Pizza Dough. Combine the bread flour, sugar, yeast and kosher salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and combine. This easy pizza dough recipe is the key to making an extraordinary homemade pizza. We use all-purpose flour because double zero is hard to find.
Combine flour, salt, sugar, and yeast in a large bowl. Mix in oil and warm water. Spread out on a large pizza pan. You can cook Pizza Dough using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Pizza Dough
- You need 3 cup of Flour.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of Salt.
- You need 2 tsp of Olive oil.
- You need 1 packages of Active dry yeast.
- It's 3/4 cup of Water.
Thank you Martha, my new to go too. The ingredients in this homemade pizza dough recipe include bread flour, sugar, dry yeast, salt, water and olive oil. 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.
Pizza Dough instructions
- Prepare yeast as directed on package.
- As yeast is foaming, mix flour and salt in large bowl.
- Add yeast mixture, olive oil, and water to flour mixture. Stir with spoon until it begins to clump.
- Knead dough for 2 minutes (or more) until it forms a ball and doesn't stick to the bowl. Add flour and/or water as needed to achieve the right consistency.
- Lightly flour bottom of bowl and ball of dough then cover with a towel and let rise in a warm place for at least 1 hour.
- You can then wrap it in cling wrap and double bag it to freeze it for later use or use it for pizzas, calzones, etc.
Turn dough out onto a well floured surface. Form dough into a round and roll out into a pizza crust shape. Dark, heavy metal pans are the best to use because they absorb heat quickly and evenly and will produce a crisp, golden browned crust. Skip store-bought, frozen pizza and make this pizza dough recipe from scratch. Tackling it yourself may seem daunting at first, but making your pizza base at home is economical, fun, and healthy since you control the ingredients.