Well, make your own right at home. It is really simple, ie dummy proof - of course provided you have these few equipment in hand, (1) Your Hands (A food processor with a dough hook will shorten the time, but your hands would do just fine); (2) An oven (even a round convection roasting oven works); (3) A pizza pan (10 inch), and lastly (4) A strong craving for your own fresh pizza at a marginally lower price.
Am going to share the recipe here, just in case any of you have a sudden pizza craving but don't want to reach out the phone for Pizza Hut or Dominos.
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon instant dry yeast
3/4 cup lukewarm water
Instructions:- (a) If kneading by hand
1) Add the flour, salt, instant dry yeast in a bowl and pour the water in slowly to mix the ingredients with a spoon until the dough is ready to be formed into a ball. If the mixture is too wet and sticky, salvage it by adding some flour (in my case half a tablespoon to one tablespoon).
2) Remove from bowl to a clean table surface. Put some flour (1/2 tablespoon to 1 tablespoon) on it and dust your hands with flour to avoid the dough from sticking to the table and you, of course. Knead for about two to five minutes.For the newbies, kneading consist of rolling the dough into a ball, holding the dough with one hand and with the other hand pushing outwards to stretch the dough, and then pulling it back, then half turning the dough and repeating the same thing.
3) Shape it back into a round ball and roll out by hand into a circle to fit your pizza pan. (I cheated here by using a rolling pin to flatten it to a 3mm thick layer. There should be some leftover dough. The recipe was meant for a 12" pizza)
4) Place dough on a slightly oiled pizza pan and viola, its ready for you to put your desired mixture on it - mine for the day was my 1 cup of uncooked pizza sauce, a slice of ham, mortadella, slices of salami, white mushroom sliced, and sliced onions. (One of my sins is gluttony, it definitely had too much of a good thing in it but it tasted so damn good! Reduce the filling in order to have the crust at the bottom to be well crusty. Or remove from pan in 2/3 of the required baking time and place on a wire rack to continue baking).
5) Preheat the oven to as close to 500F for roughly 10-15 minutes (some ovens don't even reach 500F, mine only up to 450F). Bake pizza for 10-12 minutes, and put a generous mozzarella cheese only at the 11th minute of baking or if you prefer, after it has been taken out of the oven.
As for the homemade uncooked pizza sauce, prepare it before you make the dough to avoid any waiting time. Ingredients are as follows:- 7 oz. of crushed tomatoes (you can blend them but do not over blend, you still want them to be a bit chunky), 1 oz. of tomato paste, 1 tbsps parmesan cheese, 1/4 tsp Oregano, 1/2 tbsp minced fresh garlic, 1/4 tbsp black pepper, 3/4 tsps sugar and 1/2 teaspoons of basil. Whisk all together and allow flavors to blend for one hour before using.
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