Easy Pizza Dough Recipe - Crazy Espresso

Another benefit of making homemade dough is that you can choose exactly how you want each pizza. Maybe you like pizza with a thick, fluffy crust, but your partner prefers thin-crust pizzas. There’s no need to argue when you make homemade dough.

Although this recipe is perfect for making a large 40cm pizza with a medium-thick crust, we prefer to make individual pizzas. We usually get about five 15cm individual pizzas. If you make thinner pizzas, you’ll likely get more. Simply stretch the dough, either by hand or with a rolling pin, to your desired thickness.

How to Make Easy Pizza Dough Recipe?

Perhaps it’s because I don’t like having to help my son eat pizza that I like to make pizzas that are somewhat crispy and hold their shape. I don’t like soggy pizzas that bend and break and have to be eaten with a fork.

To ensure a crispy pizza crust, this recipe uses a process where the dough is pre-baked for a few minutes before adding the toppings. If you make the crust very thin, you should adjust the pre-baking time (decrease it) to prevent it from overcooking.

You can also reduce the initial pre-baking time (or eliminate it altogether) if you prefer a softer pizza crust. (You would likely need to slightly increase the baking time with the toppings to compensate.)

Another thing that helps you get a crispy crust is using a pizza stone. Pizza stones should be preheated at the same time as your oven. Putting a cold pizza stone in a hot oven could cause it to crack. I like to use a pizza stone on the bottom rack of the oven and use the bottom heat setting. Heating from below is another way to ensure you don’t end up with a soggy crust.

In just over half an hour, you can use this quick and easy pizza dough recipe to make delicious pizzas just the way you like them.

Easy and Quick Pizza Dough Recipe

Preparation time: 15minutes minutes
Cooking time: 20minutes minutes
Total Time: 35minutes minutes
Servings: 15cm pizzas
Calories: 276 kcal

Ingredients

2 1/4 teaspoons of dried baker’s yeast, 1 packet or half a cube of fresh yeast.
1 cup of hot water
2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon of honey
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of salt

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 220ºC / 430ºF. If you are using a pizza stone, let it preheat in the oven.
Mix the warm water and the yeast.
Mix all the ingredients with the water and yeast for several minutes in a stand mixer with the dough hook, if you have one. If not, knead it by hand for several minutes.
Form the dough into a ball and let it rest for 8-10 minutes.
Roll out the dough into the desired shape. I usually make a round pizza the size of my pizza stone, but you can also make several individual pizzas or one large rectangular pizza. Leave the edges slightly thicker than the center, forming the crust. To prevent sticking, grease your baking trays with oil, or if you’re using a pizza stone, sprinkle it with coarse cornmeal before placing the pizza dough on top.
Brush the dough with olive oil. You can also sprinkle some aromatic herbs on top if you like.
Bake the dough for about 8-10 minutes.
Remove the partially cooked dough and cover it with sauce, cheese, and other ingredients.
Bake it for another 10-12 minutes, or until the pizza crust is golden brown.

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