Pizza & Pizza Sauce From Scratch!

This is a great recipe to make on a crappy day with friends or kids. It is a very involved but very simple recipe and it's tons of fun to make. My husband is from New York and he's extremely picky when it comes to finding good pizza but even he approved of this so the pizza must be good lol.


Pizza Recipe:
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, chilled (you can use bread flour or any other high gluten flour)
1 3/4 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon instant yeast
1/4 cup olive oil
1 3/4 cups water, ice cold
Semolina flour OR cornmeal for dusting

After chilling the flour for a couple of minutes add the salt and yeast and mix well.

Add in the water and the olive oil and mix well until flour is mixed in

Cover dough and refrigerate the dough overnight


Pizza Sauce Recipe:
1 large can  plum tomatoes
1/2 can of tomato paste
1 medium can tomato sauce
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. black pepper
1 tsp. white granulated sugar
3 sweet or spicy Italian sausages, uncooked
1 tbsp. Italian seasoning
6 fresh Basil leaves
1 cup water
1 tbsp. olive oil

Crush the plum tomatoes in your hand until they are tiny chunks.

Then in a large saucepan add all of the ingredients and simmer for 2 to 3 hours on low heat. Add salt and/or sugar as needed for a lower or higher acidic taste.



Making the pizza:

Flour countertop light and take out dough.

Knead the dough for roughly 10 minutes or until all air bubbles are gone.

You can either cut up the dough using a pizza cutter to make smaller pizzas at this time. Freeze any unused dough (stores for 3 months).

Flour your hands and gently stretch the dough out over your knuckles until you get the crust to the thickness of your liking.

Take semolina or corn meal and lightly dust the bottom of your pizza crust and place on pizza pan.

Take a ladle and pour desired amount of sauce onto crust moving in a circular motion from the inside out for an even spread.

Then take shredded cheese and sprinkle over the top of the pizza and then add any other desired toppings.

Bake pizza in the oven at 375 for roughly 10 minutes or until fully cooked through.