Pizza Dough

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• 650 g italian ' 00 ' flour (strong flour)
• 7 g sachet easy-blend yeast
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 25 ml olive oil
• 50 ml warm milk
• 325 ml warm water

Recipe

• 1 mix the flour, yeast and salt together in a large mixing bow.
• 2 stir in the olive oil and warm milk. make sure that the millk is only warm, not hot or the yeast will be killed and the dough won't rise.
• 3 gradually add the warm water, mixing well to form a soft dough.
• 4 on to a floured work surface, knead until smooth and elastic which is about 5 minutes.
• 5 leave it to rise in a clean bowl until doubled in size, which is roughly 1½ hours.
• 6 the website didn't say you had to precook the bases, but as mine was a bit thick, i did. neither did it specify an oven temperature or cook time so i put it in on a baking tray at about 200c and came back to check after 10 minutes.
• 7 *to my excess dough (didn't want 6 8 inch pizzas) i added chopped black olives, garlic and onion then made balls and twists. these stayed fresh and were lovely with soup the next day.