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Home made Pizza Base.

Servings: 3 pizzas

Time: Preparation time 45 minutes to 1 hour

Ingredients:

¼ cup lukewarm water

½ tsp sugar

2 tsp heaped dried yeast (10 gms) 1 teacup milk

1½ tbsp refined oil

1 tsp salt

1 tsp sugar

300 gms (3 packed cups) maida (plain flour)

Method / Instructions:

1. Mix warm water and sugar in a cup. Feel the water with a finger to check if it is lukewarm. Add yeast. Shake the cup gently to mix the yeast. Cover it and leave it in a warm place till the granules of the yeast disappear and it becomes frothy (10-15 minutes). (If it does not swell, discard it).
   

2. Mix milk, oil, salt and sugar in a pan. Keep aside. When the yeast becomes frothy, heat this milk mixture to make it lukewarm. Add the ready yeast mix to the luke warm milk mixture.
   

3. Add this yeast and milk mixture to the flour (maida) and knead well to make a smooth dough. Grease a big polythene, brush the dough with a little oil and put it in the polythene. Keep it covered in a warm place to swell for 1 hour or till it is double in size.
   

4. Now punch it down to its original size, brush with oil and keep it back in the polythene for another 15 minutes or till it swells again.
   

5. Make 3 balls. Roll out a little and flatten each on a 10" square greased aluminum foil to a thin oval pizza, using the fingers, even thinner than 1/4". Prick each base with a fork. Brush pizza base with butter or olive oil. Put the toppings and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 15 minutes.
   

Best Wishes.