Store bought pizza dough is totally fine, but homemade dough is SO much better. This recipe is really easy and can be frozen for up to two months. I usually make a batch, cut it up into 4 sections, and freeze them to pull out one at a time for a quick dinner.
Yield: 8 personal pizzas/calzones, or 2 large pizzas.
Ingredients:
- 1 packet active dry yeast (I used the instant one)
- 1 1/3 cup warm water
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 3/4 cups all purpose flour
Directions:
- In a standing mixer with a dough hook attachment, add the yeast, sugar, warm water, salt and olive oil into the bowl. Let it hang out for a minute or so.
- Turn the mixer on a medium speed, and slowly add in the flour.
- Let the mixer knead the dough for about 2-3 minutes.
- Smear some olive oil on the inside of a glass bowl.
- Place the ball of dough in the bowl, and flip it around so all sides of the dough ball have olive oil on it.
- Cover the bowl with a towel and let the dough sit in a warm room for 1 hour.
- At this point the dough should have at least doubled in size. At this point, you can either roll out all your dough and make your pizzas, or you can split it and freeze some. I usually freeze it in 4 portions in plastic wrap, and then the day I want to use it I just take it out of the freezer in the morning, unwrap it, put it in a bowl, and let it come to room temp all day (it will also expand so make sure you have a bug enough bowl).
- Assemble the pizza with all of your desired toppings and bake it at 400 degrees. For thin crust, the pizza should only take 10-15 min.
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