Pizza with homemade tomato sauce
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Ingredients
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- ¼ oz dry active yeast
- 2 tbsp white granulated sugar
- 1 cup warm water
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Mix the yeast, sugar, warm water and olive oil and let stand 10 to 20 minutes until active.
The yeast starter
- 3–4 whole tomatoes
- ½ whole onion
- 1 cloves garlic
- basil
- red chili flakes
- oregano
- 1 tbsp sugar
Cook the tomatoes, onion, garlic, basil, chili flakes, oregano and a tablespoon of sugar until reduced and sticky; puree and set aside.
- 2 cup all purpose flour or bread flour
Work two cups of flour into the yeast mixture to a ball of dough; knead on a floured surface five to ten minutes.
- oil
Put in an oiled bowl, cover with plastic film, and let rise until doubled, 45 minutes to an hour.
Rising the dough
Punch out the air, shape the pizza, and build it on a transfer board heavily coated with semolina.
Shaping on semolina
- semolina flour
Bake on a preheated pizza stone in an oven at about 400 to 500 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes.