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Pizza: Shape Dough

Introduction | Tips and Techniques | Shaping Dough | Toppings | Serving

Pizza Recipes:
Basic Pizza Dough | Fresh Artisan Pizza with Rosemary Crust | Gorgonzola and Pesto Focaccia Pizza | Grilled Sausage and Peppers Flatbread Pizza with Fennel Seed Crust | Mini Goat Cheese and Sun Dried Tomato Pizzas | Sweet Shop Pizza

 

step1      
 

Lightly flour the work surface.

Work with only half the dough to flatten; form into a small disk.

step3      
 

Pick up the dough and clench your fists, using your thumbs to gently tug and stretch the dough evenly.

step2      
  Give the edge of the dough a final thinning by holding your thumbs up and stretching the dough between them, or hold the dough between your fingers and let the weight of the dough stretch the circle a little further.
step4      
 

For an even thinner, crispier crust, roll out the dough with a rolling pin.

 

 

step5      
 

Once you have shaped the dough, sprinkle the pan with cornmeal and place on the pan.

 

 

step6      
 

Add your sauce of choice, followed by the cheese and then toppings.

 

 

step7      

 

  Tosing dough up in the air has always been a show- stopper. Yet, spinning pizza that way does nothing to enhance the dough. It is believed the stunt began in Italy when a bored pizza-maker wanted to attract customers. Seems he did.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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