Pizza sauce
Homemade pizzas make great family dinners and are easy to throw together. Here is our favourite tomato pizza sauce, flavoured with basil and oregano, ideal for slathering over doughy bases
Pizza dough
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- plus proving
- Easy
- Makes 2 x 26cm pizzas
Skip to ingredients
- 250g strong white bread flour
- 1 tsp (from a sachet) fast-action yeast
- 1 tsp sugar
- 5 tbsp olive oil
Method
step 1
Put the flour, yeast and 1 tsp of sea salt in a bowl. Measure out 125ml warm water then stir in the sugar and 2 tbsp olive oil. Add to the flour, mixing until it forms a dough. Tip onto a lightly oiled work-surface and knead for 10 minutes until smooth.
step 2
Put in a clean, lightly oiled bowl, cover and leave to prove somewhere warm for 1 hour.
step 3
Knock the dough back and divide into 2. Roll and gently pull each piece out into a thin 28cm pizza on a sheet of baking paper.
step 4
Heat the oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Put 2 heavy baking sheets on shelves near the top of the oven and leave them to heat for at least 10 minutes.
step 5
To finish the pizzas, spread 2-3 tbsp of prepared tomato sauce over each then add toppings and mozzarella. Lift the baking paper with the topped pizzas onto the baking trays. Cook for 8-10 minutes until the base is crisp and top bubbling.
