Pizza Dough
A simple and easy recipe for home made pizza dough.
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.