Easy pizza dough
Easy pizza dough recipe in the pizza category
Recipe ingredients:
- 3 1/2 cups unbleached, all purpose flour
- 2 packages dry active yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 1/2 cup lukewarm water from the tap
- 1/2 teaspoon olive oil
- Flour, for the work surface
- Cornmeal, to dust
Recipe method:
- In a mixing bowl fitted with a dough hook, place flour, yeast, salt and sugar.
- While mixer is running, gradually add water and knead on low speed until dough is firm and smooth, about 10 minutes.
- Turn machine off. Pour oil down inside of bowl.
- Turn on low once more for 15 seconds to coat inside of bowl and all surfaces of dough with the oil.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rise in warm spot until doubled in bulk, about 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 500 degrees F. If using a pizza stone, place stone in oven on bottom rack, preheat oven 1 hour ahead.
- Punch dough down, cut in half.
- Place half of the dough on generously floured work surface.
- By hand, form dough loosely into a ball and stretch into a circle.
- Using floured rolling pin, roll dough into large circle until very thin.
- To prevent dough from sticking to counter, turn over the dough and sprinkle with flour.
- Flour the counter top and rolling pin as needed.
- Sprinkle pizza peel or cookie sheet generously with cornmeal.
- Transfer dough to pizza peel or cookie sheet with no lip. Add toppings.
- Slide dough onto pizza stone or place cookie sheet with pizza on bottom rack.
- Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden.
- Roll out remaining dough and top with desired toppings or freeze in freezer bags.
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