Recipe for Italian Pizza at Home

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Pizza dough (same as bread dough):

1. Prepare the dough by mixing together (also with the aid of a bread a machine)
2. 1 and ½ cup of warm water
3. 1 and ½ tea spoon of salt
4. 1 and ½ tea spoon of yeast
5. 3 cups of flour

Wait about 2 hours to rise and you have your pizza dough

Since I assume most of us do not have a wood firebrick oven in the house. The  next best
thing is the use of a pizza stone in a normal oven. I have my pizza stone for over 10 years and
I use it to make nice crusty breads (bread does not cook well in a bread machine).
The pizza stone will retain heat from the oven and  cook the pizza fast without the need for
fattening oils etc - So when baking you don't need a greased pan. Just put the dough on the
pizza stone. The crust will come out dry and 'crusty' ( The pizza stone can be used to make
excellent bread as well )

Ok use either good canned tomatoes (Just tomatoes - not any pre-prepared sauces) or fresh
tomatoes if they are available - You can even mix them together - put them in a food
processor and chop them.

Put the mozzarella in the food processor so you will be able to spread it over the pizza.

Now use the rolling pin to make a thin layer of pizza crust. What I do now, it sounds a little
strange but it helps a lot, put the raw pizza (the pizza crust that you just rolled out) by itself in
the oven for just 1 minute (Reason: if the crust is too soft is very difficult to add tomatoes etc
without ruining it) - After 1 minute remove the pizza dough and apply the tomatoes,
mozzarella and fresh basil. Place the pizza in the oven for about 5 / 6 minutes 'till all the
mozzarella is nicely melted. Take it out of the oven and serve. What is nice about this pizza is
the unexpected different authentic Italian taste - also there are no greases oils or addictives of
any type ( like powder garlic so popular in the Italian American food tradition but never used
in Italy - so you are not allowed to use it). Anyway, after you practice with a few pizzas I
might even give you  the permission to try it with different toppings.