(Picture above is BBQ Chicken Pizza)
This is the best dough you will ever make for your homemade pizza….Plus, it is so cheap to make to you will never buy store bought dough again!!
This is great for having dinner parties and entertaining !
Here is what you need.
Pizza Dough Ingredients:
- 4 Cups bread flour, plus 1/3-2/3 Cup extra for kneading (don’t use AP aka all purpose flour)
- 1 TB. kosher salt
- 1 tsp. sugar or honey
- 1 pkg. yeast (or 2 and 1/4 teaspoon of yeast) ( I buy mine by the jar)
- 1/2-1 tsp. PENZEYS FRESHLY GROUND PEPPER, to taste
- 2 TB. PASTA SPRINKLE (this is my go to seasoning!!! I love this product!)
- 2 TB. olive oil
- 1 & 1/2 Cups warm water
- 1 tsp. garlic powder (penzey’s is the best)
- One pizza stone (like from pampered chef or you can get one for a decent at a kitchen store or TJ max)
- Pizza piel
Direction for the dough:
In an electric mixer bowl, combine 4 cups flour, kosher salt, sugar or honey, yeast, pepper and seasonings.
Mix to combine with wisk. Make a well in the center. Pour the olive oil in the well and mix with just enough warm water to form a soft dough.
Funny story about the olive oil. My family every year goes to the beach for vacation and every year we go to this adorable farmers market in NC. This greek gentleman told us at his fruit stand that we had to buy this imported greek olive oil from him since it comes form greece. When I looked at the label I recognized this product since I already buy it from Trader Joes (lol) he thought he was pulling the wool over our eyes and offering it to us for a deal for 20$ when low and behold you can purchase it at Trader Joe’s for 8.99$. That said it is a good deal at TJ’s for 8.99$, but use whatever you like or you can always swap olive oil for canola oil if you don’t have olive oil on hand.
Use the dough hook from mixer and let the dough hook knead the dough on low-medium speed for about 10 minutes, adding extra flour as required as long as the dough is sticky, kneading until smooth and elastic.Place the dough in a lightly-greased bowl (use Pam or other cooking spray), cover with plastic wrap and leave in a warm place for about 1 hour or until doubled in size.
After dough has doubled you can divide the dough into four sections or let the dough rise in the refrigerator overnight and divide in the morning.
Make sure to cover well with plastic wrap if you do decide to let it rise overnight in the refrigerator. When ready to bake the dough place the oven on 500 degrees with pizza stone in the oven. Let oven preheat for an hour. The trick to a crusty dough is allowing the stone to heat very well for an hour!!! Do not miss this step.
Roll the dough out into 4 pizzas, about 10-inches in diameter.After the oven has preheated for an hour and you are ready to bake your pizzas decrease the temperature to 425 degrees.
Dust pizza piel with flour or cornmeal and place the dough on the stone let bake for 2 minutes. Watch out for the dough to puff up in the oven.
Once the dough is out of the oven use a spatula to press down any bubbles.
Place your desired toppings on pizza and bake until cheese is melted approximately 10 minutes. Don’t add too much weight in the way of toppings or too many wet ingredients.
Some of our go to favorites are egg pizza (which is above with the hot banana peppers).
This dough is great with or without cheese just add sauce and veggies to make a briar hill pizza (above) but we added cheese ……oops Traditional Pepperoni with fresh mozzarella is also a must try.
BBQ chicken above..The toppings are endless !!!!
Happy Baking |
