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Pizza base and tomato sauce
Chrissy Freer · taste.com.au · 2009 · Original
other (asserted)
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