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New pizza dough recipe!

Yes, after many years of using the pizza recipe I found in Puglia (southern Italy), I dared to change it. And it’s great! The dough can be rolled out much thinner and gets crusty, even in a normal electric oven. Here we use this pizza dough recipe every time. It’s still easy and fast, and you can make it in advance and store it in the freezer. The big difference is we not only use tipo 00 flour, but Read the rest of this entry »

Healthy Afghan yogurt sauce

Here’s something good from Afghanistan, this easy recipe for a low calorie, but tasty, yogurt sauce. Eat with lamb meat, bread or even with fries, instead of mayonnaise.

Ingredients:

• 250 ml (8.5 fl.oz.) Greek, Turkish or Bulgar yogurt, preferably the Greek yogurt from Total with 0% fat(!)
• About 8 pièces of garlic
• 50 gram (1.8 oz.) of fresh dill
• A few spoons of olive oil

Chop the garlic and dill in very small pieces and put them in a bowl together with the yogurt and olive oil. Add some black pepper and stir well. You can add some more dill and garlic according to taste.

Great with Lebanese bread or Turkish kofte!

Buon appetito!

Pizza Gorgonzola recipe with dough from tipo 00 flour

Follow this recipe and you will bake your own true Italian pizza gorgonzola in just a few minutes, when you’ve the dough made in advance. For the pizza dough, use tipo 00 flour for best results. You can make the pizza dough about one hour in advance, but for even better results you make it a day before and let it rise in the refrigerator. Tip: after the pizza dough has been in the refrigerator for a day, you can put it in the freezer perfectly and use it at a later time!

Ingredients for the dough:

• 250 gram (8.8 oz.) of flour (only use tipo 00!)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon yeast (fresh or dried, when fresh use half a teaspoon)
• 140 milliliters (4.7 fl.oz.) of hand warm water
• olive oil (extra virgin) according to taste, at least 2 spoons

Start kneading all the ingredients till an elastic ball emerges. Divide it into 2 balls. Let it rise for about 2 hours in a warm and moist place. For even better results, let it rise for a day in the refrigerator. Put some extra water or olive oil in the bowl before you put it away. Read the rest of this entry »