Basic pizza dough recipe with step by step pictures. This is a very basic dough for pizza which gives you perfect pizza, buns, calzones all the time. You don’t need any equipment or heavy machines like stand mixer to make this.
Pizza Dough
This is a basic pizza dough that I use to make all kinds of stuff like buns, pizzas, calzones and many more. I am planning to post so many recipes that calls for this dough, so I thought of posting this dough recipe as a separate post.
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About Homemade Pizza Dough
Did you know making pizza dough at home is super easy and quick. Pizza made with pizza dough is so much better than store bought base. All you need is just flour, salt, sugar, warm water and olive oil to make the dough.
This pizza dough is super versatile, you can make pizza, buns, rolls, calzones, focaccia using this same dough. Also if your dough is too sticky, add more flour. if it is too dry add more water. Thats it.
Once the dough is mixed, You let them rise for few hours before making pizza.One thing you have to make sure is the dough is soft and smooth than hard. Soft elastic dough makes crispy and airy pizza. If you prefer healthy pizza dough, check my whole wheat pizza dough.
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Ingredients
- All Purpose flour – use bread flour or high gluten flour for making pizza. You can use half wheat flour and regular flour in this recipe. Or check my whole wheat pizza dough.
- Dry Yeast – I used dry yeast which needs to be activated before hand making the dough.
- Sugar – A small amount of sugar helps activate the yeast.
- Salt – be generous with the salt, else pizza won’t have much flavour.
- Olive oil – you can use regular good quality olive oil for flavour.
- Warm Water – you can add luke warm water to make the dough.
Step by Step Pictures
1)Take luke warm water in a bowl or jug. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of sugar and yeast into the warm water and mix it once. Now set this aside for 5 minutes for it to get foamy.
2)Now you can see the yeast has activated. It should looks so foamy.
3)Now in a large mixing bowl. Take plain flour. Add in salt to taste and mix it really well so the salt is evenly mixed into the flour.
4)Now pour in the foamy yeast water and use a fork to mix the flour into the yeast mixture.
5)The dough should come together like this.
6)Now add in olive oil into the dough and knead it until combined.
7)Apply olive oil on top of the dough and mix once.
8)Cover the dough with plastic wrap and set aside for 1 to 1.5 hours till the dough is doubled in size.
9)Keep the bowl in a warm place. I usually place it inside my oven, with just oven light on.
10)Look the dough has go doubled in volume now.
11)You can punch out the air from this and use in your recipe. You can make pizza, focaccia, calzones using this dough.
Expert Tips
- The dough which you make should be very soft and slightly sticky before the first rise, once it is risen then add more more and knead to a soft dough. This ensures that the pizza base turn crispy and chewy.
- You can refrigerate the dough for a week. And use whenever you need. But make sure you use a big bowl or container, because they do rise in the fridge.
- You can use other oil or butter in the dough. But in my opinion olive oil gives the real flavour.
Serving and Storage
You can use this dough to make pizza, buns and more. Leftover pizza dough can be kept in a covered container in fridge upto 2 days. Remove from fridge 30 minutes before making pizza.
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Pizza Dough Recipe | Homemade Pizza Dough Recipe
Basic pizza dough recipe with step by step pictures. This is a very basic dough for pizza which gives you perfect pizza, buns, calzones all the time. You don’t need any equipment or heavy machines like stand mixer to make this.
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* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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