The Italian pizza

I'm going to show you how to prepare the authentic Italian pizza at home. You only need a few of ingredients: yeast, flour, Parma ham, Parmesan cheese and rocket. As you can see at the image, this pizza looks like those of the Italian trattorias! You can buy one of these to cooking the pizza. This kind of stone permits the base of the pizza be perfectly cooked.

Ingredients (2 little pizzas):
For the dough you'll need
225gr of flour
130ml of water
A stream of olive oil
6gr of fresh yeast
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of sugar
Para la pizza
For the rest you'll need
4 slices of Parma ham
Rocket
Natural tomato crush (a bottle)
3 mushrooms
A slices of Parmesan cheese
1 mozzarella (if it is from buffalo milk is better)
A stream of olive oil

Making the dough

It is important to prepare the dough 5 hours before to cook the pizza. So if you want to make it at night you'll prepare the dough at the morning.

First, mix the yeast with 125ml of cold water, a stream of olive oil and the teaspoon of sugar. Stir it until all the ingredient became to a homogeneous liquid.

It is better if you have a machine to knead the dough. If not, you always can do it with the hands. Put the flour in a bowl and add the mix of water and yeast. Knead it for some seconds and add now the salt. Knead it for 15 minutes.

After kneading the dough, form a ball with it, cover it with flour and clingfilm and keep it resting for 5 hours.

You can see the dough is ready because it will be increased twice of its size. Try to stretch it with the hands or if not with a rolling pin. Form two pizzas and reserve it.

Ingredients and cooking time

The most important thing to cooking the pizza in the oven is to heat it at maxim power, 250 degrees. Put the air vent function, grill and heat for down. You can heat the stone meantime you heat the oven. If you have not this stone you can use the rack with special paper for the oven.

Try to do a good fried tomato for the base of the pizza. For this, buy a good natural crushed tomato and put in in a pot, add olive oil and salt. Keep it a medium heat until it reduce twice of its volume.

Put the tomato sauce over the pizza, the mozzarella and the sliced mushrooms. Put it in the oven and cook it for 10-15 minutes. Take out the pizza and put the Parma ham, rocket and parmesan cheese.