as Pizza night.  It started off as a take out Pizza night to make life easier for me with Shabbos cooking coming up etc... How it ended up being homemade Pizza Night I will never know! But somehow my kids managed to convince me that this recipe is better than the take out pizza... Now any mother knows that a compliment like that is rare with kids in the kitchen! So somehow its become a Thursday night regular...

This recipe I learned back in High School (thanks Miri!).  Its so simple and so good. Sometimes I get my kids to make the dough and then I just make the sauce (get them to grate the cheese!!!) and wallah in the oven it goes!

Pizza Recipe

Ingredients:

Dough:

3 cups flour

1 pkt instant yeast (10grams)

1/2 tsp salt

1 Tbls sugar

1 1/4 cups warm water

Method:

You can knead this dough by hand or with an electric mixer. 

1.  In a large bowl dissolve yeast water and sugar.  Allow to rest for a few minutes until it starts to bubble.

2.   Stir in 1 cup of flour, add the salt, mix some more and then the rest of the flour.

3. Mix until all the ingredients are just combined and stop.  Dont kneed.  

4.  Cover the dough and allow to rest for 10 minutes.

5.  After 10 minutes, kneed the dough for 5 minutes.  

6.  Cover the dough with a layer of oil and place in a well greased bowl.  Cover and allow to rise for about 1 hour.

7.  Divide the dough into 2 balls or leave to make one large pizza (in the picture bellow I doubled the recipe)

Pizza Sauce Recipe:

Ingredients:

1 pepper diced into little pieces

1 small onion chopped

1 tin chopped peeled tomatoes (or 4-6 fresh tomatoes chopped)

1 tsp origano

1 tsp paprika

1/2 tsp crushed garlic

1 tsp salt

2 tbls oil

Olives (optional)

Method:

1.  In a pan, heat up the oil.

2.  Add peppers and onions and fry till start turning golden.

3.  Add the spices (and olives) and mix.

4.  Add Tomatoes and mix. (if using fresh tomatoes, you might want to add 1/2 cup of water- use your discrepancy)

5.  Lower heat and cook for about 20 minutes. 

Spread the Pizza Sauce on Dough and add cheese.  Bake in preheated oven of 180C (360F) for about 25 minutes...

Serve Immediately...

Enjoy!

Orit

XXX

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