Neapolitan pizza (including the dough). Continue by holding the dough firmly with one hand while with the other pulls it slightly. Then rest the pulled flap on the hand holding the pizza, lift the dough up from the work surface and place the dough back down, rotating it a quarter turn. Garnish the pizza as you like and cook.
Rocco shares a great pizza dough recipe and a super easy sauce that will have your family and friends asking for seconds. Watch the full video including how to make that sauce below. Its silky smooth texture creates an easy-to-shape dough that yields a wonderfully chewy, crispy crust. You can cook Neapolitan pizza (including the dough) using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Neapolitan pizza (including the dough)
- It's of Pizza dough.
- Prepare 800 g of flour “00” (Caputo pizza “00” flour recommended).
- It's 500 ml of lukewarm water.
- Prepare 25 g of salt.
- It's 1 g of dried yeast.
- Prepare 10 g of sugar.
- It's 25 g of olive oil.
This is destined to be your new go-to recipe for pizza night! A true Naples dough uses only flour, water, salt, and yeast. Some versions substitute sourdough starter for the yeast and some use a combination of both commercial yeast and natural starter. But this version is for yeast only (I recommend instant yeast).
Neapolitan pizza (including the dough) instructions
- Put the flour in a large bowl and add the water to one end. Add the salt to the water to dissolve at the same end. Then add the yeast and mix into the flour at the other end. Following this mix it all together. Then add the sugar followed by the oil and mix some more..
- Now the mixture should be combined ready to knead. Knead for 15 to 20 minutes. Then shape into a ball and cover to rest for 20 minutes with the bowl..
- Then shape into a long baguette and cut into 6 pieces (for 6 pizzas). Flour the bowl and place the 6 pieces inside, cover with a damp tea towel for 6-8 hours..
- After this the dough should have increased in size. This is now ready for use. You can stretch each dough ball out to make the pizza base..
- Place the base into a hot pan to cook. While in the pan you can add your toppings, squashed fresh tomatoes are great for the base with toppings of your choice. Here we have half mozzarella and basil and half with added nduja and olives. Cook in the pan until the base is browned underneath around 5-10 minutes..
- Next place the pan under a pre-heated grill to cook the top around 10 minutes or until the toppings are cooked and the pizza is lightly browned. Buon appetito!.
The essential part of Neapolitan pizza is the pizza dough. In honing our dough recipe, we've learned a few things from some of the premiere pizza restaurant chefs in America, who themselves have studied the pizza in Naples! Neapolitan pizza is made from a lean dough—that is, it's got nothing but flour, water, salt, and yeast. Always weigh your ingredients (including water!) to ensure your dough is made to the recipe. But great pizza can be made with some basic strong white bread flour if that's al you can find.