pizza - Fermentation
Ingredients Between 2-Pizza Dough
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Equipment
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Method
Topping
Method-Topping
- Mix warm water, sugar and yeast together in a small bowl.
- Cover bowl with a tea towel and stand in a warm area for 10-15 minutes to start fermentation.
- In a large bowl mix flour and salt. Make a well in the centre once mixed.
- Add fermenting yeast to the flour mixture and 1T of oil.
- Mix them thoroughly together and knead.
- Place dough in an oiled bowl and cover for 5 minutes in a warm place to proof.
Topping
- 1 Tablespoon of tomato sauce
- 1/4 cup of tomato cooking sauce
- Pinch of dried herbs
- 1/2 Cup of grated cheese
- Two additional ingredients of your choice
Method-Topping
- Preheat oven to 200° c
- Roll dough to fit pizza tray
- Prepare topping ingredients - some of your selections may need chopping
- Combine sauce, tomato paste and herbs and spread over pizza base
- Arrange toppings over sauce mixture
- Top pizza with grated cheese
- Bake in hot oven for 20 minutes
FERMENTATION
Fermentation is the conversion of sugar molecules into ethanol (alcohol) and carbon dioxide by yeast or bacteria. Fermentation is a natural process used to make many different foods such as wine, beer, yoghurt and, of course, pizza.
The ingredients in this recipe that are involved in the fermenting are the sugar, yeast and water. At the beginning of the recipe, we mixed these three ingredients. The yeast takes time time to break down the sugars, which is its food, via fermentation, to produce ethanol and carbon dioxide. It must be warm for this to occur. This is how the yeast, sugar, time and temperature work together to create the chemical reaction.
The two end products, alcohol and carbon dioxide, are very important to the pizza dough. Without the carbon dioxide the pizza wouldn't rise. It makes it rise by creating little pockets of air in the dough.
Overall, fermentation is very important to making pizza and without it we wouldn't get such a scrumptious result.
The ingredients in this recipe that are involved in the fermenting are the sugar, yeast and water. At the beginning of the recipe, we mixed these three ingredients. The yeast takes time time to break down the sugars, which is its food, via fermentation, to produce ethanol and carbon dioxide. It must be warm for this to occur. This is how the yeast, sugar, time and temperature work together to create the chemical reaction.
The two end products, alcohol and carbon dioxide, are very important to the pizza dough. Without the carbon dioxide the pizza wouldn't rise. It makes it rise by creating little pockets of air in the dough.
Overall, fermentation is very important to making pizza and without it we wouldn't get such a scrumptious result.