Recipe: Appetizing Pizza Dough

Pizza Dough. This recipe for everyday pizza dough is one we’ve worked on together over the years, tweaking something here and adding something there, until finally coming to a consensus. For your next pizza night at home, make Bobby Flay’s homemade Pizza Dough recipe from Food Network, and finish it with your favorite toppings. Anthony Falco of Roberta’s in Bushwick, Brooklyn, teaches Sam Sifton how to make restaurant-style pizza dough at home.

Pizza Dough My family now likes homemade pizza better than take-out! I make mine in the food. Making pizza dough at home couldn’t get any easier than with my simple pizza dough recipe. You can cook Pizza Dough using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pizza Dough

  1. It’s 4 1/2 cup of AP Flour.
  2. Prepare 2 tsp of Flechmenns Dry Active Yeast.
  3. Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.
  4. It’s 1/2 cup of warm water 110°F-112°F.
  5. Prepare 2 tsp of sea salt.
  6. You need 1 Tbsp of Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
  7. You need 1 1/4 cup of water.

Combine flour, salt, sugar, and yeast in a large bowl. Mix in oil and warm water. Flour, salt, water and yeast - what do these simple ingredients have in common? They come together to create the perfect foundation for any good Italian pizza - perfect pizza dough recipe!

Pizza Dough step by step

  1. In medium sized cup mix together warm water and sugar until it dissolves, then add yeast. Mix 2-3 times gently then let rest for about 15-20 min..
  2. While yeast is activating in a Large mixing bowl, Flour and salt (this is where you can be creative with what kind of dough do you want ie-pizza add garlic powder, thyme, oregano).
  3. Once yeast has activated and has risen to the top of the cup or you see a yellow golden-ish foam on top of the water, add all wet ingredients leaving the yeast last. Mix in a “Cross” formation then an “X”..
  4. Once all the ingredients are incorperated spread (Dust) flour onto a clean surface for kneading. Note: If mixture is too wet add more flour, if its too dry use the same cup you had for the yeast and add water from that cup..
  5. Knead. For 10-15min.
  6. Once formed into a nice ball of dough, dust flour on the bottome of the bowl(so the dough doesn’t stick) place back to large mixing bowl.* Optional-brush the dough with oil.* Cover..
  7. Quick Rise- Cover with a hot towel and let it rise for 30 min. Slow Rise- Cover with plastic wrap, place in the fridge for 24 hrs. After the rise process, scrape the dough onto a floured surface and divide the dough how you want per size. 1/2= 2 large 16"/18" pizzas. 1/4= 4 medium 12"/14" pizzas. Bake on a pizza stone or 550°F for 7-10min Enjoy!.

Making pizza dough is not the quickest process, but it’s easy, and if you are an aficionado of Italian food you now that it’s worth the effort to find your best pizza dough recipe, it will reward you with. Plus it is vegan with a gluten-free. Use this dough for any pizza recipe you want to make and follow recipe instructions for shaping and baking times. The Neapolitan pizza is characterised by a relatively high edge and a thin center of the pizza. The only ingredients required to make the dough are flour, water, salt and yeast.

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