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Easy Homemade Pizza Dough
This is the best pizza dough recipe ever. It's easy to makewith 5 ingredients and doesn't need to rise - which means you can have a freshhot homemade pizza on the table in 30 minutes.
Prep
5 min
Cook
25 min
Total
30 min
Serves
14
Instructions
- 01
Preheat oven to 500 degrees Fahrenheit (260 degrees Celsius). Put a pizza stone in the oven while it preheats, and let it warm at 500 degrees F for at least 10 minutes.*
- 02
Combine warm water, yeast and sugar in a large mixing bowl and stir to combine.
- 03
Let mixture sit for 5 minutes, or until it becomes frothy and bubbles form.
- 04
Gently stir in olive oil.
- 05
Add 2 cups of flour and salt and mix with a spatula until a ball begins to form (dough will still be slightly sticky). Add more flour as needed to form a dough ball.
- 06
Transfer to a floured surface and knead into a smooth dough, adding up to ½ cup extra flour if needed.
- 07
Optional. if desired, cover the bowl with a damp tea towel and let it rise for 10 minutes or up to 1 hour.
- 08
Roll the dough into your desired shape and put it on a piece of parchment paper.
- 09
Add pizza sauce, cheese and toppings of choice.
- 10
Use a pizza peel to transfer the pizza to the preheated pizza stone in the oven.
- 11
Bake on the preheated pizza stone for 11-14 minutes, or until the bottom of the crust is golden brown.
- 12
Remove the pizza from the oven with the pizza peel and put it on a wire rack to cool for at 5-10 minutes before cutting and serving.
Nutrition
per serving · 1 Serving (Crust only)
- Calories
- 67
- Protein
- 2g
- Carbs
- 12g
- Fat
- 1.2g
- Fiber
- 0.5g
- Sugar
- 1g
- Sat. fat
- 0.2g
- Sodium
- 177mg
Variations & swaps
Homemade Pizza Dough: Ingredients & Substitutions
- All-purpose flour. You can use a 1:1 gluten-free all-purpose baking flour to make this pizza dough gluten-free. If you’re looking for a whole wheat pizza dough recipe, this one is the best.
- Sugar. honey works very well in place of sugar.
- Olive oil. Any neutral tasting oil works perfectly in this recipe, I suggest olive oil, avocado oil or canola oil.
- Toppings: The unanimous pizza topping of choice for my family is pepperoni or cheese. We also love sausage pizza, BBQ chicken, etc. You can top your dough with anything you like!
- Note: The crust is vegan, so you can make delicious dairy-free/vegan pizzas using this recipe, and save yourself lots of money buying vegan options at the store.
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