RECIPES: Universal Yeast Dough

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

Say no to dry and tasteless supermarket pizza blanks with this simple universal dough recipe. In addition to pizza, it can also be used to make buns, focaccia, pies and other yeast-based pastries. If you do not have time to use all the dough at once, then it will calmly live for another three days in the refrigerator or for three whole months in the freezer.

Ingredients:

• 275 ml of milk;
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 40 g fresh yeast;
• 500 g flour;
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon of vinegar;
• 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.

The preparation of any yeast dough always begins with diluting the yeast in a warm liquid. In our case, in warm milk. A small amount of sugar is preliminarily bred in it.

We use fresh yeast in this recipe, but you can also replace it with dry instant yeast. For the above amount of ingredients, you need 7 g of dry yeast.

Leave the yeast solution warm for 10 minutes to activate, and sift the flour yourself.

After sifting, mix it with the rest of the dry ingredients from the list: salt and baking powder.

In the allotted 10 minutes, an impressive foam cap will appear on the yeast solution - a sure sign that the yeast has begun to be active.

Pour in the yeast solution to the flour, followed by vinegar and vegetable oil.

Stir until the dough gathers in a lump.

The finished dough can be rolled out and shaped into products immediately, just let them stand warm for another 20 minutes before baking.

For those who intend to prepare yeast dough for future use, we recommend greasing it with oil and putting it in a bag, removing all the air and tying it tightly.