1. To make your pizza dough gently warm your water until it reaches body temperature. You can test this by dipping a finger into your water, which should feel neither hot nor cold to the touch. This temperature is ideal for yeast growth.
   Chefs Tip: Water that’s too hot can kill your yeast, and cold water can seriously slow down your proving time.
2. Add your yeast and honey into your warmed water and stir until the honey is dissolved. Set the mixture aside for about 10 minutes or until the mixture starts to foam a bit on the top.
3. Next, add your flour to a large bowl, then pour in your yeast mixture. Knead the mixture together by hand or machine until it just comes together. Then set the dough aside for 10 minutes to rest, which will result in a dough that’s easier to knead and work with.
4. After the dough has rested, knead it by hand (10-15 Minutes) or machine (5-8 minutes in medium speed) until smooth and elastic. You can tell the dough is ready by poking a finger into it. If the indent bounces back, you’re good, if the indent stays you need to keep kneading. If after 5 Minutes of vigorous mixing, the dough is still very sticky on your hands, or not pulling away from the sides of the stand mixer, add in some additional flour a few spoons at a time until the dough is soft, but no longer sticky.
5. Pop the dough into a large container in the fridge (as it will expand despite the cold temperature) and allow it to prove slowly for 24-48 hours (I am a huge fan of the texture and taste of 48-hour dough).
6. Next, make your pizza sauce. This can be done in advance when making your dough, or it can be done on the day of cooking.
7. Place a pot over medium-high heat. Add the sliced onion and garlic and cook until the onions are soft and lightly golden brown. Add the tinned tomatoes, then swirl a bit of water into the can and add this to the pot too. Simmer the sauce on medium heat for at least 30 minutes, ideally up to 1 hour if you have the time. Once ready, blend the sauce until smooth and set aside until needed. The final sauce should be thick and rich. If it feels a bit too loose, reduce the sauce for 5 minutes on a medium heat.

On the day of cooking:

1. Remove the dough from the fridge and divide the dough into 3 (if your pans are smaller than 25cm, make smaller dough balls).
2. The next part is pretty simple but best explained with visual aids. Simply click here for a helpful video and click through until you get to the pizza shaping stage.
3. Shape the dough by hand into taught balls, then place them on a well-floured tray, or a large plastic container, covered in either plastic wrap  or the container lid to prove until doubled in size. This will take about 1-2 hours depending on the temperature of your home. Click here to watch me shape my dough balls, to ensure the best rise.
4. About 30 minutes before your dough is done, place your pizza stone/cast iron pan into the oven about 10cm below the grill element and turn on the grill to the highest setting.
5. When the oven is ready, place one dough ball onto a lightly floured surface. Working from the centre outwards, dimple the dough with grouped pointed fingers, so the air-pockets move to the crust. Be exceptionally careful in all the stages not to squash or manhandle the crust area or it will lose aeration.
6. Once the dough is starting to look like an overweight frisbee, place your right hand into the flat area in the middle to anchor the dough in place. With your left hand, in the 9 o’clock position gently lift the crust and stretch the dough away from the right hand (Now we are not trying to stretch the crust, but the central part where the filling will go). Turn the pizza 90 degrees and repeat until you have a nicely stretched base the same size as your pizza stone/cast iron pan.
7. Gather your pizza toppings. Remove the pizza stone cast iron from the oven (the extreme heat from these can crack kitchen surfaces and scorch fabric so be super careful!).
8. Working super quickly, drape the pizza into the cast iron pan, smear over a little sauce (too much will weigh down the base, making it soggy) and top with cheese, before returning the pan to the oven as quickly as you can manage.
9. Cook the pizza on grill at the highest setting until the cheese has melted and the crust is golden brown. In my oven, this took only 4 minutes, but times will vary from oven to oven.
10. Remove your pizza from the oven and (ideally) serve immediately. Return the cast iron/pizza stone to the oven for 5 minutes to get scorching hot again, before repeating the process with the remaining dough.

Happy cooking!