Name: Pizza dough
Prep time: 25 min
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 cups all purpose (AP) flour; 1 1/4 cup water; 3 tablespoons olive oil; 1 1/2 tablespoon instant yeast for savory dishes (instant dry yeast); 2 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoon sugar

There’s nothing quite like the smell of freshly baked pizza wafting through the kitchen. While ordering pizza is easy, making your own dough at home is both rewarding and surprisingly simple. With just a handful of pantry ingredients, you can create a dough that’s soft on the inside, slightly crisp on the outside, and perfect for any topping you love.
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced home cook, this recipe will become your go-to base for creating delicious, pizzeria-style pizza at home.

DifficultyEasy
CostCheap
Preparation time25 Minutes
Serving4
CuisineItalian
SeasonalityEvergreen

Ingredients

4 cups all purpose (AP) flour

1¹/₄ cup water

3 tablespoons olive oil

1¹/₂ tablespoon instant yeast for savory dishes (instant dry yeast)

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon sugar

523,02 Kcal

calories per serving

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Power 523,02 (Kcal)
Carbohydrates 92,47 (g) of which sugars 3,56 (g)
Proteins 14,38 (g)
Fat 12,50 (g) of which saturated 1,78 (g)of which unsaturated 10,37 (g)
Fibers 3,63 (g)
Sodium 975,14 (mg)

Indicative values for a portion of 221 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA^* and FoodData Central^** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.

^* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ^** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

Tools

1 Bowl

1 Brush

1 Pastry board or work surface

Steps

Place 4 cups of flour in a bowl with 1 teaspoon of sugar and 3 tablespoons of olive oil. Start kneading slowly, then add 1 and a half tablespoon instant dry yeast and 1 and 1/4 cup of water.

Knead the dough until it becomes firmer, then transfer it to a pastry board, add 2 teaspoons of salt and continue kneading for a few more minutes. The finished dough should be smooth and homogeneous.

Once it’s ready, flour your work surface and roll out the dough, then transfer it to a pizza baking pan previously greased with a drizzle of oil. Your pizza base is ready!

Preheat the oven to 400 F, pour the tomato sauce on the pizza, a drizzle of oil, basil or oregano and mozzarella (or vegan cheese), and bake the pizza for about 15 minutes (adjust according to your oven and season it according to your personal tastes).

Variations

Instant pizza leavening allows you to prepare pizza dough in a short time.

Pizza made with instant yeast offers the same options as traditional italian pizza made with sourdough or brewer’s yeast: grilled vegetables, artichokes, olives; salmon, shrimp, cheeses, cured meats, and so on, if not vegan. You decide what toppings to use on your pizza!