Bro's Pizza Recipe

S'sK Pizza Crust Recipe for Bro, no butter. 

Family Size

1 3/4 cups water
1 1/2 tablespoon sugar
1 1/2 tablespoon yeast
3 teaspoon salt
3/4 canola oil
6 + more cups bread flour (depends on humidity in the air and exact water measurements.)

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Enough dough for 2 medium thick pizzas.

Ingredients:

1 ¼ cups lukewarm water

1 tablespoon sugar

3 teaspoons bread machine yeast

2 teaspoons salt

1/2 cup canola oil 

4 cups bread flour

 

Bonus items:

Parchment paper

Instructions:

1.       Add cold water to microwave safe bowl. Microwave water for about 1 minute until warm. Add water to a large bowl. (Water should be warmer than lukewarm, but not hot enough to burn you.)

2.       Add sugar and yeast to water and stir with a fork to dissolve.

3.       Cover yeast bowl with plastic wrap and let yeast bowl sit in a nested bowl or Tupperware container with hot water.

a.       To make a nested bowl with hot water:

                                                   i.      I use a large Tupperware container and fill it about half way up with hot water.

                                                 ii.      Nest the yeast bowl in the Tupperware container.

                                                iii.      Water should be hot, but not hot enough to burn you.

                                               iv.      (Remove yeast bowl from nested bath when kneading)

b.      Let yeast sit in nested bath for 10 minutes. You will notice that your yeast water has become very thick, bubbly, and frothy. This is perfect. Remove bowl from nested bath and remove plastic wrap top.

c.       If your bowl is not frothy, try again. There are many factors that could affect this. Most likely your yeast died. Either your initial water was too hot and it killed your yeast, or your environment was too cold so the yeast did not wake up and begin feeding. Another possibility is that your yeast was dead to begin with. Make sure you use fresh yeast that has been stored properly - as yeast does go bad.

4.       Add salt, and canola oil to yeast water. Whisk with fork until well mixed.

5.       Add bread flour slowly. Mix with fork until difficult to mix. Knead dough with hands for a couple minutes until dough has absorbed all flour.

a.       Don’t add too much flour that the dough cannot absorb it all and leaves dusty traces. If this happens, add a little water until the dough absorbs the flour.

b.      The dough should be slightly sticky to the touch, not dried out, or too wet.

6.       Cover bowl with plastic wrap.

7.       Let sit on counter in a nested bowl with hot water (just like before) for 1 hour.

8.       Check on water in nested bowl after 1 hour. It will probably be cold.

9.       Remove dough bowl from nested bowl.

10.   Knead dough for 2 minutes and cover bowl with plastic wrap.

11.   Refill water bowl with hot water and nest bowls again.

12.   Let rise for an additional hour.

13.   Remove dough bowl from nested bowl.

14.   Empty water bowl.

15.   Remove plastic wrap from dough bowl.

16.   Separate dough into 4 balls of equal size.

a.       If only making a couple pizzas today, store any unused dough in an air-tight container in the refrigerator.

17.   Flatten dough with a rolling pin.

18.   Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

19. Add rolled pizza crust to parchment paper lined baking sheet.

20. Add your favorite sauce and toppings to pizza.

21. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

22.    Put pizza in the middle rack of the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes until pizza dough is firm. Cheese should be slightly browned. Watch pizza very closely so it does not burn!
    a.    Don't put oven on broil mode!
    b.    Check firmness of crust by carefully poking it with a fork. Crust should be firm and slightly springy. Unless you want crisp crunchy crust, then leave it in a little longer.