Paper thin pizza

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• 1 cups flour
• ¾ tsp active dry yeast
• ¼ tsp active dry yeast
• ¼ tsp salt
• ½ oz olive oil
• ⅜ cup water (lukewarm)

• fork
• bowl

For the pizza dough: Mix dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Incorporate wet ingredients and mix them with a fork. Mix them with your hand, and after a minute turn onto a lightly floured surface.

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Knead the dough for 8 minutes, until it’s smooth and springy to the touch. Turn it into a ball. Grease the bowl with a bit of olive oil, put the dough in the bowl and turn to coat it with the oil.

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Cover the bowl with cling wrap and a towel, and leave it to rest for 1 hour in a warm, draft-free place.

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• ¼ tsp salt
• ½ cup tomato purée (passata)
• ½ tbsp olive oil
• 1 cloves garlic (grated)
• ⅛ cup Parmesan cheese (grated)
• ⅛ tsp pepper
• ¼ tsp salt

For the sauce: mix the ingredients in a small bowl, and let them rest at room temperature while the dough rises.

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• pastry cutter

Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface. Punch out the air, and cut into 4 pieces. Turn each piece into a ball, coat with a little spray oil, and let rest for 20 minutes covered with cling wrap.

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• pizza stone

Put a pizza stone into the oven, and preheat to 500F.

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• ⅜ cup mozzarella cheese

• parchment paper
• rolling pin
• fork

Cut a rectangle of parchment paper. Put one ball of dough on it, and roll it until it’s 2 mm thick at most. Leave the pizza on parchment at all times. The shape doesn’t matter much; you can make into an irregular oval. Prick the dough all over with a fork. Distribute 1/4 of the sauce onto the dough evenly, and cover lightly with mozzarella. You don’t want to put much sauce or cheese on the pizza, or it won’t be crispy.

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• pizza paddle

Using a pizza paddle, transfer pizza onto the stone, and bake for 6 minutes or until the edges are nicely charred. If you don’t have a stone and paddle, put pizza on a pizza pan and bake.

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• 2 leaves basil

• pizza paddle

Take pizza out of the oven, sprinkle with julienned basil, and cut into 8 semi rectangular pieces. One person can eat a whole pizza, or if you want it as a snack, two people can eat it. Enjoy!