Making pizza dough

This is the pizza dough recipe we use to make our pizza bases with - the recipe actually makes 8 - 10 bases so after the dough is made, we roll it out and put whatever we don't use in the freezer (placed between layers of tin foil). I love doing this as it means the next time we are making pizzas we simply need to take the frozen bases out and let them defrost.

When I make this, I cheat a little and put all the ingredients in the Kitchen Aid and mix it that way; it works just as well and rises perfectly (as you can see in the bottom photo!)  After the dough had formed we took it out and had a go at kneading it ourselves - the boys loved this (and they loved the fact they got flour all over themselves too!)

For the ingredients and method, read on:

(From Jamie's Italy)

Ingredients:

800g strong white bread flour
200g fine ground semolina flour or strong white bread flour (I used the strong white bread flour again so 1kg strong white bread flour altogether)
1 level tablespoon fine sea salt
2 x 7g sachets of dried yeast
1 tablespoon golden caster sugar
around 650ml lukewarm water

Method:

Add the yeast and sugar to the lukewarm water, mixing it together then leave for a few minutes.  Mix the flour and salt together, then add the water mixture.  This is where I put the mixture in the Kitchen Aid on a slow setting to begin with, then on a higher speed as the dough came together.

We then took the formed dough out and took turns to roll it by hand, then we popped it in a large bowl, covered with a kitchen towel and left it to rise.  Simple!