Pizza dough

I have changed my pizza dough recipe now after watching a video on Youtube about how to make great Neapolitan pizza. It involves two steps.

Poolish for pizza

200 g water, 5 g honey, 5 g yeast

200 g flour, let sit out 1 hour

then put in ridge overnight

(I did do it all in one day by resting it in the fridge starting in the early morning and taking it out at about 4pm. It was fine.)

Add to poolish

300 g bread flour

300 g water

20 g salt

200 g 00 flour

in case we need a 5th pizza

175 g flour, 125 g water, 5g salt

Dough steps:

Mix all above ingredients

Knead till integrated

Slap and fold into ball

Tap with olive oil on it, then let it rest 15 min.

Lift and fold into a ball, tap with oil

Cover bowl with a plate, rest 1 hour

Make 4 balls, 280 g each

Roll and close, cover with plastic and

Rest 1 hour

Cover in flour, press air to edges

Tomato sauce

Mix Salt, canned whole tomato, oil and basil

Crush together by hand

Heat oven to 550F. Bake for 8 minutes.

Sheet pan recipe:

I've been using a pizza dough recipe from the Laura Secord Canadian cookbook for many years now as I have notes on the page of how to adjust the recipe to create two cookie sheet sized pizzas. But my notes aren't clear so I decided to put the recipe here instead.

First, activate yeast with sugar and water:

2 cups lukewarm water
3 teaspoons quick rising yeast
2 teaspoon of white sugar
3 tablespoons olive oil


Dry ingredients;
600 g of all purpose or 00 flour
2 tsp. salt


Mix half of the flour with the yeast/water mix and also add 3 tablespoons of olive oil. When that is blended add the rest of the dry ingredients. Knead to form a soft dough and let rise for a few hours.

This dough can be flattened out to fill two large cookie sheets which is the minimum we need around here. Am going to blend up a can of cooked tomatoes with some salt, olive oil and oregano for the sauce and dress one sheet pizza with mozzarella and fresh basil and another with just roasted vegetables and basil, cheese free. Bake at 450 for about 20 minutes. Despite the photo I have here, I usually bake them separately now as it the bake is more even that way.