This homemade pizza dough recipe uses pantry-staple ingredients to make a delicious thick crust pizza recipe that can easily be customized with your favorite toppings to make your favorite pizza at home.
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Our homemade pizza dough recipe is made with pantry-staples including flour, salt, yeast, and sugar to made a delicious thick crust pizza. This recipe makes 2 medium-size pizzas or 4 personal pizzas. Add your favorite toppings to this easy pizza crust to make your favorite pizzas at home.
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Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Easy Dinner
- Kid-Friendly Recipe
Ingredients & Substitutions
- Water - Warm water helps proof the yeast.
- Yeast - We recommend using active yeast to help the dough to rise.
- Sugar - Use cane sugar to proof the yeast.
- Oil - Olive oil not only adds flavor to the dough, but it also gives the dough a soft texture that allows it to be stretched and shaped.
- Flour - We recommend using unbleached all-purpose flour.
- Salt - Salt enhances the flavor and texture of the dough.
- Toppings - We love topping our homemade pizza with pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and sausage.
Complete list of ingredients and amounts is located on the recipe card below.
Kitchen Tools & Equipment
- Mixing Bowl - A mixing bowl is necessary to mix the dough together in.
- Measuring Cups - Measuring cups and spoons are necessary to measure out ingredients.
- Danish Dough Hook - A dough hook helps to mix the dough together.
- Rolling Pin - A rolling pin helps to roll the pizza dough out.
- Sheet Pan - A sheet pan is necessary to bake the pizza on.
- Parchment Paper - We recommend placing the dough on parchment paper before rolling it out.
- Cheese Grater - This cheese grater makes it very easy to top the pizza with freshly grated cheese.
- Cutting Board - We recommend transferring the pizza to a cutting board to cut it into slices.
- Pizza Cutter - A pizza cutter helps to easily cut the pizza into slices.
How to Make the Recipe
Step 1.Mix the pizza dough together.
Step 2. Allow the dough to rise.
Step 3. Roll the dough out.
Step 4. Top the dough with toppings.
Step 5. Bake the pizza in the oven.
Recipe Serving Suggestions
This recipe makes two medium-size pizzas that can be cut into 8-10 slices each. You can also divide the dough into 4 parts to make 4 smaller pizzas.
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Expert Tips & Variations
- Prepare the dough ahead of time. You can make the dough ahead of time and store in the fridge or freezer until you are ready to make the pizzas.
- Customize the toppings. Add your favorite toppings like extra meat, cheese and vegetables.
How to Store
- Refrigerator - store the baked pizza in an airtight container the fridge for up to four days.
- Freezer - store the baked pizza in a freezer-safe container for up to 2 months.
Recipe FAQ
You can make the pizza dough ahead of time and store the uncooked dough in an airtight container in the fridge. We do not recommend storing the dough in the fridge for longer than 1-2 days because it will begin to ferment.
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Homemade Pizza Dough
This homemade pizza dough recipe uses pantry-staple ingredients to make a delicious thick crust pizza recipe that can easily be customized with your favorite toppings to make your favorite pizza at home.
Ingredients
- 2 cups warm water
- 1 Tablespoon active dry yeast
- 1 Tablespoon cane sugar
- ½ cup olive oil
- 5 cups unbleached flour
- 1 Tablespoon salt
Instructions
- Begin by proofing the yeast. Add 2 cups of warm water, 1 Tablespoon yeast and 1 Tablespoon sugar to a bowl. Stir to combine then cover for 10 minutes with a tea towel.
- After 10 minutes the yeast mixture should be frothy on top. Pour the yeast mixture into a large mixing bowl.
- Pour ½ cup olive oil into the bowl and use a dough hook to whisk the yeast mixture and oil together.
- Add 1 cup of flour and 1 Tablespoon of salt to the bowl and stir to combine with the yeast and oil mixture.
- Continue to add 1 cup of flour at a time, mixing as you go, until all 5 cups have been added to the bowl and you can shape the mixture into a ball of dough. You may need to transfer the dough to a clean countertop to knead the dough together.
- Place the ball of dough back into the large bowl, cover the bowl with a tea towel, and set the bowl on the countertop to allow the dough to rise for 1 hour.
- After an hour, the dough should be doubled in size.
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees and line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
- Use your fist to punch down into the ball of dough, releasing air.
- Remove the dough from the bowl and divide the dough into 2 equal-size pieces.
- Place the parchment paper lining the sheet pan on the countertop and place one ball of dough in the center of the parchment paper.
- Sprinkle the top of the dough with flour.
- Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out into a large circle or oval shape that is about ½ inch to 1 inch thick.
- Transfer the parchment paper with the rolled out dough on it back onto the sheet pan.
- Once the dough is rolled out, top the dough with your favorite pizza toppings starting with a layer of pizza sauce followed by a layer of cheese.
- Place the pizza in the oven and bake for 15 minutes at 425 degrees.
- Once the cheese is melted and the crust is golden brown, remove the pizza from the oven.
- Allow the pizza to cool slightly before transferring to a cutting board, cutting into pieces and serving the pizza.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 477Total Fat: 12gSaturated Fat: 2gUnsaturated Fat: 10gSodium: 458mgCarbohydrates: 82gFiber: 3gSugar: 1gProtein: 11g
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