Italian pizza is associated with thin crunchy dough, the taste of cherry tomatoes or olives, grated cheese, onions and herbs. Pizza is a traditional Italian dish. It quickly became popular in Europe and in Russia. So what is it, real Italian pizza? Read about it in our selection.

Baking Dough Options

Italian pizza has several cooking options. Different housewives will never cook the same dish, it will certainly be different.

The only thing that unites Italian pizzas is the lack of eggs and milk.

How to make yeast-free dough for Italian pizza

Would need:

  • a couple of glasses of well-sifted flour;
  • half a glass of boiled water;
  • 4 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil;
  • teaspoon of sea salt.

For airiness of the test it is allowed to add a little baking powder into it.

Execution Technology:

  1. Mix flour and sea salt (if necessary - baking powder). Kneading takes effort. The process can take up to 25 minutes.
  2. Make a ball out of the dough, after stretching to the desired width.

This recipe is considered the fastest. Mixing is recommended only by hand, without using a rolling pin, then the dough will turn out easy.

How to make yeast dough for real Italian pizza

In the homeland of Italian pizza, exclusively natural yeast is used.

 

You will need:

  • 1 kg of flour;
  • half a liter of warm water;
  • salt - 20 g;
  • up to 7 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil;
  • 10-12 g of dry yeast.

Sugar can be added to the recipe if desired.

Preparation of the test:

  1. Dissolve yeast in 200 ml of warm water.
  2. In another container, stir the salt until completely dissolved.
  3. Sift flour into a larger container. Make a recess in the center of a small size for introducing yeast, salt water, oil.
  4. Mix the mass manually until the moment when it ceases to stick to the hands.
  5. Put the dough in a dry, warm place, covering it with a cloth base.
  6. Knead the risen dough again, divide into 4 equal parts.

For those who like voluminous, dense dough - this recipe should be to your taste.

Basic Italian Pizza Recipe

The following is a basic recipe that will require a food composition to complete:

  • flour - 200 g;
  • a third of a glass of water;
  • half a teaspoon of salt, sugar;
  • yeast - teaspoon;
  • olive oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Cooking Instructions:

  1. Salt, yeast, sugar is added to the container with sifted flour.
  2. Add warm water to the mixture little by little.
  3. In the process, mix the contents. The dough is medium density.
  4. Adding another spoonful of oil - mix the resulting mass well again.
  5. Put the resulting dough into a container greased with oil. Lubricate with oil on top, and wrapped, put in a warm place for 1.5 hours. The volume should double.
  6. Roll out the rising mass to 3 mm in thickness.
  7. Grease a baking sheet with olive oil, spread the dough.

The proposed option is quite simple and does not take much time. Use your favorite foods for the filling. It is necessary to make sauce, pasta and, of course, spices.

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Seafood stuffed

This pizza option will especially appeal to seafood lovers.

 

Products required:

  • a pound of flour;
  • half a teaspoon of salt;
  • 3 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil;
  • 1.5 cups of water;
  • teaspoon of yeast;
  • a pound of seafood;
  • bulb;
  • 300 g of sun-dried tomatoes;
  • 300 g of cheese (hard varieties);
  • 150 g of olives.

Technology:

  1. Mix flour, salt, a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a deep cup. Form a cake, pouring a ready-made dough of yeast, in a small amount. Shake out the dough when it becomes dense enough, continuing to knead it already on the working surface of the table.
  2. When the dough gains elasticity, it will no longer stick to the palms, form a ball out of it, and coat with butter, wrapping with cling film. Put a quarter of an hour to the side to lie down.
  3. Cut the peeled onion into thin half rings. Lightly fry.
  4. Mash the tomatoes and add to the onion. Put out a few minutes. The sauce should cool.
  5. Open the seafood bag, chop into small pieces.
  6. Divide the dough into halves of the same size. At the same time, it is worth preparing the oven by turning it on at 195 ° C.
  7. Roll the dough thinly, add the sauce on top, then seafood. At the end - pour grated cheese on top. The baking time is 15-20 minutes.

Seafood pizza is a great option for diet food.

"Spoil" with mozzarella

For the recipe you will need:

  • a couple of glasses of flour;
  • yeast -1 tsp;
  • half of Art. tablespoons of sugar;
  • a couple of spoons of hot water;
  • 150 ml of water;
  • olive oil;
  • salt;
  • Mozzarella cheese - 200 g;
  • 2 tomatoes;
  • basil, onion (you can - leek or onion), oregano.

The ingredients are based on a pair of medium-sized pizzas (30 cm in diameter).

How to cook:

  1. To get malleable dough, yeast is soaked in hot water. Observe strictly proportions. To speed up the process, you can add a little sugar.
  2. In parallel, mix flour, water, sugar, salt.
  3. Make a dough by removing the dough in a warm place.
  4. Divide the risen dough in half. In case of several small pizzas - into 4 parts.
  5. Knead the dough exclusively with your hands, give the shape of a circle.
  6. Prepare the filling: chop the tomatoes in circles, chop the onion finely, and the cheese into cubes.
  7. Grease the dough with butter, put the filling, sprinkle with herbs. The final touch is mozzarella. Bake for 15 minutes.

You can experiment with this recipe by replacing Mozzarella cheese with a different grade. As a result, the taste changes.

Classic pizza Margherita

This is the best known option.Consider the classic Margarita pizza recipe.

 

It will be required:

For the test:

  • flour - 300 g;
  • teaspoon of salt, "fast" yeast;
  • Art. a spoonful of olive oil;
  • glass of water.

Sauce:

  • tomato paste - 100 ml;
  • basil bunch;
  • chopped garlic - 1 clove.

Filling:

  • Mozzarella cheese (another variety can be used) - 250 g;
  • tomatoes (preferably cherry), cut into two parts.

Technology:

  1. To create the basis, combine the flour with yeast, salt. Pour in water, oil. Mix everything thoroughly.
  2. Transfer the dough onto special baking paper sprinkled with flour. Continue kneading for 5 minutes.
  3. Cover with a lid or towel, setting aside.
  4. For the sauce, combine the tomato paste with basil and garlic.
  5. Roll out the dough to about 25 cm in diameter. It should be thin, then it will rise faster when baking.
  6. The oven should be heated to 240 degrees.
  7. Put the dough on a baking sheet, grease the sauce with the surface, add cheese and chopped tomatoes on top.
  8. Sprinkle a little oil, bake for 10 minutes.

Pizza Margherita will have to go to any table. No need to go to a restaurant, pizzeria, do it yourself.

Traditional recipe with mushrooms and pepperoni

 

To prepare, you will need:

  • 2 tbsp. flour;
  • mushrooms cut into thin slices;
  • pepperoni - 70-80 g;
  • 2 teaspoons of yeast;
  • 100 g of grated mozzarella cheese;
  • 2 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil;
  • grated tomato;
  • 2 teaspoons tomato paste;
  • salt - a teaspoon;
  • sugar - a couple of teaspoons.

Technology:

  1. For the test, you need to combine the flour with yeast, sugar and table salt.
  2. Add warm water a little, start kneading the dough.
  3. Add oil at the end, put the container with the dough in a warm place for an hour.
  4. When the dough rises, thinly roll it on a baking sheet.
  5. Combine the paste with grated tomato, small pieces of salami and pre-fried mushroom slices, add a little aromatic basil. Sprinkle grated cheese on top of the dish. Bake for about half an hour at 200 degrees.

Real Italian pizza with mushrooms and pepperoni is ready.

Making real Italian pizza is not at all difficult: the minimum number of ingredients, the ability to experiment with the composition of the dish - all this makes the cooking process interesting and exciting, and the result exceeds all expectations.

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