I love pizza! I will never forget the taste of real Italian pizza when on holidays in Italy. The Italian holidays are long gone but I still crave really good pizza.
I had been trying to make delicious homemade pizza dough for ages but whatever I did it kinda never worked for me. Well, then one day I came across Jamie Oliver’s pizza dough recipe with dried yeast ().
I liked it and tried to make it. And guess what? It didn’t end up well either. Don’t get me wrong, the pizza was nice. Boyfriend liked it. But I still wasn’t happy about the crust. I found it too hard and quite dry so I had tried again changing the quantities, then adjusting the time, oven temperature… And one day I finally succeeded in making a perfect homemade pizza!
The main problem was my oven and so I needed to reduce the time and changed the temperature a bit! Even though the crust doesn’t get this really nice brown colour, I know I cannot leave it inside for more than 12 minutes!
So there you go. Never give up, try over and over again until you get it right! Oh, and maybe your oven is also different from mine so maybe it will need more time in your oven…but try with 12 minutes first. There’s always an option of putting it in for longer rather than having a dried out pizza.
So here it is! Finally! A pizza dough recipe with dried yeast based on Jamie Oliver’s recipe with minor changes: