Homemade Pizza

Serves: 4-5

Ingredients: 1 large pizza dough. 1 tablespoon of flour. 1 small can of tomato sauce. Pizza Stone or Pizza Pan. Shredded Mozzarella Cheese (one package). 2 cloves of garlic. 1 table spoon grated cheese. 1 table spoon of olive oil.

Let’s Get Cooking:

Start off by Pre-heating your oven at 375F

The hardest part of this dish is creating the circular pattern for the dough, so it actually looks like a pizza! But really, its not that hard if you can get the motion re-occurring. First thing you do is make sure your dough is powdered with flour. You shouldn’t be able to stick to your dough at all, so if it requires you to put more than what I have suggested as the amount of flour needed above, please, use more. Place your dough in the center of your pan, making sure there is a bit of flour on the pan and that your dough has flour on both sides, pat the dough on each side. If you want to use a dough roller you can, or you can do it by hand. Stretch the dough so that it gets larger and stays in a circular pattern. Once it’s large enough, that it covers the entire Pan, you can drizzle your olive oil on the dough and open your tomato sauce can. Pour the can right in the middle. Using a spoon, start spreading the sauce by using a circular motion that starts small and gets larger and larger, until the sauce extends to the crust part of the dough, should be about ½ inch. Spread your grated cheese around the sauce as well.

Press your garlic, or slice your garlic and spread it around on top of your sauce. At this point your oven should be pre-heated. Put your pizza pan in the oven. After 20 minutes, check on your pizza, if you see any bubbles; use a fork to poke a hole in the bubble so that it deflates. After 30 minutes, and once it is a golden brown, you can take it out of the oven and add your Mozzarella on top, as much as you like. Place back in the oven, after about 5 minutes, your cheese should be melted, and it’s ready to take out and enjoy! It’s going to be really hot, so let it stand for about 5-7 minutes before you cut into it, otherwise the cheese will go everywhere!