Here's my easy pizza dough recipe. My special tip for rapid rising dough included. There's nothing like fresh homemade pizza! This recipe will make enough for two medium pizzas.
1 cup water lukewarm
1 tbsp cooking oil
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp yeast
2 - 2/3 cup flour
If you want to really get the yeast going put half the water in a small bowl and add the yeast, sprinkle 1/8 tsp sugar on top. Put this on a stovetop if possible and blast the heat for 15 seconds. This should be enough to warm the liquid to around 30 degrees celsius, this will get the yeast active in around 5 minutes. Yeast will float up to the surface.
If you are using rapid rising yeast you can skip this step and just throw all the ingredients in a once.
Put the rest of the ingredients in a bowl and add the yeast mixture once it's active. Mix the ingredients for 5-10 minutes.
Leave the dough for 1 to 1.5 hours to rise somewhere warm. Divide into two balls, I use either flour or oil to stop the dough from sticking and then I knead and flatten it out.
Below is my second day of making it, note that it rose up much more. I left it on the pan to rise for around 20 minutes before cooking and put it on my stovetop and blasted the heat for 15 seconds. This really fluffed up the dough.
Pizza sauce
1 400 ml can tomato sauce
1 150 ml can tomato paste
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 tsp basil
1 tsp oregano
1/4 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt
The spices are optional and can be changed to your liking. The above recipe makes enough for 6-8 pizzas.
Add toppings and bake for 8-10 minutes. I like to use a toaster oven which concentrates the heat a bit more so 450 F for a toaster oven and 500 F for a normal size oven.
This dough is great for making bread sticks as well. Put the dough on the pan and allow to rise for 20 minutes, cover with oil or butter and cook for 6-8 minutes at 400 F (toaster oven), after it comes out cover with butter, garlic and parmesan cheese.
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