- Put flour, salt and fat in a large bowl
- Rub the fat into the flour
- Mix yeast and water together
- Add the yeast/water mix to the bowl of dry ingredients and mix with your hands until you have a dough
- Put on a floured surface and knead very lightly for about one minute
- Return it to the bowl and cover with cling film and a tea towel
- Keep it warm - not a problem in Sicily, but it might help to use a blanket or keep it near a radiator
Now make the sauce
- Finely chop your onions and add to a very good glug of olive oil that you have heated in a sauce pan
- Fry until they are translucent
- Add chopped tomatoes (either fresh without skins, or from a tin). Add around a quarter of a tin at a time and heat on a high flame to rapidly reduce the sauce. Keep stirring and be careful not to burn it.
- Add tomato slowly in this way until you have enough sauce to cover your pizza
- If the tomato tastes bitter add some bicarbonate of soda to the pan.
- You may need to use a potato masher take out large lumps of tomato.
- Add salt and pepper to taste
Now roll out and make your Pizzas
- After one hour turn the dough out onto a floured surface and kneed lightly for one minute , return it to the bowl and cover again while you make the pizzas
- Roll out balls of dough to form little pizzas and don't worry about the shape.
- Stud each one with little bits of raw garlic
- Cover with the tomato topping, strong italian cheese - Parmesan or Padano and some basil
- Drizzle on some good quality olive oil and then press the mix gently into the dough
- Cover and leave to rise for another hour
- Bake on at 180 degrees for about 10 minutes