The Best Pizza Dough Recipe

How to make the best pizza with homemade pizza dough! Serve your family there favorite without braking the bank. Pizza delivery is not cheap but homemade pizza is affordable, fun and delicious!

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Ingredients for Pizza Dough

Warm Water

The warm water helps the yeast activate. If the water is hot it will kill the yeast, if it is cold it will not wake up the yeast and your dough wont raise.

Yeast

Active dry yeast is our leavening agent for our pizza dough. Yeast is a living, single cell organism that feeds on sugars and makes carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide forms bubbles in the dough causing the dough to rise.

Sugar

The yeast works best when given some food. A little sugar is just what the yeast needs to start its work. It also adds a bit a flavor.

Flour

All purpose flour works great for this recipe. We want our flour to be stretchy and strong. All purpose flour will give you your best change.

Salt

Add and enhance flavor with salt. Simple table salt works for this recipe as well as pink himalayan or any other sea salt. Salt will slow down the yeast process so it is important to remember to add the salt along with the flour and not straight into the water, sugar and yeast mixture. The flour will distribute the slat properly without disturbing the yeast’s process.

How to Make Pizza Dough

1. Mix Water, Yeast and Sugar

Activate your yeast! In a mixing bowl or kitchen aid mixer add yeast, warm water and then sugar. The warm water starts our activation and the sugar will feed it. Mix together and let sit for 5-10 minutes until foamy.

2. Add Flour and Salt

After the yeast is activated start adding flour 1/2 cup at a time mixing and kneading together. Once you’ve added a 1 cup add in the salt then add the rest of the four 1/2 cup at a time.

3. Knead Dough

Knead the dough for about 5 minutes until the dough is smooth and elasticity. This may take longer if kneading by hand.

4. Rest and Rise

Cover the dough with a plastic wrap or a damp towel and let the dough rest and rise for about 1 hour or until doubled in size. Its best to rise in a warm place for the yeast to work properly. If its a little cooler in your house it will still rise but it may take a little longer.

5. Roll Out Pizza Dough

Divide the dough into half for 2 large pizzas or thirds for 3 medium size pizzas or into fourths for 4 small pizzas. Form into a disc and roll out will a rolling pin into a nice round circle. Use some extra flour on your counter or table to avoid the dough from sticking to the counter and rolling pin. If the dough doesn’t want to spread or tears easily be patient with the dough and let rest.

6. Assemble Pizza!

Sauce, Cheese, Pepperoni, veggies, pineapple or whatever topping you like!! Your favorite pizza is only a few more minutes away. Choose your toppings and assemble and bake for 18-20 minutes at 450 degrees.

MORE than pizza!

This pizza dough recipe makes more than just pepperoni pizza…
You can use this recipe for calzones, dessert pizzas, cheesey bread sticks, garlic knots and even cinnamon monkey bread.

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