Who doesn’t love a great pizza? There’s just something about a hot, golden brown pizza crust topped with gooey mozzarella cheese all of your favorite toppings. This easy homemade pizza dough recipe has been my go-to for years, and it will bring your family pizza night to the next level!
For a long time, pizza night meant that I opted for the convenience of takeout, even though it was expensive and didn’t even begin to compare to the taste of my own homemade pizza. But when I got my KitchenAid stand mixer for Christmas a couple years ago, everything changed.
The dough hook attachment on the stand mixer makes it super simple to whip up all sorts of breads and dough recipes, so there’s no excuse not to make my own pizza dough anymore! In fact, pizza dough was the first thing I made with my fancy new stand mixer, and I’ve never looked back. 🙂
Step-By-Step Homemade Pizza Dough
Start by gathering a few basic ingredients: all purpose flour (or you can opt for a fancy flour specifically for pizza, but it’s not necessary), yeast, salt, water and a little olive oil.
Add one tablespoon of active dry yeast to two cups of warm water and let that proof for about 10 minutes while you prepare the other handful of ingredients.
Fit your stand mixer with the dough hook attachment and mix the water with the all purpose flour and the salt. I run the mixer on the second setting (low speed) and knead the dough until mixed well. Then remove the bowl from the stand mixer, cover with a kitchen towel or plastic wrap, and let it rest for 20 minutes at room temperature. And that’s it! Your dough ball is ready to be formed into pizza crust.
Once the dough has a little time to rest, form it into a big ball and then cut that ball in half. Did I mention this recipe makes enough dough for two pizzas? Because it does. Booya. You can cook both pizzas at once or freeze or refrigerate one ball of dough to use later.
When you’re ready to use your dough, just roll your dough ball out onto a lightly floured surface and use a rolling pin to flatten it out to about ¼-inch thick. Then grease a baking sheet or pizza pan with a little bit of olive oil so the dough doesn’t stick (this is really important, as we learned when we missed this step once), and then press your dough onto the baking sheet, using your fingers to form the crust around the edge.
At this point, the pizza crust is ready to be topped with your favorite toppings (or whatever you have on hand!) Our personal household favorite pizza toppings are Ham and Pineapple (super easy because I always keep some jars of home-canned pineapple on hand), and Margherita with fresh tomatoes and basil (pictured below). But really, you can’t go wrong with a good quality pizza sauce (or even tomato sauce), your favorite toppings, and delicious mozzarella cheese.
So without further ado, I present to you the easiest, yummiest, most perfect pizza dough recipe I have ever used. And the best part is, you can top it with whatever you have laying around. I’m excited to try all sorts of different topping combinations on our future pizzas. BBQ chicken pizza, anyone?
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Perfect Pizza Dough Recipe
Ingredients
- 5 cups of all purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp Active Dry Yeast
- 2 cups warm water
- 1 Tbsp salt
- 1 tsp olive oil
Instructions
- Mix active dry yeast with warm water and let it proof for 10 minutes.
- Fit stand mixer with dough hook, then mix about half of the flour with water/yeast mixture in the bowl of a stand mixer. Run the mixer on low speed, adding the salt and remaining flour. Allow dough hook to knead dough until smooth.
- Remove bowl, cover with a kitchen towel or plastic wrap, and let stand for 20 min. at room temperature
- On a lightly floured surface, form dough ball and cut in half, forming each piece into a smaller ball of dough. (You can either make both pizzas right away or cover and refrigerate one dough ball for up to 24 hours before using).
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Turn one dough ball out on lightly floured surface and use a rolling pin to roll dough into a roughly ¼ inch thick pizza crust.
- Rub a little bit of olive oil on a baking sheet or pizza pan to prevent dough from sticking. Place dough on baking sheet and use your fingers to press the edge of the dough to form a crust.
- Top pizza crust with your favorite toppings and bake at 400°F for 20 minutes. Serve and enjoy the best homemade pizza you've ever had!
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