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Homemade Pizza Dough
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Pizza Dough

Making pizza dough is not as difficult as you might think. Just a few basic ingredients to create this lovely dough that can be used for pizza, calzones, stromboli and more.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Passive Time1 hour
Servings: 2 pizzas
Author: Bea & Marco

Ingredients

Pizza dough:

  • 1 ¼ cup warm water
  • 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
  • 1 sachet dry yeast (7 gr)
  • 3 ½ cup bread flour
  • 2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoon olive oil

Pizza topping:

  • ½ cup no-cook pizza sauce
  • 1 - 1 ½ cup shredded pizza cheese mix (mozzarella, cheddar, edam)
  • dry oregano

Instructions

  • In a bowl, add in warm water, sugar and dry yeast. Mix all together and set aside for the yeast to get foamy, around 3-5 minutes
  • In a mixing bowl, add in flour, salt, olive oil and the yeast mixture. Mix to incorporate everything and then knead for 10 minutes. You can do this by hand also, just knead until the dough is smooth, around 15-20 minutes.
  • Form the dough into a ball and place in a greased container. Coat the dough with some oil to prevent crust from forming. Cover tightly with cling film and let it rise to double in size in a warm and draft free place.
  • Divide the dough into 2 and form into disks. Flour your work surface and place 1 disk. Flatten and strech the dough to 28 cm diameter, more or less. Pinch the edge between your fingers to create the typical pizza border.
  • Using a pizza peel that has been coated with semolina, slide the pizza base on it. Spoon the no-cook pizza sauce on top. Sprinkle the shredded pizza mix cheese and some dry oregano. Slide the pizza onto the pizza stone that has been preheated in the oven at 200ºC (400ºF). Bake for 15-20 minutes until the crust is golden brown and pizza is fully cooked.
  • Using the pizza peel, slide the pizza on and remove from the oven. Sprinkle some basil on top and serve immediately.

Notes

Don't worry if you don't have a standing mixer, pizza peel or pizza stone. Just knead the dough manually, it will be as beautiful. Skip everything related to pizza peel and pizza stone, directly put the pizza base on a pizza pan, add your favourite toppings and bake.