Recipe: 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 cook Pizza dough using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pizza dough

1. It's 5 cups of dough (1 litre).
2. It's 1 packet of instant yeast.
3. You need 1 tbsp of sugar.
4. It's 1/2 tbsp of salt.
5. Prepare 4 tbsp of oil.
6. Prepare 2 cups of luke warm water.

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 instructions

1. Take about 5 cups flour in a bowl and create a hole in the centre.
2. Add the yeast, sugar, salt and oil in the centre of the flour.
3. Slowly and gradually add the water to the flour to form a medium hard dough. Dont worry if it's hard since it will soften as the dough rises.
4. Knead the dough for about 10 minutes to make a smooth texture then cover with a plastic.
5. The longer you leave the dough the better it rises when cooking. Best is overnight for better results.
6. Roll out the dough to preferred size and add ingredients as desired.
7. Preheat the oven to 220-230C for about 10-15 mins.
8. If you add semolina to the base of the pizza before cooking it helps avoid sticking and adds a great taste to the pizza.
9. Then cook the pizza for about 10-15 minutes until the dough rises and the cheese melts.
10. You can also freeze your pizzas to eat it ready whenever you feel lazy to cook.
11. All you have to do is cook it for 5-7 mins until the dough rises but not fully cooked.

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. Whisk sugar, oil, and salt into yeast mixture. Add flour and stir until a sticky dough forms. Transfer dough to an oiled bowl and brush top with oil.

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