Easy Pizza Dough
This gives you a pillowy crust with a crisp thin base
Ingredients
- 2 . 25 tsp Yeast
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- 320 ml Warm Water
- 470 grams Strong White Bread Flour
- 0 . 75 tsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Garlic infused Olive Oil plus a little more to grease a bowl
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, with dough hook attachment, place the Sugar, Yeast and Water and give is a quick mix then let sit for 10 minutes until foamy.If you have no stand mixer you can of coursedo this in a large bowl.
- Once foamy add the rest of the ingredients, the Flour, Salt & Garlic Oil and mix.This will need kneading you can use the stand mixer or your hands. You will need 10 minutes in the stand mixer or 15 by hand. The dough will still feel slightly sticky after this but that is ok.
- Place the kneaded dough in a bowl greased with Garlic Oil and allow to double in size.(Place it in a draft free warm place)
- Preheat the oven to 180°CDivide the dough in two (you can freeze one if you wish).Take a pizza tray or large baking tray and sprinkle lightly with flour or if you have any semolina. Now stretch the dough out. You want the base to be nice and thin and to get a great puffy pillowy crust I roll the edges over towards the centre.Once you have the dough shaped you can top with whatever you wish.Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden and piping hot.
Notes
Leftovers Tip
Of course this recipe makes enough dough for two large pizzas. I always freeze one of them and defrost when pizza is required.However if you find yourself with leftover pizza that you aren't just going to eat cold the how about cutting into fries and making loaded pizza fries. or cube and bake in the oven until crisp to make pizza croutons for soup or salads.