How to Cook Perfect Pizza Dough

Pizza Dough. Combine the bread flour, sugar, yeast and kosher salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and combine. This easy pizza dough recipe is the key to making an extraordinary homemade pizza. We use all-purpose flour because double zero is hard to find.

Combine flour, salt, sugar, and yeast in a large bowl. Mix in oil and warm water. Spread out on a large pizza pan. You can have Pizza Dough using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pizza Dough

1. You need 1 tsp of Yeast.
2. Prepare 1 tbsp of Sugar.
3. You need 250 ml of Warm Water.
4. It's 250 grams of Flour.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of Salt.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of Oregano.
7. You need 1 tsp of Dried Basil.
8. It's 1 tbsp of Olive Oil.

The ingredients in this homemade pizza dough recipe include bread flour, sugar, dry yeast, salt, water and olive oil. You'll use the dough hook on your stand mixer to combine the ingredients before. Stretch the dough into a round disc, rotating after each stretch. Toss the dough in the air, if you dare.

Pizza Dough step by step

1. Combine the yeast, sugar and warm water in a bowl. Stir well to dissolve the yeast and sugar. Let sit for 3-5 minutes to let the yeast bloom (or wake up). You'll see foam on top when its awake and ready to go..
2. While you're waiting for the yeast, combine the flour, basil, oregano and salt in a large bowl. Stir well to evenly distribute the salt. Add the olive oil (it will get sired/mixed in during kneading)..
3. Once the yeast water is foamy on top (see photos below) stir it into the flour mixture. Stir it with a spoon until it forms a loose ball. Turn it out onto a counter and begin to knead the dough. Knead well for 10 minutes. Sprinkle flour on the countertop sparingly as you knead. If you add too much flour the dough will end up dense (more like a bagel) rather than light like a pizza dough..
4. To use the dough the same day, form the kneaded dough into a ball (or cut and form into four small balls for individual pizzas). Spray a bowl with non stick spray, place the dough inside and turn it to coat with oil. Cover the bowl loosely and let it rise in a warm place for one hour. An hour later, after it has risen, punch it down to release some gasses and stretch it into a 16 round base..
5. Bake in a preheated (completely preheated, no short cuts here) oven at 230C for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are brown and crispy. Making sure the oven is well heated before hand will ensure that the bottom cooks and gets nice and crispy. If you are going to add toppings, cook the pizza plain for a few minutes before adding the toppings and returning to the oven for the remaining time..

Shake the pizza on the peel to be sure that it will slide onto the pizza stone or tile. It is best if prepared in advance and refrigerated overnight. Turn dough out onto a well floured surface. Form dough into a round and roll out into a pizza crust shape. Whisk sugar, oil, and salt into yeast mixture.

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