This
is my go-to pizza dough recipe. There's some wait time but the final product is DELICIOUS! My boyfriend and I love making this
recipe and having a pizza night. We each get to make our own pizza
with whatever toppings we like! This recipe makes enough dough for
two medium pizzas that usually is two servings for each of us (unless
we're REALLY hungry). Or you could make one large Calzone! This is a great recipe to make with family and
friends for some fun in the kitchen!
Pizza Dough
Makes 2 medium pizza crusts (or 1 large) (about
4 servings)
Hands-on time: 25 minutes
Wait time: 1 hour
Cook time: 20 minutes
Total time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
1 package active dry yeast
1 1/2 cups wheat flour
1 1/2 cups all purpose white flour
1 cup warm water
2 Tbsp olive oil
1/2 Tbsp salt
1 tsp sugar
Also 1/2 cup white flour for kneading
process and 1 Tbsp olive oil to grease dough
1. Mix dry yeast, sugar, and warm
water in a large mixing bowl. Let rest until the yeast starts to
foam, about 5 minutes.
2. In a separate bowl
combine wheat and white flour.
3. Mix olive oil and salt into yeast
mixture. Add half of the flour mixture to yeast
mixture and stir. Add remaining flour mixture to yeast mixture and continue
stirring until the dough starts to separate from the edge of the bowl (you'll
probably need to use your hands at this point).
4. Sprinkle extra flour onto a large
surface. Knead ball of dough on floured surface, adding flour to the surface as
needed to keep the dough from sticking to the surface or your hands. Knead for
about 5 minutes.
5. Set oven to warm. Grease glass
baking pan and ball of dough with extra olive oil. Place dough in baking pan
and cover with aluminum foil in a tent shape so there is room for the dough to
rise. Place dough in oven and let rise for an hour.
6. Remove dough from oven and split
into two parts (for medium sized pizzas). Knead the dough again on the floured
surface for 5 minutes.
7. Roll out dough to desired thickness
and fold over edges to make a crust. Top with your favorite pizza fixings and
bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees F. Enjoy!
One
package of dry yeast and sugar.
Mix
yeast, sugar, and warm water (in a bigger bowl than this. I wasted a
clean dish) and let it sit for 5 minutes.
The
yeast will get all fluffy and frothy like this after 5 minutes!
Mix
yeast mixture with olive oil and salt. I think the 2 tablespoons of
olive oil is the key to keeping the final product nice and soft!
I
like mixing white flour and wheat flour! I've done the recipe with
all white but never with all wheat. From what I read online it seems
that the texture changes too much if you use all wheat flour.
Stir
half the flour mixture into the yeast mixture.
Stir
in the rest of the flour! It will start to pull away from the edges
of the bowl. Add another tablespoon of flour if the dough sticks to
your fingers too much.
Flour your counter top!
Now
comes the fun part. Knead the dough on the floured counter top for
about 5 minutes. You might need to add more water or flour a
tablespoon at a time if the dough is crumbling ( add water) or
sticking to your hands too much (add flour). *Shout out to my
boyfriend for handling the camera while my hands were messy!
The
dough will come together and be very elastic after about 5 minutes of
kneading.
Done with round 1!
It expands quite a bit! Separate
the dough into two equal parts. Dough balls this size make medium
pizzas, enough for two meals each if you're a little hungry and one
meal if you're super hungry!
Roll
out (or just use your hands) the dough out until it reaches your
desired thickness. Personally I'm a thick crust kind of girl.
Fold
the edges over and press to make the crust.
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It puffs up quite nicely. Sometimes I like to sprinkle parmesan cheese directly onto the crust. It kind of turns your crust into bread sticks! This homemade dough is definitely worth the wait time to make it!
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