Recipes for foodies and film nerds. Because life's too short for stale popcorn and crappy movies.
HEEYYYY YOUUUU GUYYYYYS, it’s National Junk Food Day! Which could really be any day for me, especially if pizza is involved. And I’m relatively certain this would be the case for The Goonies too– which is why you now have a pirate-y, Chunk-y, highly fattening set …
I've tried a number of pizza dough recipes in the last few months and this is the best so far-- a very slightly simplified version of the recipe used at one of my favorite NYC pizza joints, Roberta's. Using bread flour is key if you can find it!
In a large mixing bowl, combine flours and salt. In a small mixing bowl, stir together 1 1/4 cup of lukewarm tap water, the yeast and the olive oil, then pour it into flour mixture.
Knead with your hands until well combined, approximately 3 minutes—if you need to add another tsp of water to the mix to collect all that flour, that’s fine. Let the mixture rest for 15 minutes.
Then knead rested dough for 3 minutes until smooth and elastic and shapes easily into a ball of dough.
Cut into two pieces and shape each into a ball. Place on a heavily floured surface or in separate bowls, cover, and let rest and rise for 3 to 4 hours at room temperature until doubled in size. You can also refrigerate for 8 to 24 hours-- just be sure to remove it 30 to 45 minutes before you begin to shape it for pizza.
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