Easy Pizza Dough Recipe

This easy pizza dough recipe uses 6 simple ingredients to create a pizza crust that everyone will love. Elevate your weeknight dinners and family meals to new heights with this delicious and easy-to-make dough. There’s no need for a pizza stone, fancy flour, or complicated techniques. This seamless recipe is sure to become a staple in your home, just like it is mine!

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hey I’m John canel and today on preppy
kitchen I’m showing you how to make an
easy versatile pizza dough so let’s get
started first off in the bowl of your
stand mixer or a big bowl if you’re
making this by hand add 3/4 of a cup of
warm water it’s about 100 to
110° and if it’s a cold day and your
bowl is ice cold just run it under some
hot water like I did earlier swish it
around and dump it out that way the
yeast will be nice and happy because hot
water can go ice cold if you put it in a
cold Bowl really fast to our warm water
we’re adding a/4 Oz packet or 7 G of
active dry yeast not instant yeast in
this video you’ll discover how to make
pizza dough and how to use it to make a
delicious pizza it’s so simple and easy
and you might just not go back to store
bought again from garlic knots to
Stromboli and cazones even Sweet Treats
this dough can do it all our yeast need
a little bit of food to wake up so I’m
adding one teaspoon of granulated sugar
in here you could also use honey or
brown sugar instead if you like give
this
mix and set this aside for 5 to 7
minutes or until you see a nice foamy
head on top that means the yeast have
woken up and they’re alive if there is
no frothy head your yeast are not in
good shape so do not proceed start over
again with the new batch the yeast might
be old maybe the water was too hot we
don’t know but your pizza dough will not
rise so it must be for me by the way if
you want to double this recipe which I
do all the time my kids love making
pizza dough at home and they do it by
hand from scratch so you can totally
double the recipe all you have to do is
double everything except the yeast you
could double the yeast if you want but
you don’t need to they can handle that
much more flour really
easily it’s been 5 minutes and my yeast
is nice and foamy come take a look
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corner time to add the flour in 2 cups
or 240 G and you have a choice today I’m
using allpurpose flour you have a ton of
options though if you want a chew your
pizza go for Bread Flour if you want to
have a thinner Crisp Pizza that has good
chew use double zero flour if you’re
wondering why bread flour is different
it just has more protein or gluten and
that gives you that chewy characteristic
that some people love in their chocolate
chip cookies and pizza all right for
some contrast 3/4 of a teaspoon of salt
and we’re also adding in two teaspoons
of sugar so we have a total of three in
the recipe and once again if you wanted
to use honey you could brown sugar that
works too we’re also adding in 1 tbsp of
olive
oil there we
go now we’re going to pop this into our
stand mixer when my kids and I make this
at home they get two big Bowls two
measuring cups for the water and they
mix it all by hand first with a wooden
spoon and then they just knead it on the
counter it’s a great way to Spence some
time on the weekend because it gets some
energy out it’s really tactile and it’s
delicious at the end of the
day we’re going to mix on low for about
a minute or until the dough comes
together and then we can increase speed
to medium
low my Do’s come together and now we’re
going to increase speed to medium low
and run the mixer for about 5 minutes or
until it comes together in a ball and
has some elasticity to it if you’re
doing this by hand wooden spoon is out
and once it’s come together in a Shaggy
mixture you can dump it out onto the
counter and get to kneading you will
need to flour your hands and have some
flour ready at the counter top because
it can get
sticky
okay just examining my dough it’s been 5
minutes but honestly while quite
stretchy it’s very wet there might have
been a little bit too much moisture in
the air maybe you added a bit too much
water who knows but in either case a
tablespoon or two of flour will fix
everything and conversely if your dough
seems really dry just add a few
tablespoons of warm water in a
tablespoon at a time until it comes
together the pendulum can swing both
ways it’s not your
fault there we go
2 and 1/2 tbspoon of flour worked some
wonders and now my flour looks
appropriately hydrated and it’s sticky
and cohesive but it’s not sticking to my
fingers this is optional but I always
like to finish my dough off by hand and
just give it a couple needs so I can
make sure it’s appropriately
elastic lightly flower your
countertop all right transfer your D to
your countertop and you’re just going to
give it a good stretch W that’s very
nice this doesn’t really need anything
but if you are making this by hand
you’re going to knead It Out by pressing
away from you bringing it in pressing
away bringing it in and you can
alternate and add some flour to your
hands as needed this is like the
opposite of making a cake where you
don’t want to over mix your Dough
because it’ll activate the gluten and
it’ll give you a chewy bready cake but
for pizza dough you want it to have a
beautiful chew and nice structure and
you’re going to build that structure up
through
kneading here however my mixer did all
the work for me and it has a nice bounce
it’s totally cohesive and this is ready
to go into an oiled Bowl in a nice warm
cozy Place lightly oil a large bowl work
the oil up the
bowl and now we’re going to transfer our
dough to the bowl and just turn it
around a few times so it’s oiled all
over and doesn’t dry
out cover this up with a damp cloth or
some plastic and we’re going to let this
sit in a nice warm cozy place for about
an hour until it’s doubled in size I
just so happen to have a proofing drawer
specifically for this but you can put
the light on in your oven that warms it
up appropriately or even warm your oven
up to 100° then turn it off and then put
your bowl in we’ll be right
back if you want some extra Flavor in
Your crust try adding a teaspoon of one
of your favorite dried herbs you could
add Rosemary oregano even Italian
seasoning or half a teaspoon of garlic
or onion powder these are all totally
optional though my only point is that
you can make this crust your own and
it’s so versatile towards the end of
your rise time preheat your oven to 450°
it needs to be screaming hot for this
pizza after an hour my pizza dough is
doubled in size look at this guy so
pretty oh I love that jiggle right now
you have a choice you can use a pizza
stone mine is lost I don’t know where it
is or you can use a baking sheet and you
can either roll this out on the counter
you can form it with your hands or you
can just spread it out on the baking
sheet if you’re doing that lightly flow
it or grab some semolina or cornmeal and
spread that around but don’t add too
much because nobody wants like a big
bite of flour or cornmeal when they have
their Pizza okay punch your dough
down here we
go that didn’t quite fall as I wanted it
to but that’s okay okay it happens so
right now you’re going to spread your
dough out into a circle and I like to
kind of lift and Pull and press so I
don’t think you really need to use a
rolling pin at all just push it out and
it’ll keep its shape the dough has been
relaxing while it rested so you should
find it pretty easy to spread it out and
it won’t pull back and don’t worry about
it being a perfect circle no this is a
homemade pizza it can be totally
amorphous that’s
fine okay you do want to have a thicker
Edge for the crust though and if you
want you could grab some cheese tuck it
in and roll it over have a stuffed crust
the options are truly endless so do your
favorite thing form it up and it’ll be
ready to go this is the part that my
kids love the most by the way for a
classic cheese pizza go ahead and just
spoon your sauce right onto the
middle gently spread it about leave a
little border for the crust and we don’t
want our pizza to be sgy so don’t add a
lake of sauce just go ahead and spread a
nice thin
layer finish your pizza off with some
mozzarella your favorite toppings any
other cheeses you love maybe some
Fontina our pizza is ready to go into
the oven 450° f for 12 to 15 minutes or
until the crust is golden and the cheese
is melted and bubbling here you go
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give your pizza a slice and it’s ready
to
enjoy how could you send no to Pizza
it’s delicious and I love
this crisp crust that has a great chew
and is the perfect vehicle for delicious
pizza I hope you get a chance to make
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