Recipes / Real Pizza

Ingredients

• 1 cup Flour
• 1/2 cup Water
• 1/8 teaspoon Yeast
• 2 1/2 cups Flour
• 6 fluid ounces Water
• 1 1/2 teaspoons Yeast
• 1 1/2 teaspoons Salt
• 1 teaspoon Sugar
• 2 tablespoons Olive Oil
• As Needed Provolone Cheese
• 3 1/2 cups Furmano's Crushed Tomatoes
• As Needed Any Toppings Desired

Preparation

1. Make poolish with first 3 ingredients a day before you plan on eating your pizza. Let poolish sit overnight to bubble.
2. Add 2 1/2 cups flour and 3/4 cup water to the poolish, mix, and then allow to rest for 20 minutes.
3. Add yeast, salt, sugar and olive oil, mixing and kneading to form smooth dough.
4. Allow dough to rise, covered, for 45 minutes.
5. Fold edges to middle, turn over and let rise another 45 minutes.
6. At the middle of this second rise, preheat oven to 500 degrees.
7. Divide dough in half; shape each into 16" flat pizza round, place on piece of parchment, cover and let rest about 30 minutes.
8. Use giant pizza peel to transfer crust on parchment to hot oven stone and bake for 4-5 minutes. Remove from oven.
9. Top pizza with sliced provolone, then Furmano's Crushed Tomatoes, some salt and seasoning as desired.
10. Top with any other toppings desired.
11. Bake pizza again for 8 minutes until crust is golden brown and cheese is bubbly.