Easy Pizza Dough Recipe
A great pizza starts with a great dough and homemade pizza dough is pretty easy to make.
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Ingredients
- 10 ounces warm water (1 ¼ cups)
- 2 ¼ teaspoons instant dry yeast (1 packet or 7g)
- 15 ounces unbleached bread flour (3 cups, see note)
- 1 teaspoon table salt
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- cornmeal
Instructions
- In a mixer bowl combine the water, yeast and 1½ cups of the flour and mix until it looks like pancake batter. Cover the bowl and set aside for 30 minutes.10 ounces warm water, 2 ¼ teaspoons instant dry yeast, 15 ounces unbleached bread flour
- If using a stand mixer, switch to the dough hook.
- Add the salt and olive oil. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the remaining flour. The dough will begin to clear the sides of the bowl and gather on the hook. If mixing by hand continue with a spoon or spatula until the dough becomes too thick then turn the dough out onto a floured surface and finish kneading in the flour by hand.1 teaspoon table salt, 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Increase the speed to medium and knead for 3-4 minutes or knead by hand for 5-6 minutes. Dump the dough onto a floured surface and knead into a smooth ball.
- Place the dough into a lightly oiled bowl and turn it over to coat the surface. Cover the bowl and leave in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 1 to 1½ hours.
- If you're baking the pizza in the oven, preheat it to 450 °F. If you have a pizza stone preheat that too.
- Dump the dough onto a floured surface, do not knead out the air. Using a bench scraper or sharp knife, cut the dough into 2 equal pieces.
- Gently form each piece into a ball by tucking the sides under the dough. Cover the dough balls and leave them rest for 20 minutes.
- Visit this post to see how to shape pizza dough by hand.
- Place each pizza round onto a wooden peel, pizza pan or baking sheet sprinkled heavily with corn meal.cornmeal
- Finish with your choice of toppings and proceed to bake or grill.
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Notes
If measuring the flour by volume use the “dip & sweep” method. That is, dip the measuring cup into the flour bin, overfill it, then sweep away the excess.
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