Ask Wolfgang Puck & # 039; Pizza dough at home

Preparation

In a small bowl, dissolve yeast and honey in 1/4 cup of hot water. In a mixer fitted with a dough hook, add the flour and salt. Add the oil, yeast mixture and remaining 3/4 cup water and mix on low speed until the dough is cleaned from sides of bowl and groups around the dough hook, about 5 minutes.

(The dough can also be done in a food processor. The yeast as above.

Flour and salt into the bowl fitted a food processor with the steel blade. Pulse once or twice, the remaining ingredients and process until the dough begins to form a ball.)

Put the dough on a clean work surface and hand knead 2 or 3 minutes. The dough should be smooth and firm. The dough with a clean, damp cloth and let rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes. (When you are finished, the dough is stretched and pulled slightly.)

Place a pizza stone on the middle rack of the oven and preheat the oven to 500 degrees F. Divide the dough into 4 balls, about 6 ounces per. Work pulls every ball and stuffed the pages below the bottom of the ball. Repeat four or five times. Then in a smooth, unfloured, you roll the ball under the palm of the hand to the top of the dough is smooth and firm, about 1 minute. The dough with a damp cloth and let stand for 15-20 minutes. At this point, the balls can be wrapped in plastic film and stored for up to two days in the refrigerator.

To prepare each pizza, the dough ball dip in flour, shaking off excess flour, the dough on a clean, lightly floured and start to stretch the dough surface. Press the center, spreading the dough into an 8-inch circle with the external border a little thicker than the inner circle. If you find this hard to do, use a small rolling pin roll out the dough. Lightly brush the inner circle of dough with oil and place the ingredients of your choice in the inner circle.

The use of the skin of a Plate Plate baker or rimless baking sheet lightly floured, slide the pizza stone and bake until the pizza crust golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Remember that the oven is very hot and be careful when you put the pizza in and out of the oven. Transferring cut the pizza on a firm ground and with a pizza cutter or sharp knife into slices. Serve immediately.