DIY - Home Baked Pizza Rolls And Some Flour Tricks

There are many different types of pizza, among which there's this pizza roll, the easiest and the best at the moment for me. A month ago I posted a Homemade Pizza Rolls, today I'm back with another recipe, a different one.

I have my own pizza recipe but from time to time I like to try out new recipes. There are far too many good recipes to stick with just one. After surfing for a few minutes I came across Jamie Oliver's Pizza dough

It seemed interesting enough to try it out. He's using a mix of flour, which is normal, I'm mixing flout all the time but using semolina in a pizza dough is not.

Ingredients
1 kg white bread flour or Tipo '00' flour , or 800g strong white bread flour or Tipo '00' flour, plus 200g finely ground semolina flour.

I love semolina and keep some at home all the time for semolina pudding, plus I'm using it for fruit cakes when the fruits are too wet and also for meatball, but never for pizza. It was about time to try this recipe out, so here's my version.

Ingredients for the dough

200g spelt flour,
100g semolina flour,
700g Tipo '000' flour,
750 ml warm water,
1 tsp salt,
1 tsp sugar,
25g fresh yeast,
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil.

Ingredients for the topping

pizza sauce,
pepperoni,
grated cheese,
oregano,
chopped black olives.

Method

Working with fresh yeast is always better for me, not that dry yeast is not good. Normally for 1kg flour they recommend 50g fresh yeast but I see no point in using that much as half is enough.

So I cut the yeast cube in half and added the other half to 400ml warm water and added 1 tsp sugar, then let it rise in a warm place for 10 minutes.

Put the flour mix in a mixing bowl, add salt, olive oil, then the yeast. Add the rest of the water and knead gently till you get a non-sticky dough. Add more flour if needed.

This is my dough after kneading. I'm usually sprinkling the dough with a little bit of flour before covering and resting.

So cover and let rest at a warm place for an hour, till doubles.

After the dough has doubled, divide the dough in half, roll half out on a floured working surface to get a rectangle.

Spread the pizza sauce out evenly. I'm using my homemade pizza sauce made of home grown vegetables, that's why it looks like that.

Sprinkle with dried oregano, or any other herb you like.

Add pepperoni and chopped olives or whatever you like, ham, sausage, pineapple, vegetables, etc..

Sprinkle with grated cheese, then roll.

Use a plastic cutter and slice.

The thickness of the slices depends on you but as you can see, mine are about 1 inch.

Place the rolls in a baking tray covered with baking paper and bake till it's done. I wish I could tel, you the exact time but my oven is old.

This is so easy, no reason not to try it at home. Make your own pizza and at least you know what you're eating. You won't regret it, I can guarantee that.

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