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Kevin's Cheese Pizza - Home Alone 🎄

Christmas movie recipe inspiration #1 with my classic cheese pizza. The dough is a simple fluffy crusty bread dough topped with tomato sauce and shredded cheese. A simple but festive recipe to knead up this season.
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Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Course Bread, Brunch, Lunch, Main Course, Sauce
Cuisine American, Italian
Servings 2 people

Equipment

  • Large mixing bowl / Stand mixer with dough hook
  • Baking paper
  • Baking tray
  • Kitchen towel
  • Sauté pan
  • Rubber spatula
  • Grater

Ingredients
  

1 Homemade Pizza Dough Recipe

Tomato Sauce -

  • 2 cups canned tomatoes chopped
  • 1 tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 tsp dried herbs
  • 6 fresh basil leaves
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 small onion grated
  • 5 garlic cloves minced
  • Salt & pepper to taste

Cheese -

  • 2 cups shredded mozzarella
  • 1 cup shredded cheddar

Assembly -

  • Olive oil
  • Semolina

Instructions
 

  • To make the pizza dough we mix all the ingredient together until the dough is sticky and soft. Cover and let this rise for 2 hours, I prefer doing this step the night before and allowing it to proof overnight.
  • The dough needs to rest in a warm spot. Once it has doubled in volume knock it back and form into 2 balls for a medium to large pizza, if you want smaller pizzas divide the dough into 3-4 balls.
  • Roll into balls and if the dough is sticky, add a little olive oil into your palm and before shaping.
  • Cover the dough balls and rest for another 30 mins.
  • In this time we can go ahead and preheat the oven to the maximum heat option, place a baking tray in the oven while it preheats so it gets hot with the oven as we will bake the pizza directly on top of it.
  • We can make the tomato sauce and get the cheese shredded now. To make the sauce, cook the canned tomatoes, garlic, dry herbs, fresh basil, grated onion, olive oil, tomato paste on low heat, covered for 15 mins. Stirring occasionally.
  • Season with salt and set it aside to cool before using.
  • Shred your cheeses and get ready to assemble the pizza.
  • Get a large sheet of baking paper, drizzle a little olive oil on top and spread it out with your fingers, sprinkle over semolina and add one of the dough balls which should’ve risen.
  • Use your fingers to dimple the dough and start stretching it out, maintain a border in the edge on the entire base. For a medium - large pizza the dough should be 9-10 inch in diameter, for a small - medium pizza the dough should be 6-8 inch in diameter.
  • Spoon over the tomato sauce over the base and little on the crust, sprinkle over the shredded cheese.
  • Transfer to the hot oven with the baking tray. Bake for 10-12 mins until the dough has puffed up and gotten color on the crust.
  • You know the pizza is ready when you knock the crust and it has a hollow sound, the cheese is melted and golden and the dough is puffed. Remove from the oven and slice. Serve it hot with fresh basil and oregano.

Notes

  • Do not skip preheating the oven well in advance for a perfectly cooked pizza.
  • Do not over bake your pizza as the base will get very dry.