How to Bake a Pizza - Pizza Oven Recipes

Here is an easy recipe for a very tasty home-made cheese and tomato pizza. Most of the work is in the dough preparation but if this is done correctly the results are super tasty.

For your pizza dough you will need:

  • 1tsp - salt

  • Warm water 120ml

  • Olive oil 1tsp

  • 225g - white flour

  • Yeast 1tsp

  • 1/2tsp - sugar

Pizza Topping Ingredients:

  • 125g - Buffalo mozzarella cheese

  • 4tbsp - Tomato Puree

  • 1tsp - dried oregano

  • salt and pepper to taste

Preparing The Pizza Dough:


1) Add salt, flour together and blend yeast and sugar. Then mix well with your hands and make a small hole in the middle of the mix for the olive oil and water to be added.

2) Add the water and olive oil to the small hole and mix well with your hands while bringing the ingrediants together to make a small ball. Add extra flour and water if necessary.

3) Continue this motion for about three minutes or until the mix is one ball and the bowl is fairly clean.

4) Move the dough to a floured surface and continue to knead until the dough becomes smooth and elastic.

5) Allow the dough to raise, which should take more or less an hour. It helps to lightly oil a bowl and also the surface of your dough, wrap it in a clean dry cloth and leave in the bowl.

6) The dough will rise to more or less double its initial size.

7) Return the dough to a floured surface and knead for a few more minutes.

8) Stretch out your dough in the shape of a circle. Decide the desired thickness of the pizza base.

Place your dough on a non-stick baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees Celcius. Spread the tomato sauce evenly over the pizza base. Now scatter the mozzarella around your pizza evenly and sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano. Drizzle with olive oil. Place on the top shelf of your oven and cook for roughly fifteen minutes, or until the cheese has melted and the base is firm. Now you can add your own choice of extra toppings. Remember to ensure any meat used has been previously cooked. Then return to the oven for a further 4-7 minutes.

You can add your own personal choice of extra meat, fish or vegatables.

Pizzas cooked in a restaurant are generally baked in a pizza oven.