Recipe: Yummy Pizza dough with beer

Pizza dough with beer. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl and mix thoroughly. Pour in the beer and mix well. Spread a handful of flour on your work surface and dump the dough onto it.

While no one would deny the inherently complementary nature of the two fermented wonders, some brewpubs are taking the pairing a step further. It's amazing and adding the beer to the dough turns out a delicious thin crispy pizza crust every single time. And don't worry, the alcohol evaporates as you bake the pizza dough. You can have Pizza dough with beer using 6 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pizza dough with beer

1. Prepare 6 cup of bread flour.
2. You need 1 tbsp of sugar.
3. Prepare 2 tsp of salt.
4. Prepare 1 packages of yeast.
5. You need 3 tbsp of olive oil.
6. It's 2 1/4 cup of your favorite beer.

If you prefer a recipe without alcohol, please check out the traditional pizza dough recipe that we also enjoy. The beer adds just a hint of fragrence and flavor in this quick pizza dough. We found this great recipe in the King Arthur Catalog. Another great one from King Arthur Flour.

Pizza dough with beer step by step

1. Warm beer to lukewarm.
2. Add sugar and yeast to be and let stand for 10 minutes.
3. In separate bowl mix 2 cups flour, salt, oil.
4. Add beer mixture and mix until smooth.
5. Add additional flour 1 cup at a time until dough is soft and leaves the sides of the bowl.
6. Place dough on a lightly floured surface and knead for 5-6 minutes.
7. Cover and let rise for 1 hour..
8. Preheat oven to 400.
9. Ball dough into desired sizes and roll..
10. Sprinkle pizza pan with cornmeal and place dough on top.
11. Top pizza with your favorite toppings.
12. (Optional) if you like a crisper crust you can bake the dough 10 minutes before topping. I like to do this but just remember as you are topping that it is hot... Gets me every time..
13. Bake for 15-20 minutes. If you like a lot of toppings it will take longer..

We modified it a bit to match the things we have in our pantry. Please note that the prep time includes the rising time for the dough. When we visit my in-laws in Connecticut, we really enjoy making pizza together. It's a family affair, with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law making the dough, all the kids and I joining in to shape the pizzas and add toppings, and my husband, brothers-in-law and father-in-law working the brick oven. As a matter of fact, pizza has it's very own tab (to the far right) on the secondary navigation menu bar on CatholicFoodie.com.