Homemade Pizza Dough

pizza dough in airtight containers stacked ready for the fridge.

Homemade Pizza Dough is easy to make by hand or in a stand mixer. This makes 4, 12 inch pizzas. You can also freeze this pizza dough recipe.

Course Bread

Cuisine Italian

Keyword pizza, pizza dough

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 6

Cold ferment 1

Total Time 1 21

Servings 12" pizzas

Calories 581kcal

Author Courtney

Ingredients

500 grams bread flour about 4 cups, you can also use all-purpose
109 grams 00 flour about 1 cup, or use all bread flour or all-purpose
18 grams salt 1 tablespoon
371 g warm water about 1 1/2 cups, at around 110 degrees F
1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
1 tablespoon olive oil divided

Instructions

In a large bowl combine all of the dry ingredients. In another bowl combine the yeast with the water and let sit for 5-10 minutes.
Add the wet mix to the dry mix along with 1 teaspoon of olive oil.
Hand knead the dough for about 10 minutes or use your KitchenAid Stand mixer at level 2 with the dough hook for 2 minutes. If you have a mixer that can knead for a longer period go for 6-8 minutes.
Place the dough into a lightly oiled bowl and cover with a clean kitchen cloth. Allow the dough to rest for about an hour.
Form 4 dough balls and then place them oiled into a container. Refrigerate for 24-48 hours.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator and allow the dough to rest at room temperature for 2 hours loosely covered.
Preheat your oven to 550 degrees F with your pizza stone or steel inside. Let it heat up for an hour. Do this before the dough is finished resting.
Once rested shape the dough into your desired pizza shape.
Place the pizza dough onto a pizza peel dusted with flour and then add your desired toppings.
Slide the pizza onto your pizza stone or steel and bake for 3 minutes and then rotate. Cook for another 3 minutes or until the toppings are done and crust is nicely browned on the edges.
Pull the pizza out using your pizza peel and a pair of tongs. Allow to cool on a cooling rack.
Slice, serve, and enjoy your homemade pizza.

Notes

How to freeze homemade pizza dough: If you want to freeze the dough you can cover it in a bit of olive oil and then place it into a sealed air-tight container in the fridge for one day to ferment. Then you can freeze it for up to 3 months. To use frozen pizza dough we just remove the pizza dough from the freezer and into the refrigerator the day before we plan to make pizza.

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