Pizza Dough. Combine the bread flour, sugar, yeast and kosher salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and combine. Combine flour, salt, sugar, and yeast in a large bowl. Mix in oil and warm water.
You'll use the dough hook on your stand mixer to combine the ingredients before. It is best if prepared in advance and refrigerated overnight. This easy pizza dough recipe is the key to making an extraordinary homemade pizza. You can have Pizza Dough using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Pizza Dough
- You need 3 of to 4 Cups of AP flour.
- You need 2 cup of bread flour.
- You need 2 cup of warm water (around 115F).
- You need 2 tbsp of melted butter.
- It's 1/2 tbsp of Olive oil.
- Prepare 2 pinch of Salt.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of sugar.
- You need 1/4 oz of package of dry instant yeast.
We use all-purpose flour because double zero is hard to find. But if you're lucky enough to live near an Italian market or willing to purchase double zero flour online, using this flour will take your crust to the next level. You won't be disappointed with the results! Turn dough out onto a well floured surface.
Pizza Dough step by step
- Put bread flour into a large mixing bowl. Add sugar, salt and yeast to the flour. Stir to combine evenly..
- Combine melted butter and warm water. Pour water mixture into flour mixture and stir by hand with a large spoon. At this point the dough will look more like pancake batter than pizza dough, but continue to stir once combined for a minute or two to really develop those glutens!.
- Stir in (by hand) 2-3 more cups of the AP flour. This should bring the dough to a point where it is kneadable. Use remaining flour to dust a clean, smooth work surface..
- Knead the dough to work in as much flour until the dough is no longer tacky. The outside "skin" will be smooth..
- Divide the dough into the desired number of pizzas. This Recipe makes two large pizzas or four small pizzas. Roll each part of divided dough into balls, coat with olive oil and place each in a seperate large bowl..
- Turn oven on to 350F, but only allow to preheat for one minute then turn the oven off. The idea is to just warm the oven; Not to get it hot. Cover each bowl with a damp towel. Place in the warm oven to rise 2-3 hours or until the dough has doubled in size..
- Flour pizza pans and turn out risen dough on each pan. Be gentle with the dough while spreading it to the edges in the pan keeping it as even as possible. Use a fork to dock the entire dough (except the edges where the crust will be)..
- Preheat oven to 450°F. Bake each dough/crust for 10 minutes without toppings or sauce (yes, i know this is sacreligious to many pizza-philes, but it works for this recipe)..
- Remove crust from oven, add desired sauce and toppings, and return to the oven for another 15 minutes. De-pan the pizzas. Allow pizzas to sit for 5 minutes before slicing (this is the hardest step :) It's a good time to go pour yourself a cold beer)..
Form dough into a round and roll out into a pizza crust shape. The difference between Pizza and Bread dough is Pizza dough is made with a higher protein flour other than that they both use the same ingredients, yeast, flour, salt and water. How to Freeze Pizza Dough Let the dough rise before freezing, then divide the dough into your desired pizza portions, place in airtight freezer bags and freeze. Thank you Martha, my new to go too. This step allows you more schedule flexibility; it also develops the crust's flavor.