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Try this recipe for no-knead pizza dough, then check out our margherita pizza, pepperoni pizza, spicy sausage pizza and more impressive pizza recipes. Or take your pizza-making skills to the next level with our pizza sauce.

Ingredients

  • ¼ tsp  active dried yeast
  • ½ tsp golden caster sugar
  • 500g plain flour, plus more for dusting
  • 1 tsp salt
  • for the tray semolina

TOPPING

  • 1 clove garlic, sliced
  • olive oil
  • 400g tin tinned cherry tomatoes
  • 6 spicy Italian sausages
  • ½ tsp fennel seeds, toasted and crushed
  • 1 large ball burrata
  • to finish basil leaves

Method

  • STEP 1

    Mix the yeast with 400ml warm water and the sugar, stir and leave for 5 minutes. Put the flour and salt in a bowl. Gradually mix in the liquid and form a claggy, rough dough (there’s no need to knead). Cover with clingfilm and leave in a coolish spot in the kitchen overnight (but not in the fridge).

  • STEP 2

    To make the pizza sauce, sizzle the garlic in 2 tbsp olive oil then tip in the tomatoes. Simmer for 12-15 minutes until the sauce is thick, then leave to cool.

  • STEP 3

    The next day, tip the dough out on to a floured surface. It will be very sticky and bubbly. Bring together in a rough lump by adding a little extra flour – remembering the less flour you add, the puffier the dough will be. Divide into 2 and drop onto 2 baking trays which have been lightly dusted with semolina. Push and stretch into 2 rough pizza shapes with your floured hands (you won’t be able to roll it).

  • STEP 4

    Skin the sausages then mix the meat with the fennel seeds. Roll into little meatballs (about 20).

  • STEP 5

    Heat the oven to 240C/fan 220C/gas 9. Spread a thin layer of sauce over each pizza – not too much otherwise it’ll be soggy (you can freeze the rest to use another time). Drop the meatballs all over, spaced evenly. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes until puffed and golden. To finish, tear over the burrata and scatter with fresh basil leaves and seasoning to serve.

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Janine Ratcliffe Portrait
Janine RatcliffeFood director
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