Making pizza
Microorganisms exist all around us and inside us and some are beneficial to us and some are not. In this experiment you will see the effect introducing the microorganism yeast has on pizza dough.
You will need:
- 1 ½ cup plain flour
- ½ tspn salt
- 3 tspns sugar
- 2 tbspns olive oil
- ½ cup water
- 1 ½ tspns dried yeast
And for the filling:
- Chocolate and bananas.
And last but not least ... a helping hand from an adult.
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Method
Mix the flour, salt, sugar, water and olive oil to make dough. Leave aside 1/3rd of the dough and flatten the rest into a round pancake shape and bake in a medium oven for 15 mins. When ready take out of the oven and leave to cool. This is your unleavened pizza base.
While the base is cooling, take the remaining dough and add the dried yeast to it.
When you take the pizza base out of the oven you should find that the shapes filled in with the new dough batch have risen because of the yeast to give the pizza a clear pattern ( for example a funny face).
Now add the chocolate and bananas and enjoy!!
REMEMBER: Ask your mother’s permission to use the kitchen and remember to clean up afterwards or you‘ll be sorry!