The secret's in the dough
The most important part of a pizza is the dough. While its ingredients are simple, the actual process is hard to master. Here's some advice from pizza chefs
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MAKING a pizza is basically baking bread, except you add tomatoes and cheese on top, says chef Mathieu Palombino, who runs Motorino - a brand of pizzerias that originated in New York and just opened here in Singapore.
"Bread-making can be a very simple thing. You mix flour, water, and yeast, and technically you have bread. But making a good piece of bread, that's a whole other world," he adds.
When it comes to pizza bread, also called the crust, it should be "dramatic-looking", and "a very long-fermented dough gets that dramatic and rustic look after being cooked, especially in a good wood-fired oven," says Chef Palombino.
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