Do you love pizza? Then you absolutely must try this homemade pizza dough, few and genuine ingredients to get a pizza as good as the baker’s, actually even better because you’ll make it yourself! I will leave you all the instructions and tricks to get a top result even at home! I’ll already warn you that you can make either nice tall and fluffy pizzas (which you can cut in half and fill) or round and thin pizzas like in a pizzeria! But now, hurry up and get your hands in the dough! Inside the article, you will also find the whole process for baking pizza!
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very economical
- Rest time: 8 Hours
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 1
- Cooking methods: Electric oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients for the homemade pizza dough
- 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup cups water (at room temperature)
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 0.2 oz fresh yeast (or 0.07 oz dry)
- 1/4 tsp sugar
Useful Tools
- Stand Mixer
- Pastry Board
- Food Wrap
- Non-stick Baking Pan
- Kitchen Scale
- Bowl
Steps to Make Homemade Pizza Dough
Start by placing in the stand mixer bowl in the following order: flour, sugar, yeast, water (keeping one tablespoon aside), and oil. Attach the dough hook and set the mixer to speed 2, let it work for 10 minutes, then turn off, cover with a cloth, and let it rest for 10 minutes covered.
After the resting period, turn on the mixer again at speed 2, add the salt and the water kept aside, and let it go for 5 minutes, then turn off, transfer the dough (which will be well kneaded) onto a lightly floured pastry board and shape it into a ball, then place the dough in a bowl covered with food wrap, leave it in a closed and dark place, let it rise until it doubles in volume (it will take about 4 hours, times depend a lot on external temperatures).
Once the dough has doubled in volume, give it a fold in the bowl and cover with wrap to rise for 1 hour.
After 1 hour, turn the dough out into a well-oiled rectangular baking pan if you want a high and fluffy pizza, or if you want a thinner pizza, divide the dough into two pans, spread the dough with slightly oiled hands, then let it rest so it relaxes (30 minutes is enough), then spread it again with your hands to the edges (by now it will be very pliable), put the pan with the dough to rise in the switched-off, closed oven for 1 hour.
After 1 hour, remove the pan from the oven, heat it to 482°F, when it’s hot, season the pizza as you like (with tomato, white, etc.) and bake, cook for 30 minutes always checking the cooking because each oven is different, in the end, the pizza should be very well browned at the edges, eat it hot or cold and you’ll taste how good it is! Enjoy your meal!
For those not using a stand mixer, just follow the order of ingredient insertion and knead by hand for at least 20 minutes, then after creating the dough, follow the same procedure as above!
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Tips
The all-purpose flour I use in this recipe must have a minimum of 13 g of protein (it helps to give more elasticity and strength to the dough), you find this information written on the packaging of each type of flour.
