Time to start pizza! This New York style pizza is so yummy and doesn’t require anything special. A pizza stone/steel is always better for a pizza crust – but luckily there are fun work arounds to provide similar results.

If you don’t have a pizza stone – you can put a cookie sheet in the oven while its pre-heating! Some people place it upside down, and some people place it right side-up. Try out both and see which one you like.

The overall theory of why you want a pizza stone, is it absorbs heat and helps heat the oven more/retain heat to cook the bottom of the pizza. A cookie sheet may not be as effective at this, but it still is better than nothing!

I will say – I use a scale for everything to measure. If you don’t have one and you want one, they are super cheap. BUT you can do easily do estimated conversions online.

Recipe – pizza dough

• 150g of All-Purpose Flour
• 90g Water
• 4.5g Salt
• 4.5g Olive Oil
• 3g Sugar
• 0.75g Instant Yeast

• Canned tomatoes (I Use)
• Block Mozzarella
• Pecorino Romano or Parmesan
• Your favorite toppings!

This will make one pizza.

Instructions

1. Mix the following ingredients in a bowl and kneed the dough for 5-10 minutes
   • The dough should be combined and smooth!
2. Place the dough in an oiled bowl and cover. Let the dough rise in the fridge for 12-48 hours
   • Try to use before 48 hours in the fridge
3. Pull out the dough an hour before you plan to use it, and preheat the oven to the hottest oven setting. 500°-550° is ideal for a home oven if you can! Make sure you have the pizza stone (or alternative) in the oven to preheat too.
4. Making Pizza Sauce: I combine tomatoes, 1 tbsp of sugar, and salt to taste. Feel free to add in any Italian seasonings you like. I combine in a blender.
5. Grate the amount of cheese you want, and get ready to stretch the dough.
6. Flour your work surface. Stretch the dough to your desired size and thickness. I try to make my pizza dough pretty thin to match the New York style. But frankly it’ll taste bomb either way.
7. If you have a pizza peel that is sweet – feel free to use that! Or just pull out the preheated surface you plan to cook on, and assemble your pizza on that.
8. Assemble the pizza in whatever order you want. Just make sure to sprinkle pecorino romano/parm on top!
9. Put on the bottom rack of the oven to cook for 5-7 minutes – or until it looks done

When I made my recipe this week to take pictures – I decided to make frozen pizzas. I don’t have any cooked pizza pictures, but I will add some later once I bake them. Keep an eye out on our website next week for how to turn this recipe into easy homemade frozen pizzas!

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