Home  |  Food & Drink  |  American  | 

How to Make Pizza

Pizza - How to Make Dough by Hand Part Two

To properly view this site, javascript must be enabled and Flash version 9 or higher must be installed.
Get the latest Flash player

View Comments (Add Comment)

  • rodifito Flag

    The video don't play complete
    why i can't see the whole video, only plays for a few seconds!!

Ruth Gresser
Pizzeria Paradiso Georgetown
www.eatyourpizza.com  
 

Owner and chef Ruth Gresser grew up cooking with her mother, who owned a catering business in Baltimore, Md. Ms. Gresser cooked her way through Grinnell College in Iowa before moving to San Francisco, where she cooked for several years at Friends a Cafe and at Le Trou Robert. In 1987, she graduated summa cum laude from Madeleine Kamman's Classical and Modern French Cooking School in Glen, NH. She then moved to Washington, DC, where she has helped open four popular restaurants: Pizzeria Paradiso Dupont Circle, Pizzeria Paradiso Georgetown, Blue Plate and Obelisk. Ms. Gresser has been the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including the Women's Chefs and Restaurateurs Madeleine Kamman Scholarship and a guest chef appearance at Alice Waters' renowned Chez Panisse in Berkeley, CA. She has also been profiled in The Washington Post Magazine, The Washington Business Journal and by Georgetown University Television. Ms. Gresser has been a chef demonstrator, contributor and panelist for The Smithsonian Institution and for FreshFarm Markets in Washington, DC. She is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier and Women Chefs and Restaurateurs.

Pizza - How to Make Dough by Hand Part Two

This video will show how to make pizza dough.

This series: 697,244 views

Download to Mobile Device
Tags:

Pizza

,

Dough

,

Crust

,

Sauce

,

Pepperoni

,

Pizza recipes

,

Pizza toppings

,

Homemade pizza

,

Make pizza

Comments:

1 (Read Comments) (Add Comment)

Print

Pizza - How to Make Dough by Hand Part Two

Ingredients

1 lb Flour
10 oz Water
1 tsp Yeast
1 tbsp Salt
1 tbsp Oil
3 tbsp Olive Oil
1 tbsp Garlic
1/2 tsp Oregano
5 Tomatoes
1 tsp Salt
1 tbsp Parsley

Instructions

1. Dump the flour on the counter and create a well in the center. Pour in water that is 100 degrees F.


2. Sprinkle the yeast on top and mix the yeast into the water. Let it sit for a few minutes.


3. Add the oil and salt and mix them into the water and the yeast.


4. Gently mix the flour into the yeast mixture.


5. Start kneading the dough. Take a portion of the dough that's farthest away, and fold it over the front portion and then push away with the heel of your hand. Knead for about 10 minutes or until you have a nice smooth dough.


6. Put the dough to rise in a bowl, cover it with a little plastic or a tea towel and leave it out to rise. It will take about two to three hours or you can refrigerate the dough and let it go overnight.


7. When the dough has finished rising, put some flour down on the counter and take the dough out of the bowl. Knead the dough and then cut pieces of the pizza dough into even size pieces and shape it into balls.


8. Put the dough balls onto a floured flat surface, like a plate, and then cover it and let it rise for another hour or so.


9.  Flatten the dough and press all of the air out of the pizza and then take a rolling pin and roll it and turn it and roll it again until the dough is flattened.


10. For the tomato sauce, cook the oregano and the garlic for a minute. Dice five medium size peeled and seeded tomatoes. Add them to the pan and let the sauce cook for 5 minutes. Add the salt and parsley to finish the sauce.


11. Put the tomato sauce onto the pizza dough as well as any additional toppings.


12. Turn your oven to its highest setting and place the pizza on a pizza stone or preheated pan to simulate a wood-burning oven.
 

Print

Transcripts

So, you need a nice big work surface, and a smooth work surface, so that you can pull all of this pizza dough together really well. As you can see it's starting to come together very nicely. In just a little bit we're going to start the kneading process, so I think I'm going to start that now. You can see that there is still some flour on the counter, but that will get worked in as we continue to work the dough. Now, the pizza dough is pretty soft, its very wet, very moist in the center, and now we're going to start kneading. So, there are several ways to knead. One way to knead the dough is you take a portion of the dough that's farthest away from you, and you fold it over the front portion and then you push away with the heel of your hand. So, I'm pulling the dough towards me and pushing away. Now I'm going to gather up some of this flour and continue. I have this extra dish of flour here in case this dough picks up all of this flour and needs a little bit more while I am kneading it. It will vary from day-to-day how much flour you might need; some days if it's more humid you might need a little extra flour. So, you're going to continue kneading this for about ten minutes, and you can feel the dough change. What you want to do is knead it until you have a nice smooth dough where you have developed the gluten. So, were kneading the pizza dough, and we have been kneading the dough for about ten minutes. It has come together into a very elastic, very soft, dough, that as you can see when I make an imprint into the dough, it comes back completely, and that's what you want. That shows that the gluten has developed in your dough so that the bread, or in this case the pizza, will rise. So, you want to make just -- I mean it will come naturally into a ball shape, which is what you want. Then you just want to put the dough to rise in a bowl like this, cover it with a little plastic or a tea towel, and you can leave it out to rise, it will take about two to three hours, or you can refrigerate it and let it go overnight and use the dough for pizza the next day.

Other Videos

  • How to Make Pumpkin Muffins, Cake, and Loafs

    How to Make Pumpkin Muffins, Cake, and Loafs

    In this video, Petra Cox demonstrates how to make delicious pumpkin treats. If you can resist eating them all yourself, these amazing desserts are guaranteed to wow your holiday guests this year!
  • How to Make Taco Soup

    How to Make Taco Soup

  • How to Eat Sushi - Using Chopsticks

    How to Eat Sushi - Using Chopsticks

  • Peanut Candies

    Peanut Candies

    You only need three ingredients and some minutes to prepare this delicious candies for your children. These candies are known as Garrapiñadas. There is no easier candy to prepare!!
  • How to Boil Lobster

    How to Boil Lobster

    McCormick & Schmick's Executive Chef Ray Hayes demonstrates three different ways to cook lobster.
  • How to Throw a Tailgate Party

    How to Throw a Tailgate Party

    Dan Henry will bring you through a professional's tailgate party. It has a variety of tips plus do's and don'ts for a successful tailgate. It starts with how to plan your menu and goes all the way through to the clean up stage.