HUNTINGTON, New York Pizza has been a family affair for Marciano Cipriano since he was 14-years-old. Capriano would make pizzas in his backyard with his father when they built their own brick pizza oven.
As Cipriano grew older, he wanted to level up, which eventually led him to his International retro-fitted pizza truck. Jennifer, his wife, met him when he was first putting the truck together and, ever since pizza has become their passion.
When the pandemic hit in March, they shut down their truck due to CDC safety guidelines.
The Cipriano s, starting brainstorming on ideas to keep their hungry customers happy as well as safe during this time of quarantine.
· 150mls warm water (think baby bath temperature)
· 1 tsp white sugar (1p)
· 7g sachet fast action dried yeast (11p)
· 225g plain flour plus 50g for dusting and kneading (11p)
· 1 ½ tsp table salt (1p)
· 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, plus extra for greasing (17p)
· 125g mozzarella, drained weight (£1.13) (NB: recipe states 70g but this isn’t enough)
· 1 heaped tablespoon of passata (10p)
· Pinch of dried oregano (1p)
· Black pepper (2p)
Holly broke down the cost of each of the supermarket ingredients (pictured)
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 230C/gas mark 8. It might seem really early to put the oven on, but the secret to great pizza at home is a super-hot oven, properly preheated.