Pizza Dough Recipe. A perfect base for preparing pizzas at home.

Pizza Dough Recipe ~ Let’s check out how to preapre a perfect pizza dough at home for your family especially for your kids. I would love to share the exact way of preparing pizza dough that is very easy and turns out perfect every time I prepare this way at home. Though there are many more ways you can prepare Pizzas at home, but this is one of my best way to prepare. To prepare a pizza base we need only a few regular ingredients like Plain flour, Instant Yeast, Lukewarm water, salt, sugar, and olive oil.

Let’s quickly go over the points we need to know before we start preparing Pizza Dough at home.

• Use all-purpose flour that is maida or mix 1/2 and 1/2 like half whole wheat flour and half all-purpose flour. Also, you may use bread flour. But i would also like to mention that the best bready texture comes when we use complete all purpose flour or combine with bread flour.
• Add water slowly and mix. Adding less water results in hardening of the bread, and too much water makes it too soft, sticky difficult to handle.
• Knead the dough between 10 to 15 minutes or until you see that the texture becomes more stretchy and less sticky.
• Give it a sufficient rest time to rise well. A minimum of 5 to 6 hours or longer is better. Refrigerating overnight gives it an excellent taste and texture according to my personal experience in making pizza base at home every month twice mostly:)
• Give it a second time knead once it rises up for best results.
• You may use olive oil, butter, ghee, or any regular oil to prepare this.
• Adding sugar and salt improves flavour and helps building up the texture of the pizza bread.
• Avoid using too old pack of Yeast. Or test before you use an older pack.
• If not using a instant Yeast then make to activate it before use.

Ingredeints used to preapre the base of the Pizza

• Plain flour 5 and 1/2 cups
• Instant Active Yeast 1pack i.e 1/4 OZ
• 3 cups (Lukewarm or room temperature will do)
• Sugar 4 tablespoon
• Salt 1 tablespoon+1/2 teaspoon
• Olive oil 5 to 6 tablespoons or as required
• Some extra dry flour as required.

Short Summary to preapre Pizza dough for the pizza base

Step by Step directions to prepare perfect Pizza base along with images shown below.

Mix and combine some dry ingredients like plain flour, salt, sugar, and the instant active Yeast 1 pouch.

Slowly start to add water into it and mix. Initially, the mixture looks too liquidy but it would be fine later on. You can start up the whole process using your hands in place of using a mixing jar.

Stir in between with the help of a spatula and mix, then again continue to mix until it starts to form a dough.

As soon as it mixes well for about a few minutes. Stop the machine before the texture turns out too stretchy. Or else it would be too difficult for the mixing machine to handle the stretchiness of the dough. So at this point, you need to stop using the machine and transfer the dough mixture into a flat surface for kneading using your hands.

Start kneading the ingredients until it forms a not-so sticky dough. Initially, it’s too sticky and difficult to handle but with kneading patiently for about 10 to 12 minutes, it starts to come up together and doesn’t feel as sticky as it was. Add a few teaspoons of olive oil to help ease the process, which helps avoid stickiness. Also start adding some dry flour at this point and you will see it feels not-so sticky now and could be handled easily.

Pour some olive oil into the bowl. Transfer the dough. Place the dough on top of the olive oil. Also, drizzle some oil on the top of the dough.

Cover the bowl with a food wrapper and let it rest a minimum of 5 to 6 hours to ferment and rise.

After the dough has risen. First time proofing the dough.

After 5 to 6 hours the dough has risen and it’s time for second time kneading the dough. Uncover the dough.

Second time Kneading the dough/ Second time proofing for the dough.

Simply knead the dough with light hands. Apply some olive oil into your palms before kneading the dough, and this will avoid too much sticking into your hands. Also, sprinkle dry flour as required into it and knead.

Grab the dough into your hands and fold backward. Cover and let the dough rest for 15 more minutes. This time you will see it has risen up very quickly.

After 15 to 20 minutes cut and divide the dough into 4 equal portions. Gently roll and fold the dough as shown in the images below.

Grab a portion of the dough and strech to preapre a pizza base. Move it in a circular motion or simply strech to flatten and shape them.

Place on top of a baking tray. Use butter paper to avoid any chances of sticking. Spread and form a shape of a pizza. You may shape these oval, circles or even smaller pan pizzas.

Apply pizza sauce and then sprinkle a layer of Mozerella cheese and top it with some pepperoni or any other toppings that you like.

Bake at 350 degrees Farenheight for about 24 to 25 minutes.

Once the sides of the [izza bread turns brown and the cheese on the top melts nicely and its looks perfectly cooked

Take it out from the oven and slice it using a pizza cutter.

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