Pizza Dough

Here is a great recipe that I always use for delicious Pizza Dough! This batch will make roughly two pizza's :)

Pizza Dough

Ingredients

375 ml (1 1/2 cups) warm water

2 tsp (7g/1 sachet) dried yeast

Pinch of caster sugar

600 g (4 cups) plain flour

1 tsp salt

60 ml (1/4 cup) olive oil, plus extra for brushing

Method

Combine the water, yeast and sugar in a small bowl. Set aside for 5 minutes or until foamy. 

Combine the flour and salt in a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Add the yeast mixture and oil.

Use a round-bladed knife in a cutting motion to mix until the mixture is combined. 

Use your hands to bring the dough together in the bowl.

Brush a bowl lightly with oil. 

Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 10 minutes or until smooth and elastic. 

Place in the prepared bowl and turn to coat in oil. 

Cover with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm, draught-free place to rise for 30 minutes or until dough doubles in size.

Roll out to the size of your pizza tray.

I like to pre cook the dough for 10 minutes or so, but note it will shrink slightly if you do this. Its not essential but I find if you load the pizza up too much the dough won't cook properly :)

Look what happened last time I made the dough... its EXPLODED THROUGH THE PLASTIC hahaha!

Happy Cooking Pizza! (From scratch!)

Erica x