Easy Homemade Pizza Dough
By Elizabeth Ciobanu ·
With only five ingredients, this pizza dough is super simple and makes the perfect base for any pizza you can dream up!
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- 10 min
- Total
- 1 hr 20 min
- Makes
- 2 pizza crusts
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups warm water
- 2 teaspoons yeast, 1 packet
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Pour warm water in bowl of a stand mixer or other large bowl.
- Add yeast and sugar to the warm water. Stir and let sit for 5 minutes.
- Add salt and flour.
- Mix using the dough hook attachment of a stand mixer for 4 minutes (or knead by hand for 4 minutes).
- Divide the dough into two equal portions and shape into 2 smooth balls.
- Place in 2 oiled containers and cover. Let rise for at least 1 hour (up to 4 hours on the counter).
- Preheat oven (with a pizza stone placed inside) to 500°F.
- Gently scrape a well-risen dough ball onto a lightly floured surface and shape into a round, flat pizza crust, leaving the edges a bit thicker.
- Move round dough to a square piece of parchment paper.
- Add sauce and toppings of your choice.
- Slide the finished pizza on parchment paper onto a pizza peel (or the back of a round pizza pan) and put it in the oven, sliding it onto the pizza stone. (If you don't have a pizza stone, cook directly on the pizza pan.)
- Cook for 10 minutes (slightly longer if you have a lot of wet toppings).
- Slide out of the oven using the pizza peel or pizza pan.
- Slice immediately using a rolling pizza cutter and let cool for 3-4 minutes before serving.
Notes
- You can add 1 tablespoon of olive oil to the recipe if desired. I never noticed any difference in flavor or texture when leaving it out.
- You can shape the dough rounds in the air rather than on the countertop (this is how I do it), but it yields a less uniform result and thinner crust in the center.