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Pizza base and tomato sauce

Chrissy Freer · taste.com.au · 2009 · Original

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Baker's percentages

Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%) — the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.

Flour

490g

Water

Hydration

Salt

Yeast

1.43%

Oil

Sauce

Cheese

250g

Dough weight

497g

Process

Bake temp

446°F / 230°C

Bake time

8-10 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

stone

Ingredients (10)

  • sugarm honey
  • flourstrong baker's flour450g
  • yeast7g sachet dried yeast7g
  • saltPinch of salt
  • oilm olive oil
  • sauce tomato1kg vine-ripened tomatoes
  • oilextra virgin olive oil
  • sauce tomatoarlic cloves
  • flourchopped fresh basil leaves40 ml · 40g
  • cheese mozzarellabuffalo mozzarella250g

Toppings (2)

Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.

  • over cheese1 large onion
  • post bakeFresh basil leaves