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Pizza

Many thanks to the late Ted Sturtevant for this recipe.

Ingredients

  • Flour
  • Salt
  • Granulated sugar
  • Olive oil
  • Yeast packets
  • Pomi strained tomatoes
  • Onion
  • Garlic
  • Italian seasonings
  • Oregano
  • Low moisture cheese
  • Honey

Cooking utensils

  • Pizza stone
  • Measuring cup
  • Two large bowls
  • Pastry mat
  • Rolling pin
  • Pizza peel
  • Whisk
  • Measuring spoons

Dough

  1. In separate cup, mix ¾ cup warm water with yeast packet and 1 tsp sugar
  2. Add following ingredients to bowl and mix well
    • 2.5 cups flour
    • 1 tsp salt
    • 1 tsp granulated sugar
    • 1 Tbsp olive oil
    • 1 tsp honey
  3. After 5 minutes, add ¼ cup warm water to yeast
  4. Add water/yeast mixture to mixing bowl
  5. Mix well, kneed dough
  6. Cut dough in half, put in separate bowls
  7. Spread olive oil over dough
  8. Cover and let rise. Turn over and push down once

Sauce

  1. Chop ½ onion into fine pieces, sauté in 2 Tbsp of olive oil on medium heat. Do this slowly, make onions sweat.
  2. Chop 1 clove of garlic, add to onions and turn heat to low
  3. After 3 minutes, remove from heat and remove onions / garlic from oil
  4. Add following ingredients to pot
    • 1 box (3 cups) Pomi Strained Tomatoes
    • ¾ cup water
    • 1 tsp salt
    • 3 tsp granulated sugar
    • ½ tsp oregano + italian seasonings
    • Onion / garlic mixture
  5. Leave on low for 2 to 4 hours, stir occasionally

Pizza

  1. Put stone in oven, heat to 450°
  2. GET ALL INGREDIENTS & TOPPINGS READY
  3. Put flour on pizza peel and pastry mat
  4. Stretch pizza
  5. Put pizza on peel
  6. Add sauce, low moisture cheese, and toppings. Don’t get sauce on the peel, or the pizza will stick to it
  7. Put pizza in oven for 10 – 12 minutes, turn after 6 minutes

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