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Beth
In What’s Cookin?” we will bring you some of our favorite recipes. The theme for this issue of KidzPost is “All Things Round” so we are focusing on pizza. See below for a history of pizza, a recipe to make a pizza from scratch (sent to us by one of our editors, Trevor, currently living in Italy) and watch us making our own mini pizza creations. Enjoy!
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Trevor
The first pizza was made in Italy. It was a small round piece of dough about three inches wide and had tomato sauce on top. In 1989, an important chef decided to make a special pizza to honor Queen Margherita of Savoy. He made a 14 to 16 inch pizza that would resemble the Italian flag, which has three vertical rectangles, colored green, white and red. It had a crust, tomato sauce, buffalo mozzarella cheese and a basil leaf; when it was done he added olive oil. (Tomato sauce for the red, mozzarella for the white and a basil leaf for the green.)
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Trevor
Ingredients:
Dough:
½ cup water
1-cup flour
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon yeast
Toppings:
Mozzarella cheese (enough to cover the pizza)
Tomato sauce (enough to cover the pizza)
Parmesan cheese (enough to cover the pizza)
Basil 2
Black pepper (just a pinch)
Instructions:
In a medium mixing bowl or food processor, blend yeast, water, and teaspoon of flour. Foam should form on the surface in about 8 minutes. Then blend in rest of flour and salt, forming a smooth, quite soft, slightly sticky dough. Blend in food processor no more than 30 seconds (then knead 5 minutes by hand); in mixer blend for about 5 minutes; by hand stir to blend and knead 5 minutes. Place in a large oiled bowl, cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let stand in a cool place until doubled in bulk (about 1 1/2 hours). Form pizza style crust add sauce, cheese, and basil leaves.
Baking Pizza:
To make pizza, lightly oil a 14- to 16-inch pizza pan. Preheat oven to 500 degrees, setting rack as low as possible in oven. Roll out dough to about a 16-inch round. Spread over pan, rolling in edges to form a rim. Let rest 10 minutes. Top as desired or suggested below and bake 10 minutes. Then using a spatula and thick oven mitt, slip the pizza off the pan directly onto the oven rack by pulling out rack, grasping pizza pan firmly with protected hand, and using spatula or pancake turner to slip pie off pan and onto rack. Slide rack back in place and bake 2 minutes. Slip pizza back onto pan and remove from oven. Cut and serve.
Beth’s Margherita Pizza
Kailey’s Meat Lovers Pizza
Carly’s Cheese, Basil and Bacon Pizza
Avery’s Hawaiian Pizza
Sean’s Everything Pizza
Kate’s Pretty Pizza
Rosa’s Vegetarian Pizza
Nic’s Fiesta Pizza
Pizza
Party!!!
