Home Made Pizza Dough is the perfect way to start building your base for a perfect pizza. Pizza dough is super easy to make, but there is a lot of waiting time while the dough rises.

Home Made Pizza Dough Recipe:

Simple ingredients come together to create a perfect pizza dough. Home-made pizza dough is so easy to make.

When making pizza just follow the tips in the recipe and you won’t go wrong. You can also make the dough yourself in advance and store it in the refrigerator until you’re ready to use it. Just give it plenty of time to let it come up to room temp on your countertop. Cold Dough will not stretch out. It will fight you.

Don’t be afraid to get your hands in the dough and enjoy the process. Get the kids involved and make it a family cooking event, just like my Nonna used to do with me.

Tips for Making Home Made Pizza Dough:

There are few tips to making home-made pizza dough.

Warm Water is key. If your water is too cold your dough will seize up. Warm water is also needed to dissolve the yeast. Don’t be afraid to err on the side of a tiny bit hotter vs cooler.
Check your yeast date! Make sure it hasn’t expired. Expired yeast will not let your dough rise.
If the dough is sticking to your hands a lot, sprinkle in more flour and kneed until it’s not.
If the dough is tough, like it feels like a rock or its crumbling and not coming together like a smooth ball, you added too much flour. Add in some warm water in small drizzles to try to get the dough to soften/loosen up so it can come together.
Pizza dough must be room temp to easily work with it. Cold dough will not stretch out. It will fight you.

Storing your Home Made Pizza Dough:

If you are making your pizza dough in advance to use on later date, simply wrap your pizza dough in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator. When you are ready to use your pizza dough take it out the the refrigerator and give it plenty of time to let it come up to room temp on your countertop. Cold Dough will not stretch out. It will fight you.

Ingredients for Home Made Pizza Dough:

This is everything you will need to make this pizza. Flour, yeast, warm water, salt, and olive oil.

How to Make Home Made Pizza Dough:

Combine yeast and warm water together.
Combine flour and salt, and mix together.
Pour yeast water mix in small batches into flour and combine.
Kneed the dough.
Oil the dough and cover with plastic wrap and dish clothes and let rise.
After you’re dough doubles in size, punch down, form small dough balls, cover in plastic wrap and dish clothes again to let rise again.
When your dough balls have doubled in size your dough is ready to make pizza.

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Pizza Dough

A simple and easy recipe for home made pizza dough.

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Prep Time 4

Course Pizza

Cuisine Italian

Equipment

Pastry/Dough Board

Ingredients

1 teaspoon active dry yeast
1 cup warm water
3 cups all purpose flour
extra flour as needed and for sprinkling
1 ½ teaspoon salt
olive oil

Instructions

In a small bowl, combine yeast and warm water together and stir until yeast powder is dissolved.
On a pastry board, combine flour and salt, and mix together with a fork or by hand.
Now make sure the flour is all together like a mountain, and make as wide a well in the center. Imagine a volcano. Flour on the outside and only a small amount of flour left in the middle.
Start pouring your water yeast mix, a little at a time, into the center of your volcano. With your hand, bring in some flour from the inside edge of the volcano to mix with the water. Keep repeating that process until you have formed a rough dough ball.
When you have a rough dough ball, kneed the dough with both hands until the dough is smooth.
TIP: If the dough sticks to your hands, sprinkle some more flour on the dough board and kneed until it's no longer sticking to your hands.
In a large bowl, put a small drizzle amount of olive in it.
Take your dough ball and coat it on all sides in the olive oil bowl.
Leave your dough ball in the bowl.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and 5 dish clothes. Leave in a warm location to let rise.
About an 1 and 1/2 hrs later, check the dough to see if it has doubled in size.
If it has, punch down the dough and scoop it out onto a lightly floured pastry board.
Roll the dough into balls about 3 to 4 inches round.
Cover the top and sides of each ball in plastic wrap on the pastry board. And then cover with dish clothes again and allow to rise.
When your dough rises again, about another 1 and 1/2 hours; it's ready to make pizza.

Notes

TIPS:

If the dough is sticking to your hands a lot, sprinkle in more flour and kneed until it’s not.
If the dough is tough, like it feels like a rock or its crumbling and not coming together like a smooth ball, you added too much flour. Add in some warm water in small drizzles to try to get the dough to soften/loosen up so it can come together.

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