If there’s one complaint I hear most often from foreigners living in Korea time and time again, it’s about the pizza. Many don’t think that the nation makes a good pizza. I disagree and think the pizza here is just about as good as you’ll find back home. However, if you think you can do better, then I suggest you try! In today’s post, I’m going to share with you a simple recipe and teach you how to make pizza — from scratch.

To get started, you’re going to need  a few things:

• 1.5 cups all purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon active dry yeast
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cups water
• cheese
• tomato sauce
• toppings
• butter/cooking spray/shortening

QiRanger’s Korean Pizza

Step 1 – Place 1.5 cups of all purpose flour in a bowl.

Step 2- Add 1/8 teaspoon active dry yeast.

Step 3 – Add 3/4 teaspoon salt.

Step 4 – Give everything a good mix to distribute the flour, salt, and yeast. This takes 10 seconds at best.

Step 5 – Add 3/4 Cups of water.

Step 6 – With the water added, reach in and mix again. It takes about 15-30 seconds to successfully create a dough. Once the substance has that dough look and feel – you’re done!

If when looking at your bowl, your eyes see this… STOP!

Step 7 – Set the bowl aside and cover for 12 hours. YES, 12 hours at least. This is a no knead recipe, so the yeast needs time to work its magic. You can let the dough form more than 12 hours, but for pizza dough, I’ve found that 12-14 hours is best.

After 12 hours, the dough will look like the above and it’s time to assemble your toppings. While you’re doing so, preheat your oven to 204C.

I said this was going to be a Korean pizza and what better way to showcase that than with a little kimchi and SPAM!

Step 8 – Take the baking tray from toaster oven and grease it up! I use butter, but lard, shortening, cooking spray can all be used.

Step 9 – Take your dough and stretch/press it into the baking pan.

Step 10 – Add your tomato sauce. You can use a much or as little as you like.

Step 11 – Add cheese and your other toppings!

SPAMtastic!

Cooking with Kimchi!

Step 12 – Baking! Place your pizza into the oven for about 20 minutes. The actual cooking time will vary based on how think the toppings are, so it may take a little longer if you really packed on the goodies.

Step 13 – When the pizza has finished cooking, pull it out of the oven and let it rest for 5 minutes. If you used butter on your pan, it should pop out easily.

Step 14 – Cut and serve.

The baking pan used in this example measures about 30cm by 20cm, making it the perfect size for a single pizza. I usually divide the pizza into six slices and devour the whole thing. This recipe works easily with just about any toppings, and believe it or not, the spam/kimchi pizza tastes pretty damn good.

What do you like on your pizza?

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