As the months get cooler, we unpack our smoker and pizza oven (OzPig) to spend the evening making pizza for the week and enjoying a toasted marshmallow over the fire. The basic recipe below is what we follow to make about 6 x 10″ pizzas. It would be possible to make them slightly larger by rolling it thinner or make more by cutting the dough smaller.
Equipment
- 1 Oven Preheated to 50 degrees
- 1 Large Pyrex bowl
- 1 Scales
- 1 Measuring spoon set
- 1 Pizza stone
- 1 Pizza oven (OzPig)
Materials
- 600 grams Plain Flour
- 6 grams Yeast
- 2.5 tsp Garlic Salt
- 4 tsp White Sugar
- 4 tbsp Olive Oil Extra Virgin, or flavoured with garlic
- 330 ml Tap water warm
Instructions
Making the dough
- Pre heat the oven to 50 degrees.
- Mix all the dry ingredients together.600 grams Plain Flour, 6 grams Yeast, 2.5 tsp Garlic Salt, 4 tsp White Sugar
- Mix the warm water and the olive oil together.4 tbsp Olive Oil, 330 ml Tap water
- Slowly add the water and oil mix to the dry ingredients.
- Turn the oven off (it only needs to be warm enough to help proof the dough).
- Knead the dough for at least 5 minutes.
- Pour a small amount of oil into the bowl used for proofing. Coat the entire inner surface to give it a good coating.
- Place the dough into the bowl.
- Cover the bowl in gladwrap.
- Place the bowl in the oven.
- After a few hours, check on the dough.
Rolling the base
- Pre-dust the working area with some flour.
- Take the dough out of the oven (it will look somewhat like the image at the top).
- Punch the dough to remove the larger air bubles.
- Split the dough into 6 approx. equal size balls.
- Using a rolling pin, roll out into a circular shape.
Pre-cooking the base
- Ensure that the fire is roaring, and that the pizza stone is on the lowest rack and at temperature.
- Dust the pizza paddle with flour and transfer a base to the paddle.
- Place the base onto the pizza stone, close the door and time three minutes.
- After the three minutes, remove the base, it is now ready for adding the toppings.
Some of our favourite toppings include:
- Mushrooms
- Capsicums
- Red onion
- Black olives
- Jalapeno
- Pineapple
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Smoked lamb (in the OzPig)
- Roasted Chicken
- Bacon
- Salami
- Peperoni
- Sausage
- Bocconcini
- Fresh Mozzarella
- Tasty Cheese
- Tomatoe Sauce
- Pesto