Easy Homemade Pizza Dough [Video]
This is the best pizza dough recipe ever. It’s easy to make with 5 ingredients and doesn’t need to rise – which means you can have a fresh hot homemade pizza on the table in 30 minutes. Follow my step-by-step photos and video to learn how to make pizza dough at home!
Servings: 12 in a 14″ Pizza
Equipment
- glass batter bowl
- Measuring spoons
- Measuring cups
- Rolling Pin
- pizza stone
- Pizza Peel
- Pizza scissors
Ingredients
- 1 cup warm water (105℉)
- 1 Tbsp granulated sugar (see note)
- 1 Tbsp active dry yeast
- 1 Tbsp olive oil (see note)
- 2 to 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour (see note)
- 1 tsp fine sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 500℉ (260℃). Put a pizza stone in the oven while it preheats, and let it warm at 500℉ for at least 10 minutes. (see note)
Make the Pizza Dough
- Combine warm water, yeast and sugar in a large mixing bowl and stir to combine.
- Let mixture sit for 5 minutes, or until it becomes frothy and bubbles form.
- Gently stir in olive oil.
- Add 2 cups of flour and salt and mix with a spatula until a ball begins to form (dough will still be slightly sticky). Add more flour as needed to form a dough ball.
- Transfer to a floured surface and knead into a smooth dough, adding up to ½ cup extra flour if needed.
- Optional. if desired, cover the bowl with a damp tea towel and let it rise for 10 minutes or up to 1 hour.
Assemble the Pizza
- Roll the dough into your desired shape, about a ¼ inch thick, or your own personal preference. You can make it extra-thin (with a shorter baking time), or thick.Place it on a piece of parchment paper.
- Add pizza sauce, cheese and toppings of choice.
Bake The Pizza
- Use a pizza peel to transfer the pizza to the preheated pizza stone in the oven.
- Bake on the preheated pizza stone for 11-14 minutes, or until the bottom of the crust is golden brown.
- Remove the pizza from the oven with the pizza peel and put it on a wire rack to cool for at 5-10 minutes before cutting and serving.
Notes
No Pizza Stone? No problem.
You can preheat the pizza pan or baking pan you will be cooking the pizza on in the oven instead of the stone. You will need to bake the pizza slightly longer without a stone.
Ingredient Substitutions
- All-purpose flour. you can replace up to ½ cup flour with whole wheat flour. You can also use a 1:1 gluten-free all-purpose baking flour for a gluten-free pizza crust.
- Sugar. honey is a great substitute for sugar.
- Olive oil. Any neutral tasting oil works perfectly in this recipe, I suggest olive oil, avocado oil or canola oil.
