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This perfect pizza dough recipe gives you a crust that is crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside for the perfect slice of pizza!
Why You’ll Love This Recipie
What is pizza without the pizza crust? This is the pizza crust recipe that we have been using for years. The crust can make or break the pizza. This recipe is perfect for a medium thickness of crust, not too thin and not too thick. And crisp on the bottom. No soggy crust! This pizza dough recipe is perfect for making just such a crust.
I grew up in the midwest, an hour north of Chicago in a very Italian town. We had lots of amazing pizza restaurants and I ate a lot of amazing pizza. Over the years I have come to learn a thing or two about making great pizza crust. And I am going to share my tips with you.
Ingredients
- Bread Flour
- Yeast
- Sugar
- Olive Oil
- Kosher Salt
- Warm Water
How To Make Pizza Dough
- Combine yeast and sugar with warm water and allow to sit for 5-10 minutes until bubbly
- Add flour, salt, and olive oil into the yeast mixture and knead until smooth. It will still be a little sticky.
- Allow dough to rise for at least one hour. Longer is better.
To Bake:
- Place pizza stone in the oven and preheat to 450 degrees. You want to do this about 30 minutes before the pizza goes into the oven. You want that stone nice and hot!
- Cover pizza paddle with a light layer of cornmeal. If you do not have a pizza paddle, you can use the backside of a baking sheet.
- Roll out dough.
- Add sauce and desired toppings to dough. I highly recommend my homemade pizza sauce. It goes great with just about any topping.
- Slide pizza onto hot pizza stone.
- Bake for 10 – 12 minutes, until edges are golden brown.
Tips
- Let the dough rise for at least an hour. A couple of hours won’t hurt either. I’ve even been known to let it rise for most of the day!
- Use bread flour. All purpose flour will work, but it will not give you the same results.
- If you enjoy making homemade pizza, a wooden paddle and a pizza stone are must have items.
- Put a light coating of cornmeal onto the pizza paddle before you roll out your dough. It helps prevent the dough from sticking and gives it a great texture.
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Pizza Dough Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 C warm water
- 3 tsp yeast
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 4 C bread flour
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven and pizza stone to 450 degrees
- Combine yeast and sugar with warm water and allow to sit for 5-10 minutes until bubbly
- Add flour, salt, and olive oil into the yeast mixture and knead until smooth, but a little sticky. Approximately 5 minutes with a stand mixer or 10 minutes by hand.
- Allow dough to rise for at least one hour.
- Cover pizza paddle or backside of a cookie sheet with a light layer of cornmeal.
- Roll out dough. (You may need to add a little extra flour.)
- Add sauce and desired toppings. Slide pizza onto hot pizza stone. Bake for 10 – 12 minutes, until edges are golden brown.
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Donna says
This by far was the best tasting pizza dough — bread flour is the way to go!
While making this I found the dough to be really dry, it worked my Kitchenaid so hard the bowl lifted from its moorings. I’m wondering if the water should be 1 1/3 or 1 1/2 cups. If you can advise I would appreciate it.
Thanks for the most tasty pizza dough ever!
Katherine Hallsten says
The water to flour ratio is off. I think it needs to be 1 1/2 c. warm water if you are going to add 4 cups flour.
Leigh Anne says
Did you make the recipe and find the quantities were off?