Wolfgang Puck's Pizza Dough Recipe - Pizza Dough - Pizza

hello this is chef john from food wishes comm with wolfgang puck's pizza dough recipe his famous california pizza dough and you know Wolfgang Puck he's that chef that's always doing the Arnold Schwarzenegger impression Wolfgang recently let me publish this on my American food site on about.com so I'm gonna show you how to make it really really easy and really nice dough I was impressed so you can start with one package of dry active yeast a teaspoon of honey I'm using sage honey you use any honey you want a quarter cup of warm water like really warm like 105 degrees very important it's warm give it a stir let it dissolve for 10 minutes then we're gonna add our salt olive oil 3/4 of a cup of equally warm water 105 degrees and a cup of flour you're gonna stir that up it's going to become a batter we're going to add another cup of flour stir that in and then we're going to add even more flour so this is going to get about three cups total but what we're going to do is we're gonna add two and a half cups at this point it's going to get too thick to stir and then you're gonna move to the board and maybe knead in the rest of the flour so when it gets too annoying to stir so you're right there you're like god this is so annoying then you're going to turn it out onto the board you're gonna sprinkle maybe a quarter cup of flour down and then you're gonna need this with the traditional kneading submission it with your palm method for about five minutes till they have a smooth fairly firm but nice and smooth slightly very slightly sticky dough so this took just about all three cups all right so two and a half cups went into the actual dough in the bowl and then I kept kneading it and you see it actually picked up all the flour on the board so it was just about three cups of flour you got to play Bayer but there we go a nice smooth fairly firm dough a little bit of olive oil in a bowl just rinse out the bowl you mixed it in all right coat it with olive oil just a little bit put a damp towel over it and let it sit in a warm place I turn the oven on for about five minutes turned it off so it was nice and warm it's gonna go a half-hour to 40 minutes it's gonna basically almost double in size all right and that looks pretty good turn it out onto your floured cutting board Pat it down with your hand that deflates it and we're gonna make 4 small pizzas with this so I'm going to cut in four pieces now the last step here I'm going to do this twice for you take one of those quarters and just keep folding the outsides down and under and the top kind of stretches out so you're just kind of going around you're folding up underneath you do that about six or seven times and that's ready alright one more time take a piece okay you're kind of turning it you can use your fingertips or your palms you're just kind of stretching it down and under and then tucking it up underneath anyway just watch that a few times it's not that hard we're gonna put those on a tray alright we're going to cover that with a towel and let that sit in a warm place for 20 minutes to a half-hour and then you're ready to make pizza now what you want to do here put it down on a lightly floured board start in the center with your fingertips and just kind of keep pressing out this is only gonna get about you know eight or ten inches wide but that'll make a nice kind of rim around the edge you get that kind of signature California Pizza look alright so I just kept stretching pull and you can roll it if you want there's not a big difference if you roll it alright pizza makers get all upset if you roll it so stretch it out and we're going around the edge of my fingertip to kind of make that crush shape now it goes on a cornmeal pan all right pan with a good amount of cornmeal brush it with some extra virgin olive oil all right that kind of seals the pizza from the sauce we're gonna put sauce on but not too much just a couple tablespoons spread it around a very light shaking of red pepper flakes for me and then here's where you gotta just control yourself a very light cheesing a little bit of mozzarella a little bit of fontina and I just did a really light sprinkling of parmesan and then you put it whatever other toppings you want here I didn't have any other toppings so I'm just making a cheese pizza it's going to go on the bottom of a 450 degree oven for five minutes alright after five minutes move it to the middle rack of your oven for another four five minutes until it looks like that I should have a pizza stone but I don't but it actually works nice on the bottom of the oven the bottom gets really crispy and then I tried this Wolfgang I got to hand it to you buddy that's a good pizza dough okay so it was kind of chewy very tender you this works if you roll it out really thin it works if you like a thicker pizza crust up to you so anyway that's Wolfgang Puck's California pizza dough the extra pizza dough just putting ziplock bags you can keep it two or three days in the fridge I hope you give it a try all the amounts are on the site and as always enjoy hasta la vista baby

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Id: lz8HlqYn98Q

Length: 5min 13sec (313 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 23 2009