Homemade Pizza and Dough Recipe
Skip the delivery! Start making your own crust and enjoying making your homemade pizza completely customizable to what you have on hand and love to eat.
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
For the Crust
- 1 cup warm water (around 110°F)
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 Tbsp active yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 2-2½ cups all-purpose flour
For the Pizza
- Sauce
- Shredded cheese
- Pre-cooked meat
- Veggies
Instructions
To Make the Crust
- Preheat oven to 450°F. Grease a pizza pan or cookie sheet and set to the side.
- Mix together sugar, yeast and water and let that proof for 5 minutes until it's nice and bubbly. (If you're using instant yeast, skip the proofing step and just mix it all together!)
- Add olive oil to the mix and stir well.
- Add 2 cups of flour and salt and mix together with a spatula until a ball starts to form. Add more flour as needed, 1 tbsp at a time, until you have a slightly sticky dough ball. (*See notes if you plan to freeze the dough.)
- Transfer to a floured surface and knead into a smooth dough. You can add up to half a cup of extra flour if needed.
- Roll dough into desired shape and transfer to your greased pan.
- Gently use a fork to prick the dough all the way around, being careful not to poke it all the way through the crust.
- Bake the dough on the lowest rack of oven for 5 minutes, then remove. Poke any air bubbles with a fork.
To Make the Pizza
- Add pizza sauce, cheese and toppings of your choice. (If you don't like crispy toppings, add even more cheese on top of your toppings.)
- Bake on the lower rack of oven for 15-20 minutes or until the crust looks crispy and is slightly brown. (Keep an eye on it, it goes from slightly brown to overdone quickly!)
- Let sit for 5-10 minutes before cutting. Enjoy!
Notes
To freeze your dough, get it to the sticky ball state. Lightly cover in oil and freeze in an air-tight freezer bag. Sit in the refrigerator overnight to thaw, then begin at Step 5 to finish making your pizza!