- If you like ordering pizza from your local pizzeria, you'll love making it at home. No pizza will ever taste as fresh as it does when you eat it straight from your own oven. This article gives instructions on how to make hot, fresh pizza the fast way, or from scratch. Scroll to the bottom for a section on popular toppings combinations.
Method Fast Pizza
1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C). The oven should be piping hot before you start cooking the pizza.
2Prepare the crust. Remove the unbaked crust from the packaging. Place it on a round or rectangular baking sheet, depending on what you have on hand. Use a pastry brush to spread a thin coating of olive oil over the top of the crust.
3. Spread pizza sauce on the crust. How much pizza sauce you add is purely a matter of personal preference. If you love a lot of sauce, go ahead and slather it on. If you prefer your pizza on the dry side, spoon a little in the middle and spread it around in a thin layer.
If you want to make a white pizza, add a little extra olive oil and skip the pizza sauce.
You can make a quick pizza sauce using tomato paste, a can of diced tomatoes, and some spices. Simmer the paste and tomatoes (without draining them first) together over low heat. Add salt, oregano and pepper to taste. Continue simmering until the sauce cooks down to the consistency of pizza sauce.
4. Add toppings. Layer your favorite toppings over the sauce. Add as many or as few toppings as you want. Put the heavier toppings, like onions, chicken or sausage, on the bottom layer, and add lighter toppings, like spinach leaves or peppers, on the top layer. Continue until your pizza is loaded with the amount of toppings you like.
Other than pepperoni, which is pre-cooked, meat toppings should always be cooked before you put them on the pizza. They'll get heated when you bake the pizza, but they won't fully cook. If you're using ground beef, sausage, chicken, or another meat, brown it thoroughly on the stove and drain the grease before you add it to your pizza.
Remember that if you add too many vegetable toppings, your pizza's crust might turn out a little soggy. The water from the vegetables moistens the dough. Limit the amount of spinach and other "watery" vegetables you put on your pizza if you're worried about this happening.
5. Add the cheese. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese over the toppings. Layer it on thick if you like it that way, or add a thin layer if you're going for a lighter pizza.
6. Cook the pizza. Place the pizza in the oven for about 20 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melted. Remove it from the oven and allow it to cool for a few minutes before slicing.
Tips
If you extend the cheese further out than the tomato sauce and leave little gaps in the watery tomato-sauce layer through which the cheese can bond to the crust, the cheese layer will not slide off en masse so easily.
For more nice crisp top, broil the top of your pizza. Remember, keep an eye on it! Keep it in the broiler for about two minutes. This process will make a nice golden top.
If the crust and top are burnt before the inside is cooked enough, the temperature is too high. A thicker pizza needs lower temperatures so it cooks long enough to be done inside without burning the outside. You can turn up the heat or even broil the pizza briefly to brown the top, at the end, while eyeing it to avoid burning it.
Before you put your pizza in the oven, spray the pan with a bit of olive oil, for a crisper end-result. It also prevents it from sticking to the pan. Try Mascarpone cheese in the tomato sauce. Instead of tomato sauce, you can use spaghetti sauce. Pre-bake the crust a little if you like it more evenly cooked through and done rather than soggy where it meets the sauce, like foccacia pizza.
Warnings
Avoid putting the temperature too high in the oven, if you don't it can cause fires.
Always keep an eye on your pizza, so it doesn't burn. To avoid burning yourself, use towels or oven mitts when taking your pizza out of the oven.
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