The Ultimate Homemade Neapolitan Pizza

Hey everybody today my post will be about creating the ultimate homemade neapolitan pizza. Not only is pizza an all around favorite, but it is also very easy to make. Cooking it at home has become a tradition in my family and making it yourself is always the best touch.

Follow me in Step 1.

Let's Get Started!

Ingredients you will need

Dough - 4 cups flour (king Arthur preferred) - 2 teaspoon yeast - 13 oz/1.6 cups water - 4 teaspoon salt - 1 teaspoon sugar Pizza sauce - 2 tablespoons olive oil - 1 tablespoon butter - 2 cloves minced - 1/2 cup onion chopped - 1/4 cup celery chopped - 6 oz can tomato paste - 8 oz can tomato sauce - 2 tablespoon grated Parmesan - 1 teaspoon oregano - 1 teaspoon dried basil - 1/2 teaspoon salt - 1/2 teaspoon sugar - 1 small bay leaf - 1 teaspoon fennel seed

First you want to make the pizza dough

Warm up water to lukewarm temperature, put half of the water in a cup and add the yeast,mix a little and wait for 5 minutes until it activates and you start to see bubbles.

Next, In a mixing bowl add the flour, salt, sugar, leftover water and slightly mix it,and lastly your mixture of water and yeast.

Mix everything really good and sprinkle flour until you can knead the dough without them sticking to your fingers, rub your hands with olive oil to help prevent the dough from sticking in your hands, this is the most important process, since kneading takes time and also for the yeast and flour to mix together well for a good quality pizza, knead the dough for about 30 minutes for all ingredients to mix well together. Dough should be elastic and slightly sticky. Should look like this!

To prepare the sauce in a hot pan melt the butter and olive oil together, then add garlic onions and celery, sautéed for about 10-15 minutes until vegetables become transparent, after that add tomato sauce and tomato paste and rest of ingredients, simmer for about 15 more minutes and let it rest! Pizza Sauce should look like this! Finally before your pizza should look something like this. You can also add thinly sliced tomatoes for an extra taste(optional). In step 2 I'll talk about how to bake and cook your pizza perfectly!

@sircarlo