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Pizza Express dough balls

Pizza Express release the recipe for their dough balls so you can recreate them at home while their restaurants are shut.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Proving time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings: 6
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: British
Calories: 229
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

For the dough balls
  • 225 g plain flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 7 g packet of dried active yeast
  • 1 tsp caster sugar
  • 150 ml warm water
For the garlic butter
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 4 tbsp butter
  • ½ tsp garlic

Method
 

Measure the dry ingredients
  1. Measure out the flour and add it to a large mixing bowl or free-standing mixer.
  2. In different sides of the bowl add the salt, sugar and yeast.
Make the dough
  1. Measure out 150ml of warm water.
  2. If you're using a free-standing mixer, add the dough hook, and turn it on at a low speed. Slowly pour the water in. Let the dough hook mix it all together then let it knead it for 5 minutes.
  3. If you are mixing this in a mixing bowl, make a well in the middle of the flour and slowly pour the water in. Using spoon, slowly mix it all together. Once it's all come together, tip it out on a lightly floured work surface, then knead it for 5-10 minutes.
Form the dough balls
  1. Split the dough into 16 equal amounts (or more if you want more, smaller dough balls.) If your kids are quite young it's best to divide them yourself.
  2. Roll each piece of dough into a ball and put them onto a baking tray.
  3. Cover the baking tray loosely with oiled cling film and leave the doug balls to rise for half an hour.
Make the garlic butter
  1. While the dough balls are proving/rising make the garlic butter. Measure the oil into a small dish. Crush the garlic (roughly one large clove), and add it to the oil. Mix it together so it forms a paste.
  2. Measure the butter out, then pour the oil and garlic over the top. Blend it together with a spoon. Set it aside for now.
Bake the dough balls
  1. Preheat your oven to 230C / 210C Fan / 440F
  2. Bake your dough balls for 6-10 minutes. They're ready when they've turned a nice golden brown colour and sound hollow when you tap them underneath.
  3. Leave the dough balls to cool slightly then serve with the garlic butter.