Pizza Dough
How to make the perfect homemade Pizza dough, quick, simple and very easy to make, step by step instructions from start to finish.
Ingredients
Method
- 540g / 19oz 00 Pizza or Bread flour
- 350g / 350ml Water (40°C / 104°F)
- 8g / 1tsp Salt
- 6g / 1tsp Sugar
- 7g / 2tsp Instant or Active dried Yeast
- 15g / 1tbls Olive Oil
- Pizza Topping of your choice
- NOTE: This recipe is more focused on making the pizza dough rather than an actual finished pizza, however I will show an example of a basic finished pizza at the end.
- Add the sugar to the warm water and stir, once the sugar has dissolved, add the yeast and stir it in thoroughly, set it aside until it activates.
- Once activated, add the yeast mixture to your stand mixer bowl, followed by the olive oil.
- Pour the flour and the salt into your mixer bowl, and using the dough hook, knead for 10 minutes.
- If you are kneading this recipe by hand, add all of the ingredients to a bowl and partially mix it all together, tip it out onto your worktop and knead the dough for 10 minutes, then carry on with recipe.
- Turn out the dough from the mixer and form it into a ball, place it into a lightly oiled bowl, cover the bowl and let it proof/rise for a minimum of 1 hour, the dough should double in size (this may take longer depending on the temperature of your kitchen) if you can, proof your dough in the oven, with just the light bulb on.
- After the proofing time, turn out the risen dough onto a non-floured surface, and knock the dough back, this simply means force all of the gas out of it.
- Form the dough into a ball once more, then divide it into 3 equal pieces, which should weigh around 300g / 11oz each.
- Form them into 3 smooth dough balls.
- At this point you can wrap 2 of the dough-balls separately, in lightly oiled cling film, and get the into the freezer for future pizzas.
- Form the 3rd dough-ball into a 12-inch pizza shape, leaving the edges a little thicker, (see the video).
- Add the tomato sauce and your favourite topping and bake in a hot oven until cooked.
- Enjoy.
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