How to make your own dough to make pizza

Posted by Kevin Quinlan on February 1, 2009 at 4:00 am · Under Cook and Store Food

Pizza is a fun family food that is great for lunch or dinner, hot or cold. It does not take long to make either if you have your pizza dough prepared a head of time. Here are the basics to making your own homemade pizza dough.First, ingredients. You will need the following to get started:

1 and ¼ ounce – Active Dry Yeast
1 and ½ cup – Water
1 and ½ teaspoon – Salt
2 tablespoons – Olive oil
1 tablespoon – Sugar
You should also have flour and extra olive oil on hand

Once you have your ingredients it is time to make your own pizza dough! First thing you need to do it mix your water, sugar and yeast in a large bowl. Stirring gently to mix in all of the sugar and yeast until they are dissolved. Let the mixture sit for a few minutes and then add in your salt, olive oil and flour to the mix and again, mix gently until all of the ingredients have been dissolved.

Using your hands, work the mixture to ensure all of the ingredients are well blended and mixed. You want to be sure all of the moisture is absorbed and the end result is a solid blob of mass.

Take the dough out now and place it on a floured surface. Begin to fold it over on itself again and again to work out any air in the dough so that when it comes time to cook it rises properly. Eventually the ball will seem smoother and should seem elastic.

Apply your olive oil to the dough and put it back into the mixing bowl you used earlier. Place a cover on the bowl and let it sit for sixty to seventy five minutes. During that time the dough will rise.

Once the time is up, take the dough out and split it in half using a knife. Pat down each half to remove any air in them. At this point you are done with your own homemade pizza dough. Now it is time to add the ingredients you like and get cooking with it!