Adding butter to pizza recipe
I like to experiment with my pizza recipe, and I love the taste of butter. Right now my pizza dough recipe is something like this:
2 cups of flour
3/4 cup of water
1 ts of yeast
2 ts of honey
1 spoon of olive oil
...if I remember correctly.
How and when can I add butter to this?
Or is it better to add it to the sauce?
Best Answer
You won't get a buttery taste from adding butter to the dough. Even in fat-rich batters like pound cake, the difference between butter and a neutral fat is subtle - it is there, but it doesn't taste like biting into a buttered toast. And in a pizza, you can't add such amounts of fat to the dough, because it will interfere with gluten production, resulting in the wrong dough texture.
If you are prebaking the pure base at some point, putting butter on top of it will give you some buttery taste. But most pizza recipes call for immediate baking with the sauce, if not toppings, without prebaking the naked base (the exception is made for baking thick-crusted pizza in a regular, low-temp oven).
Putting butter in the sauce is also an option, but it will tend to be quite overwhelmed by the tomatoes. In general, a sour taste masks fats well, and a tomato sauce is sour.
I think that your best bet is to use some toppings which remain above the cheese, and put pieces of butter on them the moment you get the pizza outside, or, if they are crustable, in the last 5 minutes of baking. This will create small patches of melted butter with a distinctive flavour. If you do it on the cheese, it will mix with the cheese fat, and make it too greasy, so toppings above the cheese should function better.
The last option is to cheat and use butter aroma - this is what many commercial bread producers use. I wouldn't do that, because I am able to distinguish it for the real thing, but many people seem to be happy with it.
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What happens when you add butter to pizza dough?
But add a little butter to that dough and you can make a pizza with flaky, buttery layers. It's an extra-special treat to perk up your weeknight. To make those flaky layers, you roll the dough out, spread on a few tablespoons of softened butter and then fold the dough into thirds over itself.Do you need butter for pizza dough?
Sugar \u2014 This is food for they yeast and helps it foam up. Melted Butter \u2014 this adds a lot of flavour and makes our crust extra buttery! Flour \u2014 I used unbleached all-purpose flour, but you can use bread flour or even whole wheat flour for a healthier version.Can I use butter instead of oil for pizza dough?
So, when replacing oil with shortening, one would use an equal amount of shortening as oil, but if replacing oil with butter or margarine, one would need to use 20 percent (1/5) more butter/margarine than oil to retain the same overall fat content.How to Add Flavor to Pizza Dough Recipe #1
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Answer 2
I would avoid putting it in the dough as it will change the texture. I'd simply make sure I had plenty of 'bare' crust, then after cooking, brush it with softened salted butter. For extra flavor I'd mix the butter with minced garlic and dried oregano first.
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