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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 Tomato Sauce

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Pizza - How to Make Tomato Sauce

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.
 

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Hi, I am Ruth Gresser from Pizzeria Paradiso, we're making pizza today. So, right now I'm going to show you how to make a very quick, fresh tomato sauce for your pizza. This is a sauce that you should make in the summer time when you can get nice, fresh, tasty tomatoes. I'm going to cook it very quickly. It's quick, easy, it makes a nice little sauce for your pizza without too much trouble. So, I have got three tablespoons of olive oil, and to that I'm going to add a tablespoon of garlic, and about half a teaspoon of oregano, and just let that cook for a minute. So, you're just cooking the oregano and the garlic. Now, in here I have got about five medium size peeled and seeded tomatoes that I have diced. So, we're going to add that to the pan, and that's going to cook for probably about five minutes, and make a nice tomato sauce for our pizza. As you can see some of the liquid from the tomatoes is being cooked out, and you want to -- you don't want to make too thin of a tomato sauce, so you want to let the tomatoes cook a bit, and cook off any of the juice that they release. We're going to add about a teaspoon of salt. I like a quick, simple tomato sauce like this. You can take a long cooking tomato sauce and put it on pizza. I like the fresher style, and for a summer time pizza this just seems like the best option to me. So, just before it's done, I am going to add -- this is about a tablespoon of parsley, and I am saying about for all of these measurements, because really it's up to you. This is a very, simple, straightforward sauce, and you should make it to your own taste. Use as much garlic as you like, or don't use any garlic at all. All the other ingredients are optional, you can put just tomato, salt and pepper, if you want. So, there we have it, tomato sauce for pizza. Next we're going to make a tomato sauce thats good for winter time pizza.

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