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WITEK'S PIZZA
Hi. my name's Witek. Cooking is my passion!
Come, bake a pizza with me.
The quantities in this recipe are for a large party: for about 8 small pizzas.
I'll start by saying what we need. For the base: 550 ml of water at 30°C,
100 grams of yeast, some sugar, and 1 kilo of flour.
(Use all-purpose flour or bread flour).
For the sauce: ½ litre of tomato pulp, 5 cloves of garlic, finely chopped;
salt, sugar, rosemary.
Of course we're going to need cheese: a kilo.
We also need toppings for our pizzas.
I suggest various cheeses: mozarella, gorgonzola, Parmesan, brie, or goat's cheese.
If you're not a vegetarian you might fancy meat:
-- ham, dried sausage, pepperoni, kabanos or bacon.
How about barbecued meat? Or prawns, anchovies, or tuna?
I also recommend Pesto, capers, black or green olives, chanterelles,
mushrooms, fresh tomatoes and peppers, onion and garlic,
egg, cucumber, or red beans.
You can sprinkle your pizza with chilli, decorate it with basil or pour sauce over it.
It's up to you to compose your own pizzas or to use trusted recipes.
The oldest, simplest pizza in the world, the Margherita: tomato sauce and cheese.
You can sprinkle it with oregano and enrich it with fresh tomato.
Other well-known pizzas include the exotic Hawaii -- with ham and pineapple,
Pescatore -- with tuna (the photo shows anchovies),
Vesuvio -- ham,
Pepperoni -- pepperoni sausage.
Then there's the Four Cheeses pizza -- with the base cheese, mozarella,
gorgonzola and Parmesan.
and Funghi -- with mushrooms (the one in the photo has more ingredients,
and the fungi we used were chanterelles,
but usually you'll find field mushrooms on this pizza.)
You can also use the internet menu of some pizzeria to choose toppings.
But I'd recommend being creative.
The base ingredients, the toppings and a few tested pizzas
can also be found in text version in the film description.
Let's get started! We begin with the dough.
THE DOUGH
Add a teaspoonful of sugar to warm water.
This is so little that the dough won't taste sweet,
but the yeast will rise faster.
Add a packet of yeast and stir.
Mix.
Gradually add the prepared kilo of flour.
Mix.
When the texture of the dough looks like this, start kneading.
The flour absorbs the water gradually, so even if the dough
looks too wet at first,
it may turn out all right. If it's really too wet, add a little more flour.
I don't add olive oil to the dough, because I can't taste the difference,
and the finished pizza will be fatty enough anyway!
This is what the dough should look like. Now leave it to rise.
After a while, with the dough still rising, we can get started on the sauce.
TOMATO SAUCE This is really simple.
Half a litre of tomato pulp,
a tablespoonful of sugar;
five cloves of garlic, finely chopped;
and a tablespoonful of salt. Add some rosemary -
actually, you can use any herbs you like -
Mix...
... and the sauce is ready.
CHEESE
Now grate the cheese, which is a basic ingredient of any pizza.
Return to the dough. A few hours have passed and it has risen.
It's ready to be used.
For better access to your toppings, chop them and put them in little bowls.
Before you start working on the pizza, make sure you've got chopping boards
to roll the pizzas and to cut them when they're ready.
If you're using a pizza oven, make a fire. Prepare a board for the toppings.
and a spade to put the pizza in the oven.
But you're likely to be using an ordinary oven.
Heat it to the maximum setting and make sure you've got baking sheets.
You'll also need a rolling pin and knives.
Everything's ready. The guests may enter.
Make the first pizza.
PIZZA
Take a bit of dough and roll it on a board sprinkled with flour.
I use maize flour, because it tastes better uncooked.
My pizzas are elliptical because they fit our oven better.
Really a pizza base should be stretched by hand or tossed in the air,
but a rolling pin is the simplest method.
Now move the base to the sheet or to another board, if you're using a pizza oven.
Spread the tomato sauce over the dough to within 1 cm of the edges.
Sprinkle with cheese.
This is you pizza, on which the toppings need to be arranged.
Create your own compositions or use the suggestions given earlier.
If you're using a pizza oven, slide the pizza onto the spade as shown
and put it in the oven. Bake for 3 to 5 minutes.
If your oven is the ordinary kind, put the pizza in on a baking sheet.
Get your pizza out before it burns.
Cut it up and enjoy!
Recently I've come into contact with Witek's pizzas
and I think they're just right.
The base was really good, thin and crisp.
They were all very good and they all got eaten!
The pizza was very good. I definitely recommend making one at home.
Witek's recipe is the best...
except for my girlfriend's, of course.
Cookery programme by Witek Z.
Directed and produced by Jerzy Traczyński
Subtitles by Marta Umińska
Now make your pizzas and write comments,
and if you liked your dinner, click thumbs up!
Produced by See Cinema (2012) www.seecinema.pl