Super Bowl Sunday is on. The game starts in about 5½ hours and I will not even have time to shop after work to get home in time. So no cooking for Kingly Foods today! Instead I pulled out some great recipes from the archive that suits the occasion perfectly!

From the left: Pico de Gallo, Honey Soy Wings & Pizza!

Enjoy the game!

Its a fairly simple recipe :)

(This recipe easily serve 4-6 people)

Ingredients:
3 cups of bread flour
1 package of dry active yeast (the recipe I did said 1/4 oz but I used 5/16 oz no noticeable difference)
2 tablespoons of oil (I prefer using olive oil)
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
1 cup warm water (for the yeast)

How I did it:
First I mixed the flour, sugar and salt together in a big bowl. Separately I mixed together the warm water and yeast. When the yeast had fully dissolved I put it into the flour mix and added the two tablespoons of olive oil and mixed it around until it was a smooth ball of dough (I also added some extra olive oil when the ball was done, in my experience pizza dough has always been shiny with grease and that’s how I will continue to have it) Cover up the bowl with a towel or even plastic wrap and let rise for about 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 375 F.

Dump the ball of dough on a smooth surface, like a big table (or in my case a bar) and work the dough around a little bit. Add tidy bits of flour if still sticky. Start flattening it out to a pizza shape or if you’re doing it in a pan just put it in a pan and flatten it out to the corners. Here I tried to be Luigi and toss my pizza but I will not do that again, I failed miserably – its a lot harder than it looks!

When pizza was flattened out and in place I added my toppings. I chose not to make a “traditional” pizza but more of a “Me” pizza, so I added tomato sauce on bottom. Onions, shrimp and jalapeños on top of that. A LOT of mozzarella cheese and lastly some mushrooms and salami.

Place in the middle of oven for about 20-25 minutes (until cheese turns golden brown is a good indicator for you who forget time)

I must say this was my most delicious creation yet, although it might just have to do with my pizza craving growing bigger over the past few months.

Starting out: This dough was crazy to make. I made things a bit out of order and it messed me up a little bit. Start with boiling about 2 cups of milk, as soon as brought to a boil take it off the burner and set aside until luke warm (you don’t want the milk to be so hot it kills the yeast) while the milk is cooling down, mix the yeast in finger hot (its a Swedish saying, around 37-45 degrees Celsius) water, about half a cup of water. Crack four eggs into a big bowl (the primary mixing bowl) and add one cup of sugar. Also melt half a cup of butter.

The mix: Mix the eggs and sugar until smooth and yellow. Add the milk. The yeast and about 2 cups of bread flour. Mix until batter is smooth. Add another 3 cups of flour and beat really well. The dough should be really smooth and almost glossy. Add the melted butter, mix it in well and add the rest of the flour. Mix around until once again smooth, glossy and not sticky.

The 1st rise: Put the dough on a floured surface and put the bowl on top of it for about 15 minutes for a small rise. While doing so, slightly grease another bowl.

Kneading: After letting it rise for 15 minutes take off the bowl and start kneading it. Knead it until you feel its done yourself. I kneaded my dough for about 5-10 minutes.

The 2nd rise: Drop down the dough into the lightly greased bowl and put a towel over the bowl and let rise for about one hour. The dough will rise to the double or more ^^

Beat it: After one hour of rising, beat it down again really well and cover up for a third rise.

The making: After risen to almost double again take dough out on floured surface and split into 3. Split each slice into another 3. You should have 9 little balls of dough now. Roll them out to foot long little rolls and braid them. Or you could roll 1/3 out and spread butter, vanilla and cinnamon on it. Slice longways and roll up to little buns. When done with the braids and/or buns put them on (what I prefer) wax paper on a long pan.

The last rise: Let rise for 20 minutes under the towels. When risen, crack an egg and brush the top and sprinkle with some sugar.

Baking it: Put in the middle of the oven on 375-400 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for approximately 25-30 minutes. Make sure you didn’t get any sugar on the wax paper, it will melt and burn the bottom of your bread -_-

Overall this took me about 4 hours and made everyone smile. I wont say that this is as easy as it sounds but its definitely not hard. Takes alot of time and patience though, and cleaning :P