Pizza for 2 under $6 bucks.
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be turned into a pizza.
If your household is anything like ours, you probably LOVE pizza. We used to spend $20 to $25 every time we went out for pizza and that was happening 2 to 3 times a week. And that was just for 2. Well, you can see where this is going. After we started making pizza at home, it was costing about $6. That's right, 6 bucks.
You're probably liking this already. 10 pounds of flour yields about 8, 12 inch pizzas. So there's roughly about 68 cents a pizza for flour. Yeast runs about $1.50 for 3 packages. You're going to use 2 of those packages for a 2 pizza batch of dough. There's a buck and a half. Now we're up to about $2.00. Add the cost of oil, salt and sugar (maybe 20 cents at the outside) and your up to a whole $2.20. Add a half a jar of pizza sauce for 50 cents, about $2.00 worth of mozzarella cheese, a couple cokes and you're still under $6 bucks for the basic pizza dinner for two.
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I like to add a little extra oregano to my pizza sauce. If I buy Ragu off the shelf pizza sauce, I will add one (1) teaspoon of finely chopped oregano to a half a jar of sauce.
Pizza . . . Making it on your own.
2 Packages yeast ( 1/4 or 1/2 oz. or 2-4 teaspoons of yeast)
(For our pizza, we only use Fleischmann's Yeast!)
2 teaspoons sugar
4 cups of flour or more
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup olive oil
1 and 1/4 cups of warm water or warm milk
Ingredients for pizza: flour, water or milk olive oil, Fleischmann's yeast, salt, and sugar.
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Directions
1. Put yeast into 1/4 cup of warm water. Stir the yeast in the water until it dissolves. The water should be between 100 and 110 degrees F. Warm but not hot is a good guideline. ( 37° C- 43° C ). Stir in 1 teaspoon of sugar until it dissolves. Wait about 5 minutes for the yeast and sugar to activate. You'll notice it foaming. That will tell you it's proofing.
2. In a large mixing bowl, add the flour, salt, olive oil, 1 cup of warm water or milk and the yeast mixture. Mix this with a fork to get all the liquid absorbed by the flour. (You can also use a mixer if you don't want to do it by hand).
3. Place a handful of flour on a mixing surface. Dust your hands and spread out the flour. Empty the contents of the bowl on to the flour. If you prefer to use an electric mixer for blending the ingredients and doing the kneading, that's fine too.
4. Knead the dough for 8-10 minutes or until the texture is smooth and uniform. If the dough seems a little sticky, add a little more flour. One method to knead, is to lean on the dough with the palm of your hand. Press the dough to the mixing surface. Fold the dough and repeat.
5. Place the dough in a bowl and drizzle with olive oil. Place bowl in draft free area and cover with a cloth. If it happens to be winter time, turn your oven on warm for about 5 minutes. Then turn it off. Oil the plate and the dough up real good with olive oil so it doesn't dry out and pop it in the warm oven for about 30 minutes.
6. Take the dough out of the oven and punch down the dough and wait about 45 minutes. Your dough is now ready.
7. Cut the dough in half.
8. Use your hands or dust a rolling pin with flour and gently shape dough on a floured mixing surface until the dough is the desired shape. Keep using flour, as needed so the dough won't stick. Just use your fingers to shape the dough or you can use a rolling pin.
9. Dust a cookie sheet with corn meal. I am partial to cooking my pizza on a pizza stone. Cooking pizza on a pizza stone gives a little more consistency to the browning of the crust.
10.Use a spatula and slide the dough onto the cookie sheet. If you have a peel, assemble the pizza right on the peel dusted with corn meal. This is what makes the pizza slide off the peel. Then use the peel to slide the pizza on the pre-heated Pizza Stone.
11. The more you make dough, the easier it will become. Don't get discouraged if it seems difficult the first time. You will surprise yourself at how easy it becomes the second time.
12. Actually, the hardest part of making dough is the clean up.