Pizza Dough Recipes , Tips and Quick Questions

domesticgoddess789

Hi I was planning to make my OH a lovely pizza for valentines day and have only just realised that the only flour I have is self raising! Can I use this in pizza dough? I have yeast too.

Many thanks,

SailorSam

I don't know, i normally use bread flour, but if that's all you've got give it a go.
I'm sure it'll be edible and if it's a special valentines meal the important thing is, it's the thought that counts.

Zazen999

http://www.homemadepizza.co.uk/

I put pizza self raising flour into google and found the above......look towards the bottom of the page.

aliadds

There are a couple of recipes in the Bero book which use a scone base with SR flour. You can go to the Bero website if you don't have a book.

Here's one recipe for a pizza cooked in a frying pan! Sounds strange but tastes lovely!:)

http://www.be-ro.com/recipe/showrec109.html

foxgloves

Years ago when we made pizza at school in cookery lessons, we were taught to use a scone base rather than bread.....it may just have been that leaving the bread dough to rise would have taken more time than we had in the lesson, but I have to say they were very nice with a scone base.

taplady

This is a recipe I got from this site somewhere onceupon a time

6oz SR flour
1oz cooking oil
3oz water
pinch salt

put the flour salt and oil in a bowl; and mix vigourously with a wooden spoon then add 2/3 of the water and mix again. The add the rest of the water little by little until you get a nice sticky dough.

there is a topping you could make too
1/2 tin toms chopped finely
1tbs tom ketchup
1tbs tom purree
1 - 2 drops tabasco(optional)
mixed herbs.

simmer the above ingredients in a saucepan while you are making the dough.

hope this is of some help.:)

Silaqui

I made this recipe a while ago - potatoes and SR flour for the base! http://www.lovepotatoes.co.uk/potato-crusted-pizza/

It wasn't bad, put plenty of seasoning in the base though. You could even mix a nice strong chedder in with the base when you mash the spuds.

domesticgoddess789

Hi all thank you for your replies. I followed a usual pizza base recipe and used self raising wholemeal flour to make a heart shaped pizza base and it turned out really well. OH loved it! So thank you very much

gillian576

I've just made pizza for the first time tonight. Used the dough programme on the Panasonic SD253 and the recipe from the same book. It was a relative success but a bit soggy in the middle when cooked. The dough was a bit sticky when it came out, but seemed to roll out OK after adding a little flour.

I made a double quantity and it filled 2 large oven trays. There are 6 of us and there was plenty with a little left over. The taste was great but I wonder how I can improve the base? I cooked it at 210 degrees for about 15 mins. Any longer and the cheese would have been burned.

zippychick

Hi Gillian - hmmm hard to know. Few questions.....

What recipe did you use?
What did you cook it on (can affect the crispiness etc)
Did you use the quantity stated? I always use a bit less and roll it out as thin as seems possible as pizza dough always seems to rise more than i think it will.

Do you think baking it before adding the toppings will help - even for a couple of mins? Just a thought