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A trouble-free recipe for cheese and tomato pizza. To begin with we provide you with a recipe for making the dough - an important characteristic of the total dish. After that, we give you a recipe for the sauce

For your pizza dough you will need:

• Salt 1tsp
• Warm water 120ml
• Olive oil 1tsp
• 225g - white flour
• Yeast 1tsp
• 1/2tsp - sugar

For the pizza topping you will need:

• 125g - Buffalo mozzarella cheese
• 4tbsp - Tomato Sauce
• 1tsp - Oregano Died
• salt and pepper to taste

To Make The Pizza Dough:

1) Add salt, flour together and blend yeast and sugar. Combine and cread a dough with a central space for adding oil and water.

2) Adding the oil and water, blend together with your hands.
Add more flour and water if necessary.

3) Continue this motion for about three minutes or until the mix is one ball and the bowl is comparatively clean.

4) Knead the dough on a dry floury surface until it has a smooth and stretchy texture.

5) Now you leave the dough to rise, an hour should be something like enough time. For best results lightly oil a bowl and also the surface of your dough, wrap it in a clean dry cloth and leave in the bowl.

6) The dough will rise to something like double its original size.

7) Spend a further minute or two kneading the dough.

Stretch out the dough in the shape of a circle. Decide the desired thickness of the pizza base.

Place your dough on a non-stick baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees Celcius. Spread the tomato sauce evenly over the pizza base. Now scatter your mozzarella around your pizza evenly and sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano. Add a drizzle of olive oil. Place on the top shelf of your oven and cook for roughly fifteen minutes, or until the cheese has melted and the base is firm. If required add your own choice of extra toppings. Remember to ensure any meat used has been previously cooked. Then return to your oven for a further 4-7 minutes.

Feel free to add ingredients to the topping, e.g. meat, vegetables or fish.

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