Pizza Dough Recipe
Mix and combine the dry ingredients, like the plain flour, salt, sugar, and the instant active Yeast 1 pouch. Slowly start adding water ( should be at room temperature or lukewarm water) into it and mix. Use a mixing jar to mix initially or you may use a hand beater as well, Initially, the mixture looks too liquidy. Stir using a spatula and start to mix again. Continue to mix until it starts forming a stretchy dough. Before the mixture starts getting too stretchy turn off the machine as it is going to be difficult for the mixer to handle the stretchiness of the dough. So make sure to turn it off and you need to transfer the mixture into a flat surface for kneading using hands. You can start up the whole process using your hands in place of a mixer. Well, now we need to continue kneading the dough until it feels smooth and stretchy. It took me around 10 to 12 minutes to knead the dough nicely.Initially, it's too stretchy and difficult but within a few minutes, it starts to come up together and doesn't feel as sticky as it was. Add a few teaspoons of olive oil which helps avoid the stickiness and manage the texture by adding little dry flour towards the end while you knead the dough.Finally, transfer the dough into the clean bowl by pouring some olive oil on the base. Place the dough on top of it and drizzle some oil on top of it. Cover the bowl with a food wrapper and let it rest to ferment and rise.After 5 to 6 hours OR storing the dough overnight in the refrigerator, the dough has risen now and it's time for a second time kneading, for proofing.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 shaping up like a ball. Cover and let the dough rest for 15 more minutes for proofing. 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. Then move using a portion of the dough in a circular motion so that it stretches and forms a shape of a disk. Or simply put it on a surface and slowly stretch from all sides to form a shape of a pizza base. Shape them as oval or give them a circular shape.Place on top of a baking tray. Use butter paper to avoid any chances of sticking. Apply pizza sauce and then sprinkle a layer of Mozerella cheese and top it with some pepperonis or any other toppings that you like.Bake at 350 degrees Farenheight for about 24 to 25 minutes.Once the sides of the bread turn brown and the cheese on the top melts nicely and its looks perfectly cooked it's done. Take it out from the oven and slice it using a pizza cutter.
Ingredients
- 5 and 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
- 4 tablespoons Sugar
- 1 tbsp + 1 tsp Salt
- 3 cups Water (room temperature or lukewarm)
- 5 tablespoons Olive oil
- 1/4 OZ Instant active yeast 1 pacl