Today I'm going to share another creation of mine, from the Fake It, Till You Make It category. This time I tried to fake a pizza that I saw years ago in TV. There was a Pizza Hut commercial that certain stations were airing years ago. There was no Pizza Hut in my city back in those days, so all I was left with was the commercial.
A week ago somehow I remembered the commercial and I thought let's try it out as now I have proper pizza trays, round ones and I can recreate the one from the commercial. Yeah, so much naivety in one place 😂.
The name of the pizza I saw can't recall, but I can describe it to you. The main idea was wrapping cheese pieces, cubes in the edge/crust that melts during baking time and when you bite the pizza, you get a very creamy, almost running cheese.
So the mission was to find out how much flour I need for two equal sized pizza and the other, to try to recreate the Pizza Hut pizza, that I saw years ago.
My last attempt was 500g flour for 3 trays, but I got 4 pizzas of different sizes. So this time I thought 250g flour should be enough and tried to figure out how much yeast, olive oil, salt and water you need.
What you see on the photo is 250g all purpose flour. Logic said if for 500g pizza it is recommended the use of 7g dry yeast, it's a no brainer how much you need for half. I had a pack of dry yeast opened, so I thought why not play it cool, place the bowl of flour on the scale and just drop 3.5g yeast and this is where things started to get complicated. I did it gradually as once it is mixed with flour,there's no way of taking it out. slowly, slowly I added the pack and the scale showed nothing, was sitting at zero 😳
No problem I said to myself as I thought the amount of yeast has to be enough. So I moved on and added 2 teaspoon of salt.
Next, was the olive oil, of which I thought 1.5 spoon would be ok. This spoon is not so deep, it's pretty flat actually.
150ml water was enough t make a good dough. I covered the bowl and let it rest for 40 minutes in a warm place.
After the dough doubled in size, I divided it in two and started to roll it out. The pizza tray is round and my dough looks like this. Is it round? Far from it but don't expect perfection from me in this category.
I tried and saw it covered the tray, so it was good enough for me. I needed the dough a bit bigger, you're going to see why.
Again, fake it till you make it. Can you see where I cheated? I can 😂
The second one was a bit better, but still not round.
However, it covered the tray perfectly.
The rest was easy. I spread the pizza sauce on both relatively evenly.
Then came the cheese. I wanted small cubes and even though these cubes don't look small on the photo, trust me, they were small.
After spreading them on the dough round, I covered that part with the dough.
There was no meat this time as I wanted to keep it simple, so I chose red bell pepper and sweet corn, which I love.
Cheese can't be missing from the top, so here it is.
Baked for 20 minutes, at 190C.
And this is where you can see the problems, or that I did not make it.
This is the past, where the cheese should be running out of the dough. Instead you can see, there's no cheese inside, just a caramelized something, that was cheese once.
This was empty for example, there was no cheese here 😳
The dough was pretty thin, but a bit to greasy. I suppose one spoon of oil is enough.
So, in conclusion, I faked it but did not make it. I'm not saying it wasn't good, but I need fine tuning. Never will I ever use cheese at the edges, let Pizza Hut do it, it's not for me. As about the dough, 250g flour is perfect, with 3.5g yeast, 150ml lukewarm water and 2 tsp salt.
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