My Favourite Pizza Dough Food

MY FAVOURITE PIZZA DOUGH

Steps:

• Combine all of the dry ingredients in a bowl. and whisk to blend. Add the remaking ingredients to the bowl, and using a dough hook, blend the dough until everything is incorporated. Knead the dough with the hook for 5 minutes.
• Grease a large bowl. Shape the dough into a ball and place in the greased bowl. Grease the dough, cover with plastic then place in the fridge overnight. At this point, you can freeze it, well wrapped, if you like.
• Remove from the refrigerator and divide the dough into 2 or 3 parts, depending on whether you want thin or thick crust pizzas. Shape into balls and let rest for about 2 hours before baking.
• Shape the pizzas using your hands and place on parchment paper, then on the pizza pan. Add your preferred pizza sauce and top with desired toppings. *I prefer not to use too much sauce, and I like to sprinkle some italian seasoning and Parmesan cheese prior to adding the mozzarella cheese and toppings.
• Preheat the oven to 500°F If using a pizza stone, place it in the oven prior to heating the oven.
• Using the pizza pan, slide just the pizza and the parchment paper, onto the hot stone. Bake for approximately 7 minutes, or until desired colour is reached.
• To remove from the oven, slide the cooked pizza using the parchment paper, back onto the pizza pan. Let cool several minutes before slicing. Enjoy.
• *If you make a margarita pizza, put the fresh basil underneath the cheese instead of on top, the pizza is so much more flavorful. I also skip the parmesan cheese when I make the margharita pizza.
• **Try my fresh uncooked pizza sauce recipe.

PIZZA DOUGH

Steps:

• Combine the bread flour, sugar, yeast and kosher salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and combine. While the mixer is running, add the water and 2 tablespoons of the oil and beat until the dough forms into a ball. If the dough is sticky, add additional flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the dough comes together in a solid ball. If the dough is too dry, add additional water, 1 tablespoon at a time. Scrape the dough onto a lightly floured surface and gently knead into a smooth, firm ball.
• Grease a large bowl with the remaining 2 teaspoons olive oil, add the dough, cover the bowl with plastic wrap and put it in a warm area to let it double in size, about 1 hour. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide it into 2 equal pieces. Cover each with a clean kitchen towel or plastic wrap and let them rest for 10 minutes.

FAVORITE PIZZA CRUST

Steps:

• In a bowl, mix together water and sugar. Sprinkle with yeast. Allow to sit 10 minutes. Add salt, olive oil, and flour. Knead until very smooth. Divide dough in half. Roll each piece into a 12-inch circle. Place on lightly greased baking sheet and let rise 20 minutes. Flatten each and top with pizza toppings. Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes.
• If you choose to use this recipe for garlic or cinnamon bread sticks, bake untopped for 5 minutes. Remove from oven, top with margarine of choice and either garlic salt or cinnamon sugar mixture. Return to oven for about 3 minutes. Remove from oven and cut into breadsticks.

MY FAVORITE PIZZA DOUGH

Steps:

• Mix flour sugar salt yeast.
• Add water.
• Mix dough. It should be slightly sticky, and a little rough looking.
• Pour oil onto the dough ball, coating it on all sides using fingers or spatula.
• Place dough back in bowl.
• Let dough rise at least 1 hour at room temperature if needed immediately, otherwise let it rise for 1/2 hour at room temperature and then refrigerate for up to 24 hours. Remove from refrigerator for an hour before making pizza.
• Make pizzas and cook on a hot pizza stone.

MY VERY FAVORITE PIZZA DOUGH

Steps:

• Mix yeast and sugar and dissolve in warm water. Let stand for about 5 minutes. Add in salt, oil and oat bran, if desired.
• Mix in 4 1/2 cups of flour. Then continue to add additional flour (up to 6 cups) and knead until dough is smooth and elastic (I use my Kitchenaid with the dough hook attached--dough should clean the side of the bowl).
• Place into a greased bowl, turning once, cover and allow to rise until dough is doubled in bulk.
• Prepare 2 large (14 inch or larger) pizza pans by coating them with cooking spray and sprinkling lightly with cornmeal.
• Punch down and roll dough to fit 2 large pizza pans.
• Top as desired.
• For a crust that is crispy on the bottom, place pizza on the bottom rack in a cold oven, set the oven for 500° and bake for about 20 minutes or if the oven is already hot, bake at 500° for 10-15 minutes (watch closely).