Just an ordinary South African woman: 2 ingredient pizza base

Friday, 5 February 2016

2 ingredient pizza base - what really happened

Here is the ACTUAL recipe that works. [The story below will tell you how I got to this one.]

2 Ingredient pizza dough

Makes 8 large great-tasting thin-based pizzas

Ingredients
1kg tub of plain yoghurt
10 cups of flour

Method:

Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius
Mix ingredients and knead the dough into a ball.
Cut ball into 4 and then halve each quarter. Roll into 8 little dough balls.
Roll each ball out in a circular shape.
Spray Spray-and-cook on pizza plate.
Put rolled-out dough on pizza plate and add desired toppings.
Bake for 5 minutes (per pizza)

THE STORY...

The recipe I found on the internet says...
1 cup flour
1 cup plain yoghurt

We are 4 people...so I thought I would use 4 cups of flour and 4 cups plain yoghurt.

I put in my 4 cups of flour and start measuring out the yoghurt. So I see that the 1kg tub of yoghurt gives you exactly 4 cups - which I though was nice.

I start mixing the ingredients - and it is all sticky...
So I add some more flour...
and some more...
and some more...

I ended up with this recipe:

1kg tub of plain yoghurt
10 cups of flour

So now I've got my dough. I divide it in 4 for 4 people...

I'm rolling the dough out. It is NOT easy to try and roll it in a circular form.

I spray my pizza plate with Spray-and-cook (I've learned the hard way that this is one thing you should never forget to do.)

Put on base topping and all the other stuff...

I put it in the oven....and as I'm watching it I realise my base looks a bit thick...and I start to worry that everything on top will be totally dry and the base still raw...

Not the case...10 minutes later I had my first pizza.